Standby confirmation if recording in progress

[dazzyb2k3]

The other night I was mucking around with the PC trying to sort out some standby issues (and subsequently tuning the machine on and off a lot) but completely forgot that I had a recoding in progress. Obviously I ended up with a completely trashed recording and while accepting that I was completely stupid I wondered how nice it would have been if GBPVR came up with something like "There is a recording in progress, are you sure you want to standby?" Thus I would have resisted the temptation to fiddle and saved myself a subsequent heap of greif from the wife!!

I wouldn't have thought this would be too difficult to impliment - but what do I know - this is a bloke that shuts his machine down 20 times when it's recording

Just another suggestion for the ever increasing melting pot.

[rob11252]

The other night I was mucking around with the PC trying to sort out some standby issues (and subsequently tuning the machine on and off a lot) but completely forgot that I had a recoding in progress. Obviously I ended up with a completely trashed recording and while accepting that I was completely stupid I wondered how nice it would have been if GBPVR came up with something like "There is a recording in progress, are you sure you want to standby?"

This 2.5 years old request never got any response.
And I am surprised this feature has not been implemented yet. I and my family members have put computer in standby while it was recording many times and I am sure it happened to all of you. Would be great if recording service would disable standby and hibernate function when recording is in progress and enable it afterwards. As a curtesy it may also display message "Recording in progress" on the screen. Again this has nothing to do with PVRX2, GBPVR, this would be Recording Service function.

It would surely prevent many "<choose your own expletive>, I did it again" moments.

[sub]

This 2.5 years old request never got any response.
And I am surprised this feature has not been implemented yet.

I've never done it myself, so its not a very high priority in my book. Its a reasonable request, but there always seems to be more important stuff needing to be implemented.

[rob11252]

Well, my only hope is that this time around enough people respond and it will elevate the priority of this request in your book.

Hello, anybody there!?????

[martint123]

I've done it plenty of times myself in the past, but now try to remember to look at the status bar to see if it is recording.

I can't see it being easy intercepting Windows standby/hibernate buttons, even more difficult stopping the power switch.

[K.S.]

hello back, i'm here. ain't that easy as you like it. if sub really takes the time needed, he will have to put some brains to this. how should it behave? should the recording service prevent shutdown/standby/hibernate/restart? or should the app just disable the options in the system menu? should he also disable EPG update at the same time? what should happen when the user closes the app & shutdown/standby/... via windows or some other way (psshutdown / hibernator / etc...)?

[Etacovda]

yep, would be nice. Ideally the whole standby system for GBPVR would be nice to be looked at, as for some reason when im running the front end my system doesnt really like going into standby often. I guess a lot of people have this problem + because everyones sysem is different the issues are hard to track.

[dazzyb2k3]

hehe, got quite a shock to see this one ressurected

This is still a situation my family seems stupidy prone to (myself included!). All it would need is a user confirmation before the recording process is interrupted or somthing like 'recording service stopping in x seconds - press any key to cancel'

I'm sure it's not as easy as it sounds but nice to see i'm not the only one who has done this :p

[rob11252]

hello back, i'm here. ain't that easy as you like it. if sub really takes the time needed, he will have to put some brains to this. how should it behave? should the recording service prevent shutdown/standby/hibernate/restart? or should the app just disable the options in the system menu? should he also disable EPG update at the same time? what should happen when the user closes the app & shutdown/standby/... via windows or some other way (psshutdown / hibernator / etc...)?

I think you underestimate sub. He came up with the way so Recording Service will wake the computer up before scheduled recordings and it works perfectly. But I really don't know. You would have to ask the expert.

But here is what I found when discussing recently Slimm GB-PVR with Mister Slimm http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=35079:

There is a free application called Wakeup from http://noeld.com/. It is a small 276kb exe, it doesn't require installation. I started it up and tried to put my comp to standby from my remote, from PVRX2, from start button, even from Windows Task Manager window. It prevented all attempts. The wakeup.exe does not prevent shutdown and I am sure that is by design. Once you close it, everything goes back to normal.
So, somebody figured it out and it works. What windows function does it call, I don't know, but I believe wouldn't be difficult for sub to find out.

[sub]

There is a free application called Wakeup from http://noeld.com/. It is a small 276kb exe, it doesn't require installation. I started it up and tried to put my comp to standby from my remote, from PVRX2, from start button, even from Windows Task Manager window. It prevented all attempts. The wakeup.exe does not prevent shutdown and I am sure that is by design. Once you close it, everything goes back to normal.
So, somebody figured it out and it works. What windows function does it call, I don't know, but I believe wouldn't be difficult for sub to find out.

Its unlikely I'd bother implementing something like this directly in GB-PVR. At most you'd probably get a warning if you try to use the sleep function from the GB-PVR system screen while recording.

There is nothing stopping you from rolling your own solution though, using that utility and the ParallelProcessing.bat/PostProcessing.bat files.