Failed: Recording service not running at recording time

[madbrain]

I setup NextPVR 5 on friday night. I made sure everything worked properly including comskip.
The only thing I didn't test was the automatic wakeup. And of course, that didn't work . None of my scheduled recordings went through.
I checked the Windows event viewer, and the machine never woke up on 1/10, the day the recording was supposed to take place.

I never had this problem with NextPVR 4 on the same system previously. What could be causing this ? And how do I fix it ?

Excerpt from nrecord logs on 1/9

2021-01-09 02:21:26.052 [DEBUG][9] Reloading recording schedule
2021-01-09 02:21:26.054 [DEBUG][9] [KPIX 5 News at 11pm] at 1/9/2021 11:00 PM
2021-01-09 02:21:26.055 [DEBUG][9] Requesting wake up for 'RecordingOID868' [KPIX 5 News at 11pm] at 1/9/2021 10:57 PM
2021-01-09 02:21:26.055 [DEBUG][9] [NCIS: Los Angeles] at 1/10/2021 8:00 PM
2021-01-09 02:21:26.055 [DEBUG][9] Requesting wake up for 'RecordingOID864' [NCIS: Los Angeles] at 1/10/2021 7:57 PM
2021-01-09 02:21:26.055 [DEBUG][9] [NCIS: New Orleans] at 1/10/2021 9:00 PM
2021-01-09 02:21:26.055 [DEBUG][9] Requesting wake up for 'RecordingOID865' [NCIS: New Orleans] at 1/10/2021 8:57 PM
2021-01-09 02:21:26.055 [DEBUG][9] [KPIX 5 News at 11pm] at 1/10/2021 11:00 PM
2021-01-09 02:21:26.055 [DEBUG][9] Requesting wake up for 'RecordingOID869' [KPIX 5 News at 11pm] at 1/10/2021 10:57 PM

Unfortunately the machine never woke up on 1/10 at all and all recordings were missed.

I have tried scheduling more recordings and putting the machine to sleep, and it still never wakes up for any of them.

[Graham]

I have tried scheduling more recordings and putting the machine to sleep, and it still never wakes up for any of them.

Did you see this ... https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/get-help

The forum police might be along soon to discuss your use of log snippets ...

My understanding is that nothing has changed in V5 with regard to NextPVR waking a Windows machine for recordings.

What does the Windows Event Viewer say at or about the time that the machine should have woken? (yeah ... I know it will say nothing if the machine didn't wake ... but just in case!)

What does ... powercfg -waketimers ... say (in a Command Prompt run as Administrator) ... after NextPVR has told Windows to wake the machine?

In short ... I cannot recall a case where wake issues has been with NextPVR ... it always turns out to be a Windows thing or a BIOS thing or some other thing.

[madbrain]

This problem went away on its own after a reboot somehow.

However, I now have the opposite problem : the system never goes to sleep on its own anymore.

[Graham]

However, I now have the opposite problem : the system never goes to sleep on its own anymore.

The ... powercfg ... command includes the options ...

/LASTWAKE          Reports information about what woke the system from the last sleep transition.
/WAKETIMERS        Enumerates active wake timers.
/REQUESTS          Enumerates application and driver Power Requests.

On some, but not all, of my machines .... A component of the Windows Update Service keeps machines awake.

[madbrain]

Yes, I know about powercfg .
On my system, it's not the Windows update service that keeps the machine awake. It's "Legacy kernel driver". And that goes away if I stop the NextPVR service.

See
https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=62339