Wont wake up for epg update

[sub]

The latest version of GB-PVR will start EPG updates within a couple of minutes or waking, so it shouldnt be an issue now.

[Pneumoped]

...Try increasing the Idle time to hibernate, I find that it takes about 8 minutes for things to start coming through, so if you set to hibernate after 5 minutes of inactivity it will appear that the EPG update is not happening (other than in the GBPVR logs)

I just got my GBPVR working this past weekend and now I'm working on the "waking" feature. Where is the setting for "idle time to hibernate"? Is this a GBPVR setting? If so, how do I change it?

One other question - will GBPVR wake an WinXP box from both "Standby" and "Hibernation"?

Thanks in advance,
pneumoped

[andlju]

Where is the setting for "idle time to hibernate"? Is this a GBPVR setting? If so, how do I change it?

No, you simply use the windows setting (from Display Settings->Screen saver)

One other question - will GBPVR wake an WinXP box from both "Standby" and "Hibernation"?

Yes.

[Pneumoped]

No, you simply use the windows setting (from Display Settings->Screen saver)

Great - I found it fine. I set my idle time to 45 min. I also figured out why my machine was not waking at all. I needed to change my BIOS setting under power management to: NIC = ON.

Next question: if my idle time to hibernation is 45 min, and GBPVR wakes the machine to record a 2 hour show, will the recording activity count towards "activity" so that it will not hibernate during recording?

Thanks,
pneumoped

[stefan]

Next question: if my idle time to hibernation is 45 min, and GBPVR wakes the machine to record a 2 hour show, will the recording activity count towards "activity" so that it will not hibernate during recording?

Yes. It will go to sleep at earliest 45 minutes after recording ends. If you have comskip or any other post processing going on, it will go to sleep 45 minutes after all of those post processings are done.

[Cape-City]

if U want to go for sure use this :

http://www.bitkiller.com/index.php?url=hibernateatidle

I use this programm and its working very well. u can define 3 ways of idle
detection.

when i used the win xp internal standby after 30 minutes idle time, he was
standbying the machine after 30 minutes, i was just hearing mp3 and
my cpu was about 40% of load. i figured out that my machine only checks
if there was no mouse or keyboard action the last 30 minutes ...

[Pneumoped]

Here is another question about hibernation that does not seem to have anything to do with GBPVR:

Under control panel, power options, advanced tab, I set the "power button" on my computer to hibernate so that I can force it to hibernate sooner than the set idle time - say for example when I'm done using it and ready to go to bed.

However, if I use the power button, it hibernates just fine but then wakes up after about 5 minutes or so.

If I let the computer hibernate on its own, based on the idle time setting, then it will stay asleep properly until GBPVR wakes it.

Further, if I push the power button once and it sleeps, then wakes in 5 minutes, if I push the power button a second time, then it seems to stay asleep properly until GBPVR wakes it.

I do not have any other scheduled tasks other than GBPVR.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Pneumoped

[Ambro]

if U want to go for sure use this :

http://www.bitkiller.com/index.php?url=hibernateatidle
...

Seems to only work with German operating systems (from my limited translation skills)

[Cape-City]

U`re right - i had overread that ... but there exist another program of that kind ...

http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/WinOFF.php

That one should work with the english version of windows ...

P.S. Funny - Hibernate@Idle only works with german windows, but the program
frontend is completly in english ... ?!? Dont have to understand this

Cape-City

[Ambro]

P.S. Funny - Hibernate@Idle only works with german windows, but the program
frontend is completly in english ... ?!? Dont have to understand this

Those crazy Germans !