Wake On Lan

[DeepBlueC]

I see a lot of promise for this program. I am specifically interested in the WakeOnLan capability. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get it to work 100% yet. This is what happens..

- My PC is off
- I select emulation mode on the mvpmc screen.
- It tries to connect to the server 30 times and fails (b/c my PC is booting)
- I wait a moment and click emulation mode again
- This time it connects to the server and the GBPVR screen comes back.
- Thats all I get. GBPVR is completely unresponsive after that. I can see the light on the media mvp blinking indicating that it is receiving IR signals but nothing happens.

Have other people gotten this working? Is it a known issue. If you require me to do any further testing please let me know.

I would love to see this feature work..

[mvallevand]

I see a lot of promise for this program. I am specifically interested in the WakeOnLan capability. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get it to work 100% yet. This is what happens..

- My PC is off
- I select emulation mode on the mvpmc screen.
- It tries to connect to the server 30 times and fails (b/c my PC is booting)
- I wait a moment and click emulation mode again
- This time it connects to the server and the GBPVR screen comes back.
- Thats all I get. GBPVR is completely unresponsive after that. I can see the light on the media mvp blinking indicating that it is receiving IR signals but nothing happens.

Have other people gotten this working? Is it a known issue. If you require me to do any further testing please let me know.

I would love to see this feature work..

The good news is that WOL works. Let's try and diagnose the bad news..

- don't hit any keys when gbpvr first shows up there is a glitch if you hit too fast.
- make sure you have the latest version of gbpvr
- use the gbpvr config program to configure 2 or more servers to autostart
- when it becomes unresponsive what does go back key combination do?
- try powering off during the 30 seconds and then going back to emulation mode.

Also I'd like to see the gbpvr logs.

Note that I'm throwing out lots of things to get some info since I think I will be able to get you into emulation mode easily once I can find the prblem. My gbpvr system doesn't wol properly so I can't test it.

Also I'm going to make the timeout value configurable, it really was a guess based on a couple of email tests here when emulation mode wasn't usable.

Martin

[DeepBlueC]

Sorry about the slow response...

- don't hit any keys when gbpvr first shows up there is a glitch if you hit too fast.

I waited 5 minutes before pressing any other remote buttons. Same problem.

- make sure you have the latest version of gbpvr

I do

- use the gbpvr config program to configure 2 or more servers to autostart

I have 2 MediaMVPs and 2 servers started.

- when it becomes unresponsive what does go back key combination do?

nothing- I need to restart the MVP.

- try powering off during the 30 seconds and then going back to emulation mode.

Power off during the connect attempts?

Also I'd like to see the gbpvr logs.

I attached them

[mvallevand]

Sorry about the slow response...


I waited 5 minutes before pressing any other remote buttons. Same problem.

I do

I have 2 MediaMVPs and 2 servers started.

nothing- I need to restart the MVP.

Power off during the connect attempts?


I attached them

What I'm really trying to determine if you are trying to connect to gbpvr before it is ready to receive connections. Assuming gbpvr is in your startup you will have to determine what the real time is

One of the test is power off the mvp (via remote) just after the thirty second timer starts. This would issue the WOL but completely remove emulation mode. Once you are sure your PC is up it should be like starting from a dongle boot.

For the logs I guess I need verbose logging turned on, I'm not seeing the connection attempt, or it is connecting before gbpvr is really ready.

Thanks for the feedback, that reply was plenty fast enough.

Martin

[DeepBlueC]

I tried shutting off the MVP after I entered emulation mode. I checked my PC and it was rebooting. I waited until it had rebooted then restarted the MVP and entered emulation mode.

It worked! GBPVR was responsive.

I am working on getting some logs for you..

[cgsample]

Please explain "emulation mode". I just purchased a MediaMVP and was wondering how to wake up my hibernating GBPVR server?

[mvallevand]

Please explain "emulation mode". I just purchased a MediaMVP and was wondering how to wake up my hibernating GBPVR server?

Emulation mode is a part of an alterative MediaMVP client to the standard Hauppauge client (dongle) that is recommended for use with GBPVR. There is an earlier thread in this forum on Introducing mvpmc that provides a little bit more information.

My recommendation to you as a new user it to get comfortable with the standard configuration of GBPBVR and then look at mvpmc and emulation mode should you need any of its features. mvpmc will wake up your GBPVR provided you have the proper network card and motherboard, but it still not as stable as the Hauppauge client and I wouldn't want you to get the wrong impression about GBPVR.

With the feedback I've been receiving on this forum I am increasingly optimistic that one day mvpmc will be the better alternative, but there are growing pains right now.

Martin

[OscarL]

Hello,
Has anyone got wake-on-lan to work stable. For me, I can get the GBPVR server to wake up from the MVP alright but it will not always start the client on the MVP. Sometimes a reboot of the MVP (from the mvpmc gui) will help but not always.
But the good thing is that the wake-on-lan seems to work properly all the time.
Is there anything I can do to help in debugging this? In that case I will be happy to try to support.

Regards
Oscar

[mvallevand]

Is there anything I can do to help in debugging this? In that case I will be happy to try to support.

My comments in message 2 would apply here is well. My instinct tells me you are partially connecting to gbpvr while it initializes, and I'm guessing that the mvp locating service in gbpvr is starting a little bit before gbpvr can really accept connections.

In my next alpha dongle I will lower the connect time to 10 seconds. This way you can manually determine the correct time to attempt a restart after a reboot. In theory this should not require a reboot, I'm surprised that the power off doesn't work. I'll look and see I might have a retry that is spinning too fast.

Thanks for the feedback.

Martin

[OscarL]

Hi,
Still trying to get wake on lan to work stable. What is the sequence when starting Emulation mode?
Is the WOL command sent first, followed by 10 repeteated trials to contact the server.
Is the WOL command sent every time i enter emulation mode?.
I am just trying to understand this as it seems as if some times I can not wake the server up.