Hibernator with GBPVR open

[nbarsley]

Hi,
I cannot get the windows screensaver to run with GBPVR open. So I cannot get hiberntor to correcly hibernate my computer with GBPVR open. If I close GBPVR and just have the recording service open everything hibernator and the windows screensaver works just fine. Does anyone else have this problem? Are there any fixes? I would like to have the application open when I wake from hibernation. I've tried other applications like Shutter but I cannot get them to work correctly, they always go to hibernate when I'm listening to music. Help please!!

[HtV]

You could use gbpvrwake.exe + wake.cmd to start gbpvr.exe when your system wakes up from hibernate. You could start reading here:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...0+wake.cmd

[gEd]

Hibernator works fine for me but I don;t have the screen saver option ticked in the hibernator config screen. delay time is 1200 secs.

upon restart, I still find it necessary to close and restart, gbpvr, ir.exe and the recording service using either the method mentioned by HtV or more recently via an autoit script that I put together.

maybe you have some plugins that are preventing hibernator from activating. stockupdate, weather etc.

I assume you profiled hibernator whilst gbpvr was running?

[Smoker]

Ca you get it to work without gbpvr running ?

[gEd]

Yep, it works fine without gbpvr running. I had windows screen saver timeout set to 5 mins and hibernator timeout set to 300sec.

btw: I'm now out of town until next friday

[nbarsley]

Ok so I found a lame workaround to the problem.

I created a scheduled task to wake from hibernate m-f from 5pm-11:30pm (as I work during the day). It closes gbpvr at 11:30 so hibernator can start working again.

But I couldnt get scheduled tasks to run when the computor wakes (when I actually press the power button). So I set up a batch script that will be run by Hibernator when the computer wakes. The batch file works in the background and opens gbpvr, waits for 3 hours and then closes gbpvr, allowing hibernator to start working again.

Its lame because there is a set amount of time before gbpvr closes automatically. I need to set up a message prompt when gbpvr is about to close... but I dont know how to do that.

[Obsidian]

Hi there

I'm experimenting with The Hibernator, and I've found this same problem- I cannot get the windows screensaver to work at all with GB-PVR running. It is not to do with thresholds, but that windows is not allowing any screensavers to run. I assume that this is a setting somewhere in the program, in the same way that a screensaver will never run while you are playing a full screen game for example.

Does anyone have an idea how to work around this?

[nbarsley]

Theres an option in config.exe on the tab to the far right (I cant remember its name..). In that tab there is a checkbox to turn off the gbpvr screensaver. This option is supposed to allow the windows screensaver to work. But for me no screensavers work when I turn off the gbpvr screensaver. Give it a try, it might work for you.

[Obsidian]

Yeah, I tried that already. No luck

[nbarsley]

To work around the problem I'm taken a screenshot of the main GBPVR screen and use it as my desktop. I then hid the start menu so that I can't tell the difference between gbpvr open and closed. Whenever I'm done using gbpvr I just exit the program so that hibernator turns on. I then programmed girder to open gbpvr when I press the power button on my remote. Hopefully this problem will be fixed in the new release.