Standby issues

[Ted the Penguin]

so... I just got around to upgrading to the latest version (I know, its sad how long it takes me now ) and it looks like the install did something, because my system that was sleeping perfectly before is now waking itself up instantly!! it sits there idle fine, and when its sleep timer kicks, it trys to go to sleep, shuts down and everything. THEN it wakes itself up, about 3 seconds later O_o.

[Ted the Penguin]

ok.. this is getting repetitive! solved my own issue again!! (but once again, posted the thread anyways, for posterity)

it was GB-PVR, but nothing sub did (I don't think) I killed the tray app on my client laptop, and the system stays asleep! I guess it was hitting it on the network as Windows was going down making Windows think it had to come back up... oh the frustration.

[Torque]

Is this still working for you? (I need to try this)

I upgraded my home office machine to the latest version (haven't done the dedicated PVR yet) and now that system won't stay in standby. It doesn't immediately start back up when i put it in standby. I'll come home from work and it'll be on or i'll put it in standby in the evening and it'll be on in the morning.... actually heard it start back up at around 2am one morning. This sound like the same issue?

[sub]

actually heard it start back up at around 2am one morning.

There may be more to the problems you're seeing, but thought I should mention the default EPG update time is 2am, and it'll wake the machine to do the EPG update.

[Torque]

There may be more to the problems you're seeing, but thought I should mention the default EPG update time is 2am, and it'll wake the machine to do the EPG update.

I checked my config last night and indeed it was set to wake the computer to update the EPG at 2am. I disabled the option to wake the computer and put it in standby but the computer was on again this morning when I woke up. I'll try killing the tray app tonite to see if that fixes it.

[martint123]

I think it is very machine and bios setting dependant.
I can be sat, remotely logged in to the PVR box, working away and it will shut down into S3 standby. Looks like mine needs actual keystrokes to keep it awake.
It will even go to sleep while running a defrag.
Only a WOL packet, a keyboard press, scheduled event, or wakeup request from gbpvr will wake it up.

However, it still needs a hard reboot every couple of weeks to stay like this ;(

[fuzzweed]

I have exactly the opposite problem in that mine refuses to sleep. The cheap router supplied from my broadband company insists on chattering away to the PC even when there is no deliberate network activity.
Try leaving it with the network cable unplugged (if you've got one of course). If it stays asleep with no network then you can go to the network card in device manager and either disable completely 'allow this device to wake the computer' or set it to 'Wake on magic packet / management station' depending whether you want to be able to manually wake it over the network or not.

I've currently set the server network card to WOL only, and made a shortcut on the client to a command line magic packet sender which I click before launching the client. It's the best solution I've found short of leaving the server on 24/7 which fills me with environmental guilt.

As far as I can tell Windows standby is poorly implemented at almost every stage of the chain (OS, BIOS, hardware, software...) and aggravates me more than anything else!

[gazoo]

..It's the best solution I've found short of leaving the server on 24/7 which fills me with environmental guilt.

As far as I can tell Windows standby is poorly implemented at almost every stage of the chain (OS, BIOS, hardware, software...) and aggravates me more than anything else!

Don't feel guilty, I don't :p I leave mine on, but it only uses like 40W or so after cool n'quiet and with the amd 45W CPU.

I agree with you regarding the crappy implementation. I had my client working awesome with sleep mode working reliably. I then upgraded from .9 to .13 on GB-PVR and now it doesn't restart 2 out of 5 times..I just get the desktop. It does this on the XP client where I upgraded - the Vista test server works fine, but that was a new install of .13. When it does restart, I get about 5 secs or so of desktop, then pvrx2 restarts. I finally gave up screwing around with it and put a custom "Restart GB-PVR" button on my Harmony remote and mapped it via Eventghost to re-run the program.

[Torque]

Closing the GBPVR tray app seems to have 'fixed' my PC waking up on its own.

This probably wouldn't be a problem if I had my PC set to go into standby after X minutes, but I prefer to put it in standby myself.

[herrmannj]

I think it is very machine and bios setting dependant.
I can be sat, remotely logged in to the PVR box, working away and it will shut down into S3 standby. Looks like mine needs actual keystrokes to keep it awake.
It will even go to sleep while running a defrag.
Only a WOL packet, a keyboard press, scheduled event, or wakeup request from gbpvr will wake it up.

However, it still needs a hard reboot every couple of weeks to stay like this ;(

ms knowledge base from mind:
to detect user presence the os monitores keystrokes, mouse-events and windows that get/lost focus. Disc activity or cpu usage doesnt prevent the os powermanagment from going into stand by. there is a special "user away" mode that prevent that, but it have to be set at app level and is barely used.