MoviWiz 1.0.24.0

[Dan Soussi]

Hi,

Does anyone else get MovieWiz V1.0.23.3 when they try to download the latest V1.0.24.0 of MovieWiz?

[gehing]

I'm also getting the old version.
Regards,
Gert

[JavaWiz]

Right you are... Some how I missed getting the right file uploaded. Try again, it should work now.

[iwan]

Right you are... Some how I missed getting the right file uploaded. Try again, it should work now.

Works well here ... though I found that the 'Block MovieWiz' feature doesn't seem to be working anymore (Settings (2)). I'm using it to make sure my movie server is fully operational after a wake-on-lan.
It did work a couple of versions ago, would be nice to see this feature back again.

[JavaWiz]

Works well here ... though I found that the 'Block MovieWiz' feature doesn't seem to be working anymore (Settings (2)). I'm using it to make sure my movie server is fully operational after a wake-on-lan.
It did work a couple of versions ago, would be nice to see this feature back again.

Ok, I'll take a look tonight.

[stevenjwilson]

Can you use this "block moviewiz" feature to wake a PC on standby? Can someone say briefly how? Thanks

[JavaWiz]

Can you use this "block moviewiz" feature to wake a PC on standby? Can someone say briefly how? Thanks

Yes, that was it's intent.

You'll need to find a program that will send a Wake-On-Lan (WOL) command to the server PC (Google WOL), I found one here, not sure how good it is..



The idea is you:

• specify the Activate PGM
  
• suppy any cmd line args (ie MAC Address)
  
• check 'Block MovieWiz'
  
• set the Window State (of the activate program). I recommend Norm or Max while setting up and debugging the process, then Hide once you've got it working.
  

If you check Block MovieWiz, it won't fully start the plugin until your Activate Pgm terminates. If the activate program sends the magic packet and terminates (ie fire command and forget) you might want to set it up in a batch file that will ping the target computer to delay the process from returning immediately. This will give the target computer time to wake up and be available on the network

The batch file might be something like:

Code:

@Echo off
WOL xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
ping -n 1 -w 3000 pvr-server

This is not fail-proof, as the batch file may return, and the pvr-server may still not be available.

I actually don't use this feature, so maybe some other users who have implemented this may have better ways...

[iwan]

Yes, that was it's intent.
You'll need to find a program that will send a Wake-On-Lan (WOL) command to the server PC.

As my home-theater infrastructure is heavily relying on this feature (plus the good humor of wife and kids ) here's what I'm doing:

I found that not every program that sends WOL-packets is able to wake up every computer. This is probably due to to port being used by the WOL-program or being expected by the computer (some say 9, some say 40000 - you get the idea...). You'd have to try-and-error to find a prog that works for you.

Here's what my batch-file looks like:

Code:

@echo off
:wach

ping -n 1 IP_OF_SERVER>NUL

if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto weiter
if ERRORLEVEL 0 goto ende

:weiter

"c:\program files\util\wol.exe" MAC-ADDRESS_OF_SERVER

:aufwachen

echo .
ping -n 1 IP_OF_SERVER>NUL
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto aufwachen

:shared

echo .
net view \\SAMBA_NAME_OF_SERVER>NUL
if not ERRORLEVEL 0 goto shared

:ende
exit

This is not fail-proof as well, but does check a couple of things:

1. First, it checks whether the server is up. If so, the batch file exits.
   
2. Then it sends a WOL-packet, because the server is apparently not up
   
3. The server needs about 20 seconds to start its network daemon and gets pinged every ~2 seconds
   
4. As I need to access a samba share on the server, I double-check whether this is available.
   

Of course MovieWiz needs to be blocked while the batch-file runs, otherwise it would try to access a share that's not (yet) available.

[JavaWiz]

Works well here ... though I found that the 'Block MovieWiz' feature doesn't seem to be working anymore (Settings (2)). I'm using it to make sure my movie server is fully operational after a wake-on-lan.
It did work a couple of versions ago, would be nice to see this feature back again.

It seems to work on my system. Could you post your log file during a run that you suspect it did not work?

[iwan]

It seems to work on my system. Could you post your log file during a run that you suspect it did not work?

Sure, just reproduced the aforementioned behavior. Logs attached.