Waking up no longer working after standby?

[DrDDT]

I have the following behavior:

After a cold boot, I can get GBPVR to wake up my machine for recording just fine.
I see a line like:

2009-10-17 16:02:44.343 VERBOSE Asking Windows to be awake for recording (oid: 1) at 2009-10-17 19:42:30 (UTC 2009-10-17 17:42:30)

in my logging. This is how it is supposed to work.

Now for the strange part: This doesn't work anymore after I put my PC to sleep and it wakes up again. No more 'asking' line in the logging, after scheduling a new recording. I does still wake up to refresh the EPG though.

To fix this a have to restart the recording service. I'm using XP.

Any ideas?

[martint123]

I found standby/wakup didn't work very well when I was testing it.
Certainly manually putting it to sleep didn't work very well - much better to let windows do it. Also putting it to sleep within 10 to 30 minutes of it due to wake up for a recording caused me problems.
Best to let Windows do the job.

However, if your machine is the culprit then you could use a script to restart the recording service when it comes out of hibernate. I used to use hibernate trigger.
http://www.desimonesystems.com/suspendtrigger/index.php

[DrDDT]

I found standby/wakup didn't work very well when I was testing it.
Certainly manually putting it to sleep didn't work very well - much better to let windows do it. Also putting it to sleep within 10 to 30 minutes of it due to wake up for a recording caused me problems.
Best to let Windows do the job.

However, if your machine is the culprit then you could use a script to restart the recording service when it comes out of hibernate. I used to use hibernate trigger.
http://www.desimonesystems.com/suspendtrigger/index.php

Thanks, I mostly use manual standby, so maybe that's the problem.
Still weird that EPG update allways works, even after a suspend/resume.

I updated my standby shortcut to also stop/start GBPVR:

Code:

net stop "GB-PVR Recording service"
psshutdown -d -t 0
net start "GB-PVR Recording service"

Don't know if this interferes with the EPG update, but time will tell.

I still have to add some logic to prevent accidentally entering standby while recording.
GBPVRCli should be able to help, but the usage is rather cryptic.

[pBS]

don't use the system screen standby button, it's a forced standby and probably won't resume properly..
you have to make a custom menu item point to a 'nice' standby cmd to have a button in menu..
i haven't had any problems suspending in this way..
also, restarting recording service a few secs before suspend resets all the wake cmds [it's first thing that happens when rec serv. restarted,asks windows to be awake for xxx]

[DrDDT]

don't use the system screen standby button, it's a forced standby and probably won't resume properly..
you have to make a custom menu item point to a 'nice' standby cmd to have a button in menu..
i haven't had any problems suspending in this way..
also, restarting recording service a few secs before suspend resets all the wake cmds [it's first thing that happens when rec serv. restarted,asks windows to be awake for xxx]

What is a 'nice' standby command?

[pBS]

one liike the sleep key on keyboard, or a proper sleep cmd that asks programs to close before sleeping..
just use "rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState"
but it only lets you hibernate if it's turned on, suspend when hibernate is not enabled..
mine lets you suspend/hibernate/shutdown,etc

i made one myself.. [autoit3]
[sleepit.exe]
run sleepit without params to see help..
make a custom button on menu and point it to sleepit.exe with param /s

the autoit3 cmd is "shutdown(32)" if you want to make one yourself..