nPVR Continually Wakes PC

[jksmurf]

That said, I have adopted the strategy of issuing a daily restart on the server (only) after the nightly EPG update in the early A.M. I use PostUpdateEPG.bat for this process and it works well.

Since I posted the issue in the link referred to above by j2gbpvr, this is also what I do. Doesn't fix the underlying issue though.

k.

[SnakeEyes]

I "upgraded" to Windows 10 Pro a couple of weeks ago and have started having this exact problem as well. my logs are identical to those posted. i can hit the "sleep" button on my remote and within a minute Nrecord.exe wakes the system.

[jcjefferies]

Several years ago my desktop PC would wake up a few minutes after being set to sleep. I cannot remember the exact details but it was the network card waking the computer. The solution was to either disable WOL or select "Only allow magic packets to wake this computer" also I think called "Admin packets" in earlier versions of Windows. I never discovered what was sending the packets which were waking the computer!

Chris

[peejay]

Disabling the mouse from waking the computer will also help. I now only use the keyboard to wake my computer from sleep and this has helped a lot.

Paul

[bfos]

I "upgraded" to Windows 10 Pro a couple of weeks ago and have started having this exact problem as well. my logs are identical to those posted. i can hit the "sleep" button on my remote and within a minute Nrecord.exe wakes the system.

Yeah. The service restart workaround seems to be the best current solution to this bug, unfortunately.

[Gary95682]

Sorry to revive a dormant thread, but I'm still encountering this problem in March 2018 (NPVR 4.1.0). My Windows 10 PC will be fine for several days, but then it'll start waking from sleep every few minutes. When I do a "powercfg /lastwake", it reports a Wake Timer from NPVR Recording Service. If I stop and restart the service, things are ok for another few days and then the problem returns. So I guess restarting the service daily would be a good workaround.

[pcostanza]

This only happens on 1 of my W10 machines and only seldom but the PC goes back to sleep shortly after. I've done nothing different to them other than the default sleep settings but I do have my mouse, keyboard and network set to not wake the pc.

[HarryH3]

So I guess restarting the service daily would be a good workaround.

Years ago I had a problem with the recording service stopping every few days. I added this PostUpdateEPG.bat and haven't had a problem since. It reboots the system every night after the EPG update completes.

echo off
REM Reboot if not recording
set NSHelper=c:"program files (x86)"\npvr\nscripthelper.exe

:check
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i in ('%NSHelper% -isinuse') do SET condition=%%i
echo %condition%
IF %condition% =="NOT RECORDING" goto reboot

:delay
timeout 60
goto check

:reboot

echo "About to reboot"
shutdown /r

[Gary95682]

Years ago I had a problem with the recording service stopping every few days. I added this PostUpdateEPG.bat and haven't had a problem since. It reboots the system every night after the EPG update completes.

Thanks. I may automate the service restart, but daily rebooting wouldn't be practical for me (it'd be too cumbersome to get everything back to where it was; plus, my system is encrypted and won't restart unless I'm there to enter the password).

Unfortunately, though, for the past several days, my NPVR Recording Service has been constantly waking my PC despite multiple (manual) restarts of the service each day. In particular, any time I wake up in the middle of the night, I find the PC (and monitors) powered on rather than in standby. A "powercfg /requests" always shows nothing, and "powercfg /lastwake" gives:

Code:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
  Wake Source Count - 1
  Wake Source [0]
    Type: Wake Timer
    Owner: [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\NRecord.exe (NPVR Recording Service)

My NRecord log is full of these:

Code:

2018-03-18 04:49:36.472    [DEBUG][233]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 04:49:38.243    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 04:49:43.397    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 04:49:43.397    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 04:53:17.883    [DEBUG][63]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 04:53:19.291    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 04:53:22.448    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 04:53:22.448    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 04:56:56.914    [DEBUG][65]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 04:56:58.095    [DEBUG][99]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 04:56:58.891    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 04:57:04.015    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 04:57:04.015    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 05:08:37.835    [DEBUG][50]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:08:38.042    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 05:08:38.852    [DEBUG][202]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:08:40.043    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 05:08:44.970    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 05:08:44.970    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 05:36:48.804    [DEBUG][225]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:36:51.743    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 05:36:52.166    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 05:36:52.166    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 05:40:26.555    [DEBUG][186]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:40:27.508    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 05:40:33.934    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 05:40:33.934    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 05:44:07.532    [DEBUG][197]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:44:08.407    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 05:44:14.828    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 05:44:14.828    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 05:49:18.480    [DEBUG][263]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:49:19.649    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 05:49:25.914    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 05:49:25.914    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 05:52:59.545    [DEBUG][250]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:53:00.701    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 05:53:06.960    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 05:53:06.960    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 05:57:10.552    [DEBUG][264]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:57:10.577    [DEBUG][62]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 05:57:11.891    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 05:57:17.928    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 05:57:17.928    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 06:08:52.868    [DEBUG][148]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 06:08:53.514    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 06:08:54.237    [DEBUG][178]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 06:08:55.515    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 06:08:59.456    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 06:08:59.456    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 06:20:32.796    [DEBUG][264]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 06:20:34.148    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 06:20:35.019    [DEBUG][68]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 06:20:36.148    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 06:20:39.993    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 06:20:39.993    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 06:32:13.591    [DEBUG][223]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 06:32:15.348    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 06:32:20.822    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 06:32:20.822    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 06:35:54.829    [DEBUG][167]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 06:35:55.651    [DEBUG][228]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 06:35:56.262    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 06:36:01.766    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 06:36:01.766    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat
2018-03-18 06:47:35.875    [DEBUG][249]    Resuming...
2018-03-18 06:47:37.016    [DEBUG][6]    cycling MVP servers
2018-03-18 06:47:42.424    [DEBUG][9]    Recording service noted the system was resuming...
2018-03-18 06:47:42.424    [DEBUG][9]    No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\Wakeup.bat

[selowan]

First, let me know if I should start a new thread. This seems like a good place to start for now.

I am a WMC refugee configuring my first NextPVR box, and am experiencing the same wake/failure to sleep issue. As yet I have not scheduled recordings, and EPG is scheduled to update from Schedules Direct at 0345 hrs. That's not the cause, the issues I describe here occur in the afternoon and early evening, which is the time I have to work on the PC.

I find that the NPVR Recording Service keeps waking the PC shortly after it sleeps, as determined using powercfg /lastwake. The time till it wakes can range from 1 to 30 minutes or so after I manually sleep the box. After it wakes, it will not sleep again.

The issue does not occur if the NextPVR service is stopped. Restarting the service or the PC does not help: I have restarted the PC, put it to sleep, and have NextPVR wake it after a minute or so.

This is a new Windows 10 1909 install, and NextPVR is the only program the PC is used for.

Has anyone found a solution to this?