PC stopped sleeping

[eastavin]

Hi.  Things were good.  I run NPVR on a low power desktop next to my TV.  THe device is never off and goes to sleep 10 minutes after we stop watching.  That is until I tried to watch a tv show from another part of the house using a new windows laptop over wifi using the new Microsoft Edge (the chromium version I am told) browser.

While watching over wifi to the low power desktop I was replaying a recording.  a message popped up on the Edge saying network issue and the replay froze.  Never recovered.. so I closed the EDGE window and opened a new one and in about 5 minutes the same thing happened.   An hour later I walked by the low power desktop and I notice its not sleeping anymore.  runs 24 hours a day.

Anyone have any idea why it wont sleep?  Is there some sort of flag set in NPVR that prevents it from sleeping if someone tried to watch remotely and as I got disconnected due to network issues... its still in place?  I tried restarting NPVR server.. nothing, rebooting nothing... I noticed a similiar issue a few years ago when trying to watch from an Apple IPAD on OS9 with Safari.  The only solution I could ccome up with was reinstalling windows 10 on the desktop.  Never had any issues watching with chrome browser or the old edge.

Would be nice if there was something simpler I could try.  Appreciate any ideas.

Edward

[mvallevand]

Windows manages sleep and if you have power management set to stay awake with network activity that could be your problem. Web streaming in v5 is improved though and might reduce the problem but it doesn't help with wifi issues.

Martin

[eastavin]

Windows manages sleep and if you have power management set to stay awake with network activity that could be your problem.  Web streaming in v5 is improved though and might reduce the problem but it doesn't help with wifi issues.

Martin

Thanks for the reply.  I dont have anything other than the default windows 10 home settings that Microsoft installs with a refresh.  If that includes stay awake with network activity then I would... and so would virtually everyone.

I do recall Sub writing in a post a ways back on v4 that he was putting in a block of some kind to prevent windows from going to sleep when someone was watching remotely... I wonder if that has something to do with it?  I can see if NPVR writes a change to some permanent windows parameter when a remote session starts.. then it fails to restore the parameter to normal when a session fails prematurely.  Might be worth looking into to see if the same code made it into V5... or I could just be misinformed.. or there is no such thing at all.  

Guess I will have to think about refreshing Windows again.

Thanks.. Edward