6.5.3 Hibernate problems

[timg11]

Until I installed 6.5.3, my SageTV system would hibernate when idle, and wake up automatically to record shows. Since installing 6.5.3, the computer never hibernates. I tried forcing it to hibernate using a batch file with the command "rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState Hibernate".

However after that, the system did not wake up to recorded scheduled shows.

Has anyone else had problems with hibernation with 6.5.3? It was OK up through 6.5.2.

Thanks,

Tim.

[rtengvad]

My pc has no problems with standby at the moment. Not in 6.5.2 and 6.5.3

Rasmus

[skyeclad]

I just upgraded my Sage client/server and I am happy to say that Sage is now capable of waking up my PC from hibernate. However, it rarely goes into hibernate even though I have it set for every hour to go down. I don't know if this is new to 6.5.3 or if I would have this problem with another version. All I know is that I have to send it to hibernate and it does wake up soon after.

[carlgar]

The only issues I have seen appear to be related to the Vista OS. The main problem I have always had is that the system will not hibernate is intelligent recordings are occurring. Sage gives the system permission to go down but Vista does not allow it. I suspect this is due to the disk activity. I have gotten around this by marking IR recordings as don't like to provide an idle time for the system to go down. Last nite, it appears my system did not hibernate as expected and I don't know why. I did test it, this morning and the system did hibernate. It could be another program did not allow the hibernation or perhaps Sage scheduled some intelligent recordings after I went to bed.
You can turn on Sage power management debug options by adding the following line to the properties file:
debug_pm=TRUE

It will show lines like:
Fri 12/12 14:30:54.687 [PowerManagement@15a3dd7] PM currState=0 wakeupTime=Fri 12/12/2008 14:58:00.000

A currstate value of 0 tells the system it is OK to power off, any non-zero value requires the system and/or display to remain on.

I did see a problem where the system would hibernate when it should not have with the current beta. Support gave me a new sage.jar file to workaround that issue.

[kricker]

Originally Posted by carlgar

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You can turn on Sage power management debug options by adding the following line to the properties file:
debug_pm=TRUE

It will show lines like:
Fri 12/12 14:30:54.687 [PowerManagement@15a3dd7] PM currState=0 wakeupTime=Fri 12/12/2008 14:58:00.000

A currstate value of 0 tells the system it is OK to power off, any non-zero value requires the system and/or display to remain on.

I did see a problem where the system would hibernate when it should not have with the current beta. Support gave me a new sage.jar file to workaround that issue.

That's a nice tidbit of information to know. I've been having some standby issues and need some help tracking it down. That info could be very useful.

[bsung]

Does it know to automatically turn back on when you turn on an HD200?

[carlgar]

Originally Posted by bsung

Does it know to automatically turn back on when you turn on an HD200?

My speculation is no, at least not yet. Your real question is does the HD200 know how to send a magic packet to the server yet. I have not seen anyone mention that capability so I doubt if it currently exists. I would think that it would require some user supplied information to be implemented. The HD200 would need to know the IP number of the server to send the magic packet to. It would also only need to send the magic packet only if it does not get a response from the sever within a reasonable amount of time. I would really like to see this feature added if it does not already exists, but I can work around it by using my notebook computer to send a magic packet to my server. The user must also have their server setup so a magic packet will wake up the server.

You could probably set your server up to wake on any ethernet activity but I think that would cause the server to be woken up too much. That also brings up the possibility of would the HD200 time out before the server woke up.

[bsung]

How do you make your laptop wake up your server?

[carlgar]

I use a free windows program to send a magic packet to my server. The program is available here http://magicpacket.free.fr/

[BlueH2O]

Originally Posted by carlgar

You could probably set your server up to wake on any ethernet activity but I think that would cause the server to be woken up too much. That also brings up the possibility of would the HD200 time out before the server woke up.

My sage PC is set to wake on directed packets, that is, not any traffic but only those packets ('magic' or not) that are destined for it's address. This allows my HD extender (100) to wake the server when I turn it on. It takes about one minute for the server to come up, and the extender handles this quite nicely. I cannot say the same for the MVP, however. It will sit there waiting for the server all day without ever waking it up.