Suspend and resume with SageTV

[tyson]

mwhitlock,

I too would like to thank you for this utility.

I have a request:

Sagewake attempts to put the system immediately back to sleep if it woke it up and no user intervention. Can an option be added to disable this?

Why? I have the PVR system off in the corner. I use Hauppauge MediaMVP to play all the recorded material. If I need to schedule a recording, I use VNC to connect to the PVR box from the main computer. SageWake wakes up the system and starts to record. I sit down, turn on the MediaMVP and start watching. When the recording is done ... poof! ... my MediaMVP quits playing because the system has gone to standby. I guess Sagewake doesn't think anybody has touched the system, which is true ... but I am using the system remotely by streaming to the MediaMVP.

BTW, adding the MediaMVP turned out to be more "family" friendly while I continue to tweak with the PVR box.

- Tyson

[mwhitlock]

Sounds good.. I'm going to be out of town for the weekend, but I'll add this when I get back.

[jptaz]

mwhitlock,

Another approach would be to check if any network files are open. I had to create a simple program that checks this when I use RS Somnifero.

FILE_INFO_3 *buf;
DWORD read, total, resumeh, rc;

resumeh = 0;
buf = NULL;
rc = NetFileEnum( NULL, NULL, NULL, 3, (BYTE **) &buf, 2048, &read, &total, &resumeh );
if ( rc == ERROR_MORE_DATA || rc == ERROR_SUCCESS )
{
if ( total > 0 )
{
time_t ltime;

time( &ltime );
if ( bSuspend == TRUE )
printf("%sFailed to Suspend the System because network files are open!\n", ctime( &ltime ));
else
printf("%sFailed to Hibernate the System because network files are open!\n", ctime( &ltime ));
return 0;
}
}

John

[RedCoat999]

Ok, brainfart... It says it cannot find the schedule file. I searched for sch*.txt and nothing comes up. What/where is the usual name for the schedule listings?
Thanks

[jptaz]

You need to set the follwing setting in the Sage.properties file

scheduler_export_file=C\:\\Program Files\\Frey Technologies\\SageTV\\SageWake\\schedule.txt

Note this is just where I put mine. The easiest way to do it is have the file called schedule.txt and in the same directory as SageWake.

[buzzerbee]

does this work with the newly released v2.0?

[jptaz]

Yes.

[mayamaniac]

does it wake via remote control, such as power button? Or is there another way to do this?

[mwhitlock]

Doing this would require some support from the USBIRT driver to "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." Not sure whether this support exists.

[buzzerbee]

I'm having some difficulty setting this up. I'm no PC expert, as you can tell!
Is there some guide?
ie, how do I add noir, etc to the shortcut in the start> startup folder?
does it wake from sleep or hibernation?

thanks
I'm probably going to give it another try in a few days.

[mwhitlock]

Just go to the properties on the shortcut and add the command line options after the executable path with a space between the path and the options and between the options themselves.

Depending on your system, SageWake should be able to wake it from either suspend or hibernate.

[buzzerbee]

am I doing something wrong? when I have sagewake running, my PC won't hibernate anymore. Usually if I push the power button on the PC, it hibernates; now it just hard powers off.

I want it to hibernate when inactive adn then wake to record shows then go back into hibernation. I don't use the standby function

[jptaz]

Do you have Intelligent Recording turned on?

I hibernate my system too and I do not have this problem with the current version of sageWake.

[falchulk]

"Usually if I push the power button on the PC, it hibernates; now it just hard powers off."

Start\settings\control panel\power options
Click advanced
Change the valuse of "When I press the power button on my computer" to hibernate.

Also go into your CMos and verify that you have S1 selected under power management and its not disabled.

[buzzerbee]

hi, hope I'm not changing the point of this thread. if so, I can start a new one.
these are my PC settings. all the things you said to do were already in place.

preexisting settings:
IR is disabled
in power options "when I press teh power button > hibernate" is set already

in the BIOS:
ACPI enabled
ACPI suspend type S1 (POS)
Power management User defined
Video Off method: DPMS support
HDD power down disabled
HDD power down in suspend disabled
POwer on by alarm disabled
WOL (PRE#) from soft off disabled
WOL(RI#) from soft off disabled
USB resume from S3/S4 disabled

motherboard Epox 8RDA+

[tyson]

mwhitlock,

Any chance you have had time to add the "auto sleep" disable I described?

I would really appreciate it.

Thanks again,

Tyson

[Scriber]

Originally posted by buzzerbee
am I doing something wrong? when I have sagewake running, my PC won't hibernate anymore. Usually if I push the power button on the PC, it hibernates; now it just hard powers off.

I want it to hibernate when inactive adn then wake to record shows then go back into hibernation. I don't use the standby function

I'm presuming that "hard powers off" means you need to hold the button in for 5 sec otherwise nothing happens.

Try enabling the Sagewake log and see if its not permitting the system to hibernate and why.

[buzzerbee]

I reinstalled sagewake yesterday (I had removed the shortcut from my startup folder). I also changed the PC hibernate time to 2 minutes so I could test it. I had scheduled a 10:40-10:46 recording adn a 11 -11:04 pm recording. both shows seem to be recorded ok (I deleted the files without viewing).

This is in my sagewake properties
-noir=23-5 --leadtime=180 --logfile=wakelog.txt

Here's what sagewake did or didnot do:

1) the PC did hibernate and wake up on time for a 10:40 -10:46 pm recording. it did not hibernate during the recording.

2) It did not hibernate after that, either before or after the 11 pm recording.

3) When I pressed the power button to hibernate it did not. it hard powered off, which I mean that it goes from my desktop to --> off. it does not go through the windows shutdown process of saving my settings etc.

4) before yesterday, I had been able to push the power button on the pc and the pc would go into hibernation. this is definately affected by sagewake.


Here's the log:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" standalone="yes" ?>
<SageWakeLog version="1.2.3.1">
<Event time="5/29/2004 6:39:01 AM">
<NextRecording start="5/28/2004 10:40:00 PM" stop="5/28/2004 10:46:00 PM" manual="true" favorite="false">Comedy Central Presents</NextRecording>
<SetWakeUp time="5/28/2004 10:37:00 PM" />
<SetAllowSleep allow="true" />
</Event>
<Event time="5/29/2004 6:39:01 AM">
<NowRecording>Comedy Central Presents</NowRecording>
<SetAllowSleep allow="false" />
</Event>
</SageWakeLog>



edit: if I go to "start> turn off computer" and then either try to go to stand by or hibernate, nothing happens. but if I then end the sagewake process in task manager and again go to start> turn off computer, and select hibernate, it does.

so for some reason, sagewake is not letting it get the command.

is there any information I can provide to help solve this? I don't know much about all this stuff, so if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.

[buzzerbee]

still no love
I set the BIOS to allow S3 only, per the mobo manual, and reinstalled winxp pro with all updates. I verified standby is working properly. I installed sagetv and sagewake. when sagewake is running in task manager I cannot even manually go to standby. needless to say, sagewake won't put it into standby. it's sagewake 1.2.3.1 and the 2....19 version of sage.

even though I had sagewake running in task manager and then scheduled some shows to record this am to test it, the log is still from yesterday.

any ideas?

[Scriber]

For me the issue was apparent in the log as SW was not permitting the computer to sleep. I don't use it right now under my current setup but will once I get some time. See my prior post HERE. Might be a bug in SW on how it reads the schedule file.