A pipe dream or possible?

[digitalgm]

All,
I have just purchased my sageTV bundle with the 250MCE card and the UIRT and am so pumped to install it. That aside, I would like to know about how sage handles resume and suspend of the computer. I ask because I went from a ReplayTV before this and it had a power button. When the power button was pressed the unit would go into standby mode and spin down the disks.

My questions are as follows :

1) Can I suspend the computer through remote that I bought (Streamzap)? If so, do I need to use Girder for this functionality or is it done through sage?

2) I have seen some programs that are written to wake up sage when recordings are scheduled to record. With these, does the computer re-suspend when the recording is done?

3) If I suspend the computer and resume it, will my UIRT and sage still work reliably?

Thanks

[stanger89]

Originally posted by digitalgm
1) Can I suspend the computer through remote that I bought (Streamzap)? If so, do I need to use Girder for this functionality or is it done through sage?

You need girder AFIAK.

2) I have seen some programs that are written to wake up sage when recordings are scheduled to record. With these, does the computer re-suspend when the recording is done?

Are you talking sagewake? I think it's set to sleep the PC if no recordings are schedule for some time (not sure how long).

3) If I suspend the computer and resume it, will my UIRT and sage still work reliably?

That's the tricky question, I played with sagewake a little, and it did indeed wake the PC. However some of my hardware never wakes up if I put my PC in S3, so I gave up.

[digitalgm]

Thanks for the info. As far as #3 goes, what hardware are you using? Do you use the UIRT at all?

One more question - if I suspend my computer with girder (or whatever), can I resume it by using the remote?

Thanks a million...

PS - I like your SN, I have a '65 Stang myself =)

[stanger89]

It's my M-Audio Revolution that never resumes, kind of hard to watch TV without sound

Anyway, I've got a Streamzap (no UIRT) that IIRC works after resume, but I can't resume my PC from S3 with anything but the power button on the PC.