"The Hibernator" Support and Feedback

[Nudge]

Arkay,

Ignore last(s), have found problem..........forgot to turn blank ss back on after some trial profiling duh......

Have tuned the HDD activity down as suggested and lengthened the time of hibernator - all working ok now.

Later,

Nudge

[Nudge]

Arkay,

Have hibernator working well now on two machines, some minor tweaking to get them working just right.

Have you heard of this one

Was watching Live TV last night on main machine, paused the machine to get an ale refreshment, returned and the blank SS had come on (set at 2minutes), pressed pause again screen returned to XP desktop MCE GUI turned off - funny thing was the HDD was still buffering TV.

Didn't know how to return GUI without losing buffer of Live TV, so just

Blank SS normally comes on with the MCE GUI for other apps such as My Music but returns to GUI when remote pressed.

Hope it wasn't the ales kicking in.....

Later,

Nudge

[arkay]

Nudge,

Mine goes straight back the MCE gui when I hit a button on the remote..

Maybe the button you hit was the power button which turned off MCE when the SS died?

Cheers,
Arkay.

[impact]

Found a small problem last week with Hibernator... it appears it monitors cpu / lan activity and local hdd correctly.... but nothing for external drives...

Hibernator was working really well, until the WAF went thru the floor... Playing a DVD on the dvd drive in the MCE machine causes my machine to think it is doing nothing and wants to go to sleep during the movie... I suppose from a CPU point of things, it is very very low playing a DVD, no network traffic, and nothing happening on a local drive - so it all makes sense...

Maybe an option to specify what drives to monitor, or just a check box for removeable drives?

[arkay]

Hi Impact,

There's something wierd going on with your machine if it can do that.

The hibernator shouldn't even kick in until your windows screensaver timeout starts it. That should never happen if you're actively watching a DVD.

Looks like you have a problem with when your screensaver thinks the machine is idle? MCE should prevent the screensaver from activating for anything that involves watching something in MCE.

I watch DVD's on mine all the time and the ss never starts unless I pause the movie and leave it paused for a few minutes. But that's the way it's meant to work. Screensaver kicks in, if I don't do anything to the machine for the next 5 mins then it sleeps.

If this is the case and your screensaver subsystem is broken pretty much the only thing you can do is re-set you CPU threshold to compensate for when a DVD is playing. (It should use enough to still be accurate).

I don't know if there's any way to monitor the DVD or removeable drives. The perfmon stuff is there to monitor system performance for local built in drives. I can't see anything that allows monitoring of DVD's.

Cheers,
Arkay.

[farnold]

Sorry, guys, my question is by far not based on your level of experience...

I have a MCE machine since Monday and almost everything is OK, just scheduled recording doesn't work from within MCE. When the PC comes back from Stand By and goes into MCE it attempts to start recording, but as for a second or so it gets a No TV Signal error and recording fails - the same error message appears when I switch to Live TV, but goes away after a second and I see the Live TV signal. I read through numerous threads here and at TGB and seem to understand that this is kind of a general problem with MCE and 2 turner cards - I actually have a DVICO FusionHDTV Hybrid and isn't Hybrid two tuners after all?

I was only successful with scheduled recording when the computer was turned on, running the MCE program and having the TV signal switched on at the scheduled time. Ah, and I have also been successful with scheduled recording outside MCE in using the DVICO program: start from stand by and recording worked like a beauty there.

OK, I found in an old posting that a similar problem stood at the beginning of the Hibernator and now I'm wondering if there is a script that would actually check if the MCE program is running, start it if not and select Live TV. Wouldn't then scheduled recording be possible?

As I said, I'm really not quite experineced with MCE so far and would be very happy about a "responce for dummies"

[bbimber]

can i make it go into standby (S3) instead of hibernate? what's the difference between the two modes? can more peole confirm that the computer wakes from hibernate to record properly?

i have S3 standby/resume working well, it's just that sometimes MCE wont go back into standby automatically. the resume part works fine though.

[arkay]

Originally Posted by bbimber

can i make it go into standby (S3) instead of hibernate? what's the difference between the two modes? can more peole confirm that the computer wakes from hibernate to record properly?

i have S3 standby/resume working well, it's just that sometimes MCE wont go back into standby automatically. the resume part works fine though.

Search is your friend my friend Take a look at this post:

http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/comm....php?t=4750#25

The Hibernator can make your machine go back into either Hibernate or Standby (s3) modes. Just pick which one you want in the GUI.

Cheers,
Arkay.

[bbimber]

i misunderstood the settings. i take it suspend = standby?

[arkay]

Sorry, yes. Terminology is a little wierd with this stuff.

Hibernate (s4) and Suspend (s3) are the two "Standby" modes available on a windows machine. Though I guess you could just as easily say Hibernate and Standby and the two "Suspend" modes on Windows...

I probably just should have Hibernate and Standby in the GUI.

I'll fix it at some point and re-upload it.

Cheers,
Arkay.