INTERACT FORUM

More => Old Versions => Media Center 17 => Topic started by: drmimosa on May 21, 2012, 10:41:26 am

Title: PC won't wake from sleep for TV recording (Solved)
Post by: drmimosa on May 21, 2012, 10:41:26 am

Hello,

I have recently set up a broadcast TV consisting of an MC17 server running Windows 7 and the HDHomeRun Dual tuner, both connected to my router via Ethernet. TV works, EPG is set up, recording works.

However, the PC won't wake from sleep to record programs. Do I need to adjust any Windows settings? A quick forum search turned up a link to Away Mode, does this need to be turned on for the server to wake the computer for recording?

Wake on LAN and WAN works with Gizmo, Gizmo will currently wake and turn on computer after Sleep or Shutdown.

Thanks for your support.

Title: Re: PC won't wake from sleep for TV recording
Post by: Matt on May 21, 2012, 11:09:52 am

This is strange.  My Media Center is completely reliable about waking up to record.

You might turn on logging (Help > Logging), schedule a recording in a few hours, and sleep the machine.

You should see something like this in the log after you wake the machine up manually:
System entering standby
Wake from sleep hours: 3.4
Set wake from standby timer (result: 1)

Is this happening?  Could you post this section of the log?

Thanks.

Title: Re: PC won't wake from sleep for TV recording (Solved
Post by: drmimosa on May 21, 2012, 01:11:18 pm

Matt,

Solved: Windows 7 Control Panel > Power Options > Edit Plan Settings > Change advanced power settings > Sleep: Allow Wake Timer needs to be enabled

This might be disabled by default, because it was disabled on both my Windows machines. Thanks for your time, the log file pointed me in the right direction.

Phil