hurda7 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I had scheduled some recordings which would end at 3:15am, and then DVBV should send the PC into sleep. Instead, DVBViewer sent the PC into Away Mode. For my machine, that means it's only turning off the monitor. DVBViewer.log Why's that? I noticed that the scheduled defragmentation started and immediately stopped at 1:00am. Could that have any influence on the machine being sent to away mode instead of sleep/stand-by? Now I've disabled away-mode and deactivated the scheduled defragmentation. But sleep-mode usually worked before, so I don't know what the problem was this time around. Quote Link to comment
hurda7 Posted May 7, 2015 Author Share Posted May 7, 2015 PS: I changed the end-time of the marked recording to 03:14am after I made the screenshot. Quote Link to comment
Tjod Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 If you use Windows Vista or newer, a program cant prevent sleep mode triggered by a program or user anymore.The only way to prevent sleep mode in this situation is to let the PC go into Away Mode.The DVBViewer sends the PC never in Away Mode, it only sets a flag which results in the PC going into Away Mode if a user or program try to send the PC into sleep mode during a recording. Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 DVBViewer usually resets the ES_AWAYMODE_REQUIRED flag for its process (!) immediately after recording is done. However, another process may still have it set. If only one process in your system has this flag set the PC will not go to sleep mode, but to away mode under the conditions described by Tjod. Quote Link to comment
hurda7 Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 If you use Windows Vista or newer, a program cant prevent sleep mode triggered by a program or user anymore. The only way to prevent sleep mode in this situation is to let the PC go into Away Mode. The DVBViewer sends the PC never in Away Mode, it only sets a flag which results in the PC going into Away Mode if a user or program try to send the PC into sleep mode during a recording. So the last line in the log "06.05.15 03:14:30.251 TfrmMain Powermessage Going Away..." is no message from DVBViewer? When the PC successfully goes into Sleep mode after a recording, that line isn't in the log. Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 "06.05.15 03:14:30.251 TfrmMain Powermessage Going Away..."is no message from DVBViewer? It's a WM_POWERBROADCAST message with a PBT_POWERSETTINGCHANGE parameter sent by Windows to all running processes. It informs them that the PC is going to away mode, which means, an application or the user has tried to trigger sleep mode, but the ES_AWAYMODE_REQUIRED flag was set by at least one process. Quote Link to comment
hurda7 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Thank you for the explanation. Is there a way to log the programs which set and unset the awaymode-flag? Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 No way known to me. I've written a tool that displays the current ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED and ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED state, but for some unknown reason the Windows API call used for retrieving this information does not tell anything about ES_AWAYMODE_REQUIRED. Quote Link to comment
hurda7 Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 Alright, thanks anyway. Quote Link to comment
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