HTPC Log 02 – S3 Sleep Fixed, WebGuide and EPG
Tested sleeping with hybrid sleep enabled and Media Center running. No problems. Not sure what happened the last time.
Waited 5 minutes after recording ended, did not go back to sleep.
Switched BIOS settings to S1&S3, works fine.
Noticed that when there’s a scheduled recording, it sometimes either doesn’t go to proper S3 sleep, or maybe it just takes a long time. so far 2 out of 3 times it didn’t go to S3 even after a couple of minutes (but display was turned off), and once it went to S3 after about a minute. Will have to test this further. On further thoughts, those 2/3 times were when I had a scheduled recording to start in about 5 minutes. Perhaps this forced the PC into Away Mode instead of sleep. Should check what the timing is for “wake computer x minutes before” (is there such an option?).
Seems to be working fine now. Did two scheduled recording tests. Went to S3 sleep, automatically woke up, recorded, and went back to sleep. The main problem was the “when sharing media, allow computer to go to Away Mode” power option. Changed it to “allow computer to sleep”.
Parents came home and they usually use the TV for the rest of the night, so I can’t work on improving the TV input quality.
Instead, am remoting in from my laptop and setting other stuff up: WebGuide and EPG.
WebGuide installed successfully, and I’m able to access the web interface fine. Can play recordings from there, but it’s a little slower than simply opening the files directly. This is probably since I have my recordings stored on a NAS, and so it’s clearly less efficient to do NAS –> ShuttleBox (my Media PC) – WebGuide –> WafflesSeven (my Laptop), as opposed to NAS –> WafflesSeven.
Since EPG for Singapore is not available through VMC, I have to use TVxb instead, in conjunction with BladeRunner Pro . Halfway through this – currently have both installed, am TVxb seems to have successfully downloaded EPG data for Starhub channels.
Next up:
- Improve Live/Recorded TV Quality (from yesterday)
- Check if it’s signal quality issue (including analog vs. digital) by switching to composite video input from STB (ie. see how cable channels look like)
- Continue setting up EPG
- am on the step of “Granting permission to write into the BladeRunner GuideData, Native, and QuickGuide folders.”
- Ensure EPG works with WebGuide
- Continue testing WebGuide, figure out how to watch Live TV (so far I can’t find the option for this. Suspecting that I need to have EPG data)
