sleep?

[drewg]

Will SageTV wake a Linux server from sleep/hibernate to make a recording, like it does with Windows? If not, has anybody written an extension that takes care of this?

Thanks,

Drew

[rockinray]

I am wondering this too!

Would be very cool....

Ray

[Motofreak75]

I was able to get it working (somewhat) but HDPVR drivers on the other hand puked its guts out after S5. Also 2250 and 1800 PVR cards stopped working after S5. I restarted sagetv and still was FUBAR, so I had to fully reboot the machine to bring back all the PVR tuners to life. But the HDHomerun was fine.

this was with 10.04.1 server x64

[drewg]

Originally Posted by Motofreak75

I was able to get it working (somewhat) but HDPVR drivers on the other hand puked its guts out after S5. Also 2250 and 1800 PVR cards stopped working after S5. I restarted sagetv and still was FUBAR, so I had to fully reboot the machine to bring back all the PVR tuners to life. But the HDHomerun was fine.

this was with 10.04.1 server x64

It sounds like you just tested if sagetv & your tuner cards would work after a manual S5 suspend cycle. Is this true? Or did sage set a wakeup timer, and wake the system itself? Or did you write a script to set a wakeup timer based on upcoming recordings, or...?

Drew

[JetreL]

Everything that I have read is the HDPVR just doesn't respond well to being recovered from Sleep mode. (even in Windows)

[Motofreak75]

Originally Posted by drewg

It sounds like you just tested if sagetv & your tuner cards would work after a manual S5 suspend cycle. Is this true? Or did sage set a wakeup timer, and wake the system itself? Or did you write a script to set a wakeup timer based on upcoming recordings, or...?

Drew

All I did use my stx-300 to wake the server up as a first test and every tuner that is made by a hauppauge failed after S5, but to give credit to such a company, they don't support Linux! so I stopped trying after that, I didnt get a chance to test if sage would wake up the server, So I don't know, it could many things why it failed, Ubuntu X64, the fedora patch for the HDPVR or a combo of tuner cards HDPVR,1800,2250 & MCE500 all in one machine. I just install the power management software to make sure the processor and hard drives conserve power and stopped worrying about it.


JetreL: its a shame, I'm surprise to hear it doesn't work well in windows, you'd figure that in with power costs go up all the time that they would ensure that its tested fully.

[bcjenkins]

You should report the S5 issues to http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media

B

[rockinray]

I am new to Unbuntu so this is kind of a learning curve for me.

For your power settings, sleep the display and spin down the disks, am I correct on this?

I have a pair of HDHR units so it might work out just fine. I would like to sleep the box if I can.

Thanks for any feedback!

Ray

[Motofreak75]

Yes those are my power management setting with cpu being throttled back to conserve power, I just wont set S3 or S5 because of the tuners not working after an S3&5 event but the HDHR works fine. If your using a Ubuntu client or Server with the GUI installed then all these settings are in the laptop management (I think) or you might need to install them to get these features working correctly. I assume sagetv should wake up from S3 but I'm not sure about S5 though.

The STX-300 works great sending WOL packets to the server. Also as you enable it in the BIOS you should be fine with just the HDHR with S3.


Let us know.


Now I have a ton of research/reading to do with the V4L group, I'm using the stock updated server kernel 2.6.32-24-server-x86_64 with only the Fedora patch to get my IR working on my HDPVR units & would love to get S3 or even S5 working.

[rockinray]

Thanks for the reply!

Now I am not sure my little SuperMicro server will support WOL - so I need to check in to that too.

Time for testing!

Thanks, Ray

[Motofreak75]

bring this back from the dead,


Okay I have done a lot of testing with Sagetv linux, ubuntu and BIOS info.

Originally I had issues and figured how to fixed, in the BIOS I had enabled Energystar 4.0C in my BIOS which actual kills power to PCI,USB and NICs and that's why I was having issues resuming from S5 or hibernation. Disabling that fix that issue.

With the latest beta Sagetv server RC2 I tried to set a recording and then go into S5, but the machine doesn't wake itself up 2 minutes before that show starts. Now this works in the same machine on a different hard drive with W7 install. Sagetv creates a RTC event in the BIOS to wake the machine, but in Linux it doesn't, I can create a RTC event from the console/terminal window and then shut it down, and then at the correct time it will turn on. I just can't find in sagetv logs how it writes to the BIOS for an RTC alarm event.

Any suggestions before I send an email off to support ?

some light reading

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup