How to prevent Sage Server from entering sleep with active HD-300 client?

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I've rebuilt my server on a Win 10 64 bit machine.
It is not really a server, it is an HTPC form factor, and is able to sleep between recordings. I don't want to set the computer to run 24/7.

With my last computer (Win7 / 32 bit) I had it configured to sleep when truly idle, but it would not enter sleep while the HD300 was active and paused.

Can anyone point me to the setting that controls that? It is not the Windows sleep settings, because I may never physically touch the server computer while watching TV, so if it only counts mouse/keyboard activity, it will sleep incorrectly. I want the Sage Service to prevent sleep while there is an active HD-300 client session,

Thanks!

[wnjj]

Maybe “extender_power_keeps_server_out_of_standby=true”

https://github.com/google/sagetv/blo...ement.java#L42

Reading update note 4 here (https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49177) it seems like it would be too drastic for what you want. Furthermore, that note says when media is streaming it shouldn’t be sleeping anyway.

[KryptoNyte]

It's a strange issue. During the period of time in the past where I had the SageTV server successfully sleep, I never had it attempt to sleep WHILE an HD300 was playing video, or even on menus for that matter. Furthermore, when the server was sleeping, the HD300 would send packets to wake it.

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Originally Posted by wnjj

Maybe “extender_power_keeps_server_out_of_standby=true”

https://github.com/google/sagetv/blo...ement.java#L42

I'm not sure how I would apply that setting. In Sage.properties?

The issue is when pausing playback. The server did not sleep while playing video, but if it was paused, the server would sleep after a short time, leaving the HD-300 in a non-functional state requiring power cycle. It won't re-send the wake-on-LAN if the HD-300 receives a remote button command but the server is sleeping.

I found a setting in Setup / Customize / Power Management Settings / Idle Timeout. "Enter how long SageTV can be idle with no user input or video playback before allowing the OS standby settings to take over".

It defaulted to 2 minutes. I changed it to 30 minutes. So far so good.

[wnjj]

Yes, in sage.properties. There could be a GUI setting that controls that but I don’t know where.

Looking through the power management code I see detection for videos playing to keep the severe awake, but not for paused. It seems like what you had was considered normal and that setting you found will work.

The one I suggested keeps the server awake continuously if a phone extender ism”connected” which I assume to mean powered up at all. If you power your extenders off when not in use then that setting may serve you well if you find the timeout setting too restrictive.