Record From Sleep in WMC

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I would like to (if possible) record certain shows when I am not at home. Could anyone recommend a simple step-by-step guide or program that would allow me to do this? I would also like for the computer to turn itself off afterwards which I assume can be done in Power Options?

Thanks.
 
*bump* Hmm, my computer doesn't want to sleep. Well, it does sleep but the computer remains powered on.

It did record something last night. I put it to sleep and everything switched off for a few seconds, then it came back on and was still in a state of sleep (a key press would wake it up). I was hoping that it would save energy (and noise) by sleeping but it's just as loud and colourful as when it's on.

Any advice?

Thanks.
 
Open a command prompt and use the command Powercfg to track down what is causing the machine to wake, and also if anything is stopping it from sleeping.

"Powercfg -requests" will show you what is stopping the machine from sleeping
"Powercfg -lastwake" shows you what woke the machine up
"Powercfg -help" gives you all the commands, which might be useful when you've tracked down what is causing your issues. E.g. you can use -devicedisablewake to disable certain devices from waking the system.
 
ChileanLlama said:
Open a command prompt and use the command Powercfg to track down what is causing the machine to wake, and also if anything is stopping it from sleeping.

"Powercfg -requests" will show you what is stopping the machine from sleeping
"Powercfg -lastwake" shows you what woke the machine up
"Powercfg -help" gives you all the commands, which might be useful when you've tracked down what is causing your issues. E.g. you can use -devicedisablewake to disable certain devices from waking the system.
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I seem to get the reply 'You do not have permission to do this' when I try and see what causes this problem.

LizardKing said:
Sounds like its using S1 sleep, rather than S3.

Theres a nice post here that describes there differences
http://www.crazyengineers.com/community/threads/system-sleep-states-s0-s1-s2-s3-s4-s5.3238/
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Thanks. That's all good to know. For some reason it seems to begin in S3 but something happens and it changes to S1.
 
ChileanLlama said:
Try an elevated Command Prompt (run as administrator)
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Thank you.

Powercfg -requests returns:

DISPLAY:
None.

SYSTEM:
[DRIVER] High Definition Audio Device (HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0892&SUBSYS_
14627681&REV_1003\4&2f6cd8e8&0&0101)
An audio stream is currently in use.
[DRIVER] \FileSystem\srvnet
An active remote client has recently sent requests to this machine.
[SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (RasMan)
Active RAS connection
[DRIVER] Legacy Kernel Caller
[DRIVER] Legacy Kernel Caller
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe

AWAYMODE:
None.
 
If you stop WMC (and all playback) what's left?

I don't know what the Legacy Kernel Caller is. But I do know that the [Driver] \FileSystem\srvnet can be problematic to automatically close down (it's related to network shares) and can remain open even when there is no activity. I disabled it from preventing sleep.

But best bet is to stop all playback, but leave WMC running as if you were putting it to sleep and see what remains in -requests.
 
Problem Solved. I will put what happened here for future generations.

I typed in a command in command prompt to ignore the driver/process keeping it from sleeping:

Powercfg -requestsoverride DRIVER "High Definition Audio Device" SYSTEM

It worked fine last night.
 
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