ppmoore;377206 Wrote: > I have three more questions: > - Excuse this newbie's ignorance, when you speak of Idle mode on the > SB, do you mean the situation where it is not being used to play music > or a radio station? This is what I have observed: the SC's host machine > is not stopped or suspended when the SB is active. Yes. Idle==no players playing. A player doesn't need to be "off", just not actively playing; paused equals "not playing" in this context. If SrvrPowerCtrl's "Monitor Idle Players" feature is selected, the plugin polls all the players every minute. Once it sees that no players are playing, is starts counting down each minute until the "allowed idle time" (defaults to 45 minutes) is reached. Then the "idle action" selected gets performed.
ppmoore;377206 Wrote: > - Is the configured Shutdown/Suspend action postponed or cancelled if a > rescan of the music folder is in progress, whether initiated from the > SC or from the SB? If so, I suppose that the action configured under > XP's power setting takes precedence in this case? That is, I should > ensure that XP's power settings kick in after the rescan is finished.Yes, the > idle action timer checks to see if the scanner is active and takes no action if this is true. But SrvrPowerCtrl continues to check every minute. So, once the music scan is complete, SrvrPowerCtrl starts its countdown again and will eventually perform the shutdown/standby/etc. SqueezeCenter and SrvrPowerCtrl really don't interact with XP's power settings other than the fact that SC's built-in PreventStandby plugin prevents XP from (I believe) EVER putting the system into standby. I.E. SC's PreventStandby plugin should totally defeat any XP power scheme standby/hibernate settings. (I need to check this, but I believe that this is how PreventStandby works.) SrvrPowerCtrl is essentially a power management system that operates in parallel to XP's power management schemes. Two areas that SrvrPowerCtrl doesn't address and where XP's PM system will still take precedence are: 1). dpms monitor turn-off and 2). idle hard disk spin-down. ppmoore;377206 Wrote: > - I don't fully understand the "Perform end-of-day action". Can this be > configured so that, for example at 2am, even if the SB is not in Idle > mode, a forced shutdown/suspend of the SC machine is done. This would > ensure that the host SC machine is always stopped or suspended during > night hours, even if I forget to first set the SB to Idle mode. As it stands > now, the End-of-day monitor is just like the idle players monitor: players have to be idle (not playing) for the EOD action to be performed. If you really want a firm "shutdown at this time no matter what" policy on your server, I suggest you add a scheduled task (Control Panel->Performance and maintenance->Scheduled Tasks) which calls psshutdown.exe with the appropriate cmd line args. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
