raven22;403040 Wrote: > Thanks for the new version. Maybe you can clarify the difference between > > Defer action if sleep timer is active and Monitor Sleep Timers. > > Which one (or both?) do i select in the situation in which i listen to > a playlist and set the sleep timer to 45 minutes. After 45 minutes i > want my server to shutdown, the player(s) to switch to SN and then the > players to switch off. The two features are not exactly complimentary...or mutually exclusive, for that matter. There's some overlap. I'll have to think this through....let me see...thinking out loud here...
The old "defer action" feature predated the idle timer watchdog feature. So, "defer action" really was there so the user could start sleep-playing, select a shutdown, and then forget about having to do anything else. When the sleep-timer expired, the previously "scheduled" shutdown would happen. I *think* (I'll have to check) that the "scheduled" shutdown can be canceled at any time during sleep-playing. The "monitor idle players" feature really sort of takes away the need for "defer action"...especially if the sleep-timer occurs during a end-of-day period where you can set a shorter idle time-out. "Monitor sleep timers" says: OK, IF there is a sleep timer, take the action immediately upon conclusion of the sleep timer. Don't wait for any idle period. The downside to this feature is that, so far, I don't have a way of distinguishing between the sleep-timer ending, and the sleep-timer being canceled. In the 2nd case, it would be nice if the automatic shutdown action got canceled too. This is not the case with the current code. I'll have to look into this. Anyway, to me, it looks like the "defer action" is a mostly redundant feature at this point. *Does anyone care passionately that the "defer action" feature stays?* I'm all about trying to simplify SrvrPowerCtrl's code going forward. For your scenario, I suggest you try the "monitor sleep timers" feature and set the action to "shutdown to SqueezeNetwork". Try that with a short sleep timer (sleep until end of current song) and see if you like the results. You *may* need to select the "switch ALL players" and "power off connected players" features in the command tweaks section. Try it with a couple of combinations of those settings and let me know if it works as you would expect it to. -- 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/mailman/listinfo/plugins
