Philip Meyer;437251 Wrote:
> Your plugin covers all bases, I believe, when I am using a SB3 in the
> bedroom and want to suspend and wake up server in the morning.
>
> However, I often suspend the server by pressing a Suspend key on my
> keyboard (or hibernate via Start > Turn Off Computer or using
> WakeOnStandby Tasktray icon > Perform Now > Hibernate). Pressing
> suspend key is also convenient for my wife.
>
> It would be useful if this also sent all players to SN and switched
> back on resume, such that the players continue to show a clock, internet
> radio is available on demand, etc.
I've got some other fish to fry first, but perhaps I can start work on
a windows power management helper app next month. Let's call it
"SCPMMonitor.exe" for now.
Give me some ideas as to what you think it ought to be able to do. At
the vary least, I think it ought to:
..on recipt of a particular system power management message, send a
user configurable CLI request.
I'll need to do some research in terms of what sort of system messages
it ought to monitor. But at first glance, the two easiest system
messages to intercept and interpret will be WM_QUERYENDSESSION (system
shutting down) and WM_POWERBROADCAST, wParam == PBT_APMSUSPEND (system
sleeping or hibernating).
I'll make the first version very bare bones: no UI...just a INI file
that you can hand configure...something along the lines of:
Code:
--------------------
#SCPMMonitor.ini
[SCPMMonitor]
CLIip=127.0.0.1
CLIport=9090
SHUTDOWN=srvrpowerctrl gotosn
SLEEP=srvrpowerctrl gotosn
--------------------
The app won't have any user interface at all. Once run, it will just
sit there in the background, listening for those windows messages. When
it hears one, it will fire off a CLI request with whatever it finds in
the INI file. So, if you don't want to use SrvrPowerCtrl and only have
one player, the INI could be:
Code:
--------------------
#SCPMMonitor.ini
[SCPMMonitor]
CLIip=127.0.0.1
CLIport=9090
SHUTDOWN=00:04:20:10:0a:0b connect www.squeezenetwork.com
SLEEP=00:04:20:10:0a:0b connect www.squeezenetwork.com
--------------------
The practical upshot of this would be that anytime the system begins to
transition into shutdown or into sleep, SCPMMonitor.exe would send a CLI
request. That CLI request will be completely configurable by the user
simply by editing the INI with notepad.
My question to you is: are there any other system events that you can
think of that make sense to monitor? E.G.: logon, logoff? Those events
could be used to send srvrpowerctrl setblock and clearblock requests so
that, anytime someone is actively logged on the system, srvrpowerctrl is
blocked and thus won't suspend the system on idle. Once the user logs
off, srvrpowerctrl gets permission to suspend on idle player timeout
once again. This would duplicate the facility SrvrPowerCtrl has now on
OSX.
Your thoughts?
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