gharris999;491983 Wrote: > What do you guys think: should the 'on-idle' and 'not-idle' stuff be > broken out of SrvrPowerCtrl and put into a separate plugin...something > along the lines of the PreventStandby plugin for Windows? SrvrPowerCtrl > has always been about trying to control power states on a headless, > dedicated SBS server with no OS power-save features enabled. It seems > like more and more folks are using non-dedicated machines as the audio > server for their Squeezeboxen and trying to keep their OS's power > schemes in play. Trying to accommodate this is having the effect (at > least in my head) of stretching SrvrPowerCtrl out of shape. > > Would a separate, bare-bones 'IdleState' plugin with none of the bells > & whistles of SrvrPowerCtrl be a better match here? > > IdleState could execute user-configured commands at a user-configured > frequency according to three different states: > > not-idle (i.e. playing, scanning, firmware updating). > > idle (i.e. none of the above) > > grace (idle, but within a grace time-out since the last not-idle) > > (SrvrPowerCtrl currently doesn't differentiate between 'not-idle' and > 'grace'.) > > Would this be a better match for what you guys want to do?
That sounds like just the ticket! I am using using a non-dedicated machine as an audio server (running Win7 Media Center) and trying to keep the OS's power schemes in play. I have the issue with the server not staying awake after it has been woke up by a Squeezebox. I had the same problem with Vista. I imagine there a lots of folks in similar situations using a multi-function server. -- squeezesnapper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ squeezesnapper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34738 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
