Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-22 Thread gharris999
guiness;620068 Wrote: Things are getting close to where I had it before. Thanks for your quick (instant) help! Now my issue is that Shutdown to www.mysqueezebox.com (under Monitor Sleep Timers) does not succeed in pushing my SBC over. I've tried increasing Alternate server delay time from 60

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-21 Thread gharris999
mvordeme;619549 Wrote: This could be fixed by iterating the boxes twice, powering them all down on the first pass, and only then pushing them to mysqueezebox. The code, as it currently stands performs two iterations. 1st, it powers off all locally attached players one by one. On the 2nd

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-21 Thread mvordeme
gharris999;619552 Wrote: The code, as it currently stands performs two iterations. 1st, it powers off all locally attached players one by one. On the 2nd iteration, it pushes each player (again, one by one) onto the alternate server using $curclient-execute(['connect', $szAltServerIP]);

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-21 Thread Roger the Shrubber
gharris999;619431 Wrote: If the CLI approach is problematic for whatever reason, you can also block SrvrPowerCtrl by creating a block-file. On windows XP, this would be: Thank you very, very much for that extensive response. I think I'll take the file based approach indeed. There are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-21 Thread mvordeme
mvordeme;619569 Wrote: I'll unsync and test it again.Here are the results. It doesn't power off any player, regardless of whether they are synchronized or not. Only switching them off on the alternate server works. I have no idea exactly what is the issue. Maybe the server log can provide a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-21 Thread mvordeme
This line looks suspicious: Code: poweroffplayers = 0, -- mvordeme 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/mvordeme) | scaleo home server 2105 | squeezebox server 7.5.3 - r31792 | server power control 20110315.125752 | squeezebox boom duet |

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-21 Thread gharris999
Roger the Shrubber;619688 Wrote: Thank you very, very much for that extensive response. I think I'll take the file based approach indeed. There are three situations I'll have to think more about: - user manually boots up or wakes server - user manually hibernates server through the plugin

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-21 Thread gharris999
mvordeme;619698 Wrote: This line looks suspicious: Code: poweroffplayers = 0, That's because you haven't checked Power-off attached players when shutting down? in the SrvrPowerCtrl settings Command Tweaks section. Since you aren't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread gharris999
OK, I've just posted a new version with the following changes: Code: == What's new: 20110319 == 1).

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread Meridion
gharris999;617841 Wrote: 1). Expanded SrvrPowerCtrl's system idle monitoring to include optional network monitoring. On Linux and OSX, added disk and cpu load monitoring as well. I really like these enhancements! This allows setting up a green server. Can anybody recommend reasonable

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread gharris999
Meridion;619361 Wrote: It looks like it these setting were triggering a successful suspend action yesterday, but there is an error in my log: Code: [11-03-19 22:38:20.0017] Plugins::SrvrPowerCtrl::Util::SystemExecCmd (781) no modelName: no name executing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread Meridion
Seems to work quite nicely right now. Will test the levels with the help of debug log later, to see if thresholds can be optimized. These new features are exactly what i was waiting for! Many thanks. -- Meridion Songs: 16'169 - Albums: 1'337 - Artists: 916

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread Roger the Shrubber
Hi, I have set up a dedicated server with XP. I would like it to hibernate whenever nobody is at home. However, this is a rather complex but repeated weekly schedule (e.g. most days only morning/evening, sometimes over lunch, sometimes an afternoon, full days in weekend). I want to tackle it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread guiness
I've had SvrPowerControl working well for months on my SBS on Windows 7 Desktop. I have plugin autoupdate on and, recently, things seemed to have fallen apart. I used to be able to have my SB go to sleep at night and SPC would shut down and send the SB to mysqueezebox.com. That doesn't seem to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread gharris999
guiness;619418 Wrote: I've had SvrPowerControl working well for months on my SBS on Windows 7 Desktop. I have plugin autoupdate on and, recently, things seemed to have fallen apart. I used to be able to have my SB go to sleep at night and SPC would shut down and send the SB to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread gharris999
Roger the Shrubber;619413 Wrote: Hi, I have set up a dedicated server with XP. I would like it to hibernate whenever nobody is at home. However, this is a rather complex but repeated weekly schedule (e.g. most days only morning/evening, sometimes over lunch, sometimes an afternoon, full

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread guiness
I can't find where to turn network monitoring off. -- guiness guiness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread gharris999
guiness;619456 Wrote: I can't find where to turn network monitoring off. In the SrvrPowerCtrl settings, just move the Idle network IO threshold slider to 0. This is explained if you hover the mouse over the [ i ] icon. -- gharris999

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-20 Thread mvordeme
It doesn't work for me. My Boom is never powered off. Either the code doesn't work for Booms (unlikely) or synchronizing boxes gets in the way of your code. How do you do it? If you iterate through the attached boxes and power each one off before you push it to mysqueezebox, I could imagine that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-18 Thread mvordeme
Let me test it for a few days. Last night it didn't work as desired, and I have no idea why not. I fetched one box back from mysqueezebox, and when I started the music, the other box played it as well. Maybe I messed up the configuration. The main problem is with mysqueezebox and not with your

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-18 Thread gharris999
mvordeme;618918 Wrote: Let me test it for a few days. Last night it didn't work as desired, and I have no idea why not. I fetched one box back from mysqueezebox, and when I started the music, the other box played it as well. Maybe I messed up the configuration. The main problem is with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-15 Thread gharris999
Update: I've been posting new versions of SrvrPowerCtrl yesterday and today as I've come across minor buglets. The latest update (version 20110315.125752) fixed a one-liner that was preventing SrvrPowerCtrl from working with SqueezeCenter 7.3.4. I'm pleased to announce that the new version of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-15 Thread Apesbrain
Where can I download the current version? Googlecode site shows nothing updated lately. Thanks. -- Apesbrain Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-15 Thread gharris999
Apesbrain;618303 Wrote: Where can I download the current version? Googlecode site shows nothing updated lately. Thanks. Download instructions at the head of this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521page=1 Since this is still a beta version, I haven't updated the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-15 Thread mvordeme
gharris999;618086 Wrote: As it now stands with SrvrPowerCtrl, a player gets (optionally) turned off twice per action: once locally so that IRBlaster/PowerCenter actions can propagate, and then a 2nd time at the remote server.This is also great for another reason. When two players are

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-15 Thread gharris999
mvordeme;618335 Wrote: This is also great for another reason. When two players are synchronized, they are as well fetched back from mysqueezebox.com simultaneously (which I actually don't like). I have two players in adjoining rooms which I only want to synchronize in case I switch them

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread gharris999
OK, new version of SrvrPowerCtrl has been posted to the repo. What's new: Code: == What's new: 20110313

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread epoch1970
Gordon, thanks for your hard work, once again. Does the new plugin work with SBS 7.5 ? 7.4 ? -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 2 SB Classic (fw 130), 1 SB Boom (fw 50) • SqueezeCenter 7.3.4 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: ContextMenu, SaverSwitcher by Peter Watkins • Server Power Control by

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread gharris999
epoch1970;617850 Wrote: Gordon, thanks for your hard work, once again. Does the new plugin work with SBS 7.5 ? 7.4 ? It should, but I've only *really* tested it with 7.6. I'll test against 7.5.4 today. -- gharris999

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread tamanaco
Just updated the plugin to version 20110314.011927. When I press+hold sleep in my SB3 remote it no longer suspends. In the previous version I had it setup to suspend to mysqueezebox.com and it worked fine, but after today's update pressing+holding sleep does nothing. I only use this plugin to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread gharris999
tamanaco;617903 Wrote: Just updated the plugin to version 20110314.011927. When I press+hold sleep in my SB3 remote it no longer suspends. In the previous version I had it setup to suspend to mysqueezebox.com and it worked fine, but after today's update pressing+holding sleep does nothing. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread gharris999
tamanaco;617903 Wrote: Just updated the plugin to version 20110314.011927. When I press+hold sleep in my SB3 remote it no longer suspends. OK...capitalization bug...which is fixed now. Again, thanks for pointing this out. PS: SrvrPowerCtrl, after pushing a player onto an alternate server,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread gharris999
gharris999;617922 Wrote: PS: SrvrPowerCtrl, after pushing a player onto an alternate server, now sends a power-off request for that player to the alternate server (mysb.com, or other). SrvrPowerCtrl waits 15 seconds before sending that request. So, you need to have your 'Alternate server

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread tamanaco
gharris999;617922 Wrote: OK...capitalization bug...which is fixed now. Again, thanks for pointing this out. Just tried the latest release and it fixes the problem... Thanks! -- tamanaco tamanaco's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread epoch1970
gharris999;617928 Wrote: Actually, I rethought this. I've now added a discrete pref for the power-off request. So..if you don't care if a player gets powered off when it arrives at the remote server, you can keep the 'Alternate server delay time' at zero. What I used to do with my own code

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread gharris999
epoch1970;618070 Wrote: What I used to do with my own code actually, is have the players optionally power off *before* changing location. I've been using this because my amp power is controlled by IR Blaster and most of the time when the player goes to mySB.com, it is to stay silent. So

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-14 Thread epoch1970
gharris999;618086 Wrote: As it now stands with SrvrPowerCtrl, a player gets (optionally) turned off twice per action: once locally so that IRBlaster/PowerCenter actions can propagate, and then a 2nd time at the remote server. Great. -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 2 SB Classic (fw

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-13 Thread W0153R
I love this plugin, works flawlessly on Ubuntu server 10.10. I also want to use my SB to remote-switch some equipment using LIRC and some RF-controlled sockets, this works fine, however the 4 custom commands don't allow for much equipment to be switched. Is it possible to add more custom

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-13 Thread gharris999
W0153R;617704 Wrote: I love this plugin, works flawlessly on Ubuntu server 10.10. I also want to use my SB to remote-switch some equipment using LIRC and some RF-controlled sockets, this works fine, however the 4 custom commands don't allow for much equipment to be switched. Is it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-11 Thread StevieM
Ah, I've hit another problem - my server will not now suspend under any circumstances (except via power/suspend button on the front of my pc)! I'll have a look at the SB server log, see if I can find anything. -- StevieM

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-11 Thread gharris999
StevieM;617254 Wrote: Ah, I've hit another problem - my server will not now suspend under any circumstances (except via power/suspend button on the front of my pc)! I'll have a look at the SB server log, see if I can find anything. My ubuntu 10.04 server recently got 'stuck' and wouldn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-10 Thread StevieM
Hi, I am running ReallyPreventSystemStandby and Srvrpowerctrl (latest betas) on my Ubuntu 10.10 PC, which acts as a server for 4 SB players. I am having a problem stopping my Ubuntu PC going into standby using RPSS, when I have music playing from my SB Touch. I have seen from other threads the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-10 Thread gharris999
StevieM;616982 Wrote: Any ideas why the command seems to work in terminal but not in the plugin?Sorry...ReallyPreventStandby is still ReallyBeta. You need to set some permissions in the /etc/sudoers file for ReallyPreventStandby to work on linux...just like you do with the SrvrPowerCtrl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-10 Thread StevieM
I'm pleased to report the the script has worked, and my Ubuntu server no longer sleeps when the players are on. Thanks very much for the quick reply and clear instructions! Steve -- StevieM StevieM's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-07 Thread shawje
gharris999;616005 Wrote: I have to admit that I don't have any experience with wireless bridges so I'm unclear if broadcast packets hop across the gap or not. But what kind of a SqueezeBox are you using? As far as I know, the older, IP3K based SBs essentially just remember a single MAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-07 Thread gharris999
shawje;616085 Wrote: Ironically, I did have this functionality working using Server Power Control. Provided I used the sleep function each night on my SB Radio, ServerPowerControl would set a wake event on the server before the next alarm. It worked most of the time pretty well, but I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-07 Thread gharris999
shawje;616085 Wrote: Ironically, I did have this functionality working using Server Power Control. Provided I used the sleep function each night on my SB Radio, ServerPowerControl would set a wake event on the server before the next alarm. It worked most of the time pretty well, but I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-06 Thread shawje
Gordon I have been using ReallyPrevntStandby on my MacMini for a few weeks now and it seems to work very well, with no issues. I previously used Server Power Ctrl to call on Jiggler but it was a bit clunky. My only niggle now is Wake On Lan. I had intermittent success using wake on wireless

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-06 Thread gharris999
shawje;615980 Wrote: Gordon I have been using ReallyPrevntStandby on my MacMini for a few weeks now and it seems to work very well, with no issues. I previously used Server Power Ctrl to call on Jiggler but it was a bit clunky. My only niggle now is Wake On Lan. I had intermittent

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-04 Thread gharris999
sfraser;614879 Wrote: The squeeze center host is also used as a workstation by me. But more importantly the rest of the family uses the Ubuntu host to stream movies to a popcorn hour player. They have no idea where the movie files are actually located, But they complain it is already

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-02 Thread sfraser
The squeeze center host is also used as a workstation by me. But more importantly the rest of the family uses the Ubuntu host to stream movies to a popcorn hour player. They have no idea where the movie files are actually located, But they complain it is already complicated enough turning on 3

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-01 Thread sfraser
gharris999;614597 Wrote: OK, those log entries don't make any sense to me at all. Things seem to be happening in the wrong order and somehow Squeezebox Server itself is stopping when you attempt the suspend. That should only happen with a shutdown request. I think your SrvrPowerCtrl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-01 Thread gharris999
sfraser;614687 Wrote: Thanks I will give that a try. Quick question, when you say completely disable the Gnome power manager, you set it to do nothing during idle periods? That is the way it is currently setup. That's one way. The other way is to configure ubuntu so that the X server and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-01 Thread sfraser
gharris999;614760 Wrote: That's one way. The other way is to configure ubuntu so that the X server and Gnome GUI don't start by default. That way, you have a headless server not burdened by the overhead of having a useless GUI running. But with Ubuntu Desktop, that's not for the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-03-01 Thread gharris999
sfraser;614781 Wrote: Thanks very much ! That seemed to fix it, it suspended after 5 minutes. Couple of questions for you. If I set the time of day timer to suspend at midnight to 18:00 hrs and the server gets manually resumed from suspend in the morning, will it resume suspend after I turn

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-28 Thread sfraser
Ok attached below is the log output of another test. Sorry it took so longlife got in the way : ). There is no log entries after I manually woke up the SBS. this happens at about minute 53:37. I did disable the XM and Superdate plugin to keep the logs a little cleaner. Now I got a stupid

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-28 Thread sfraser
Ooops, forget log file above, forgot to turn debug on. Below is a valid log file. Again at the top of the log I manully suspended and woke up the server. The manual wake up call seems to be the last log entry. this log was grabbed 7-8 minutes after that. (please note I could not submit this as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-28 Thread gharris999
sfraser;614590 Wrote: Ok attached below is the log output of another test. Sorry it took so longlife got in the way : ). There is no log entries after I manually woke up the SBS. this happens at about minute 53:37. The plugin is set to to suspend the server after 5 minutes. I did

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-27 Thread sfraser
gharris999;614089 Wrote: So...after you manually initiated the suspend at 7:07, did the system actually suspend? I don't see a corresponding wake-up note in the log. Also, as long as XM isn't currently working (that's correct, isn't it?) could you disable the XMRadio plugin? Let's make

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-27 Thread gharris999
sfraser;614179 Wrote: Yes it never goes into suspend on it's own. I will disable XM plugin and will get another log snip it . I will start the process with a manual suspend and resume, and then let it time out on it's own. Thanks You might want to try the following when you do that, in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-26 Thread sfraser
Hi, attached is a portion of the log file after putting the service in debug this morning. You will notice I manually put the server to sleep around 7:00am this morning. I would be happy to try the latest version of the plugin once it becomes available. thanks again! Scott [11-02-26

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-26 Thread nietgiftig
Good day from an rainy Holland Thanks for replying to my small problem gharris999;613804 Wrote: So...do one of the following: If your ubuntu machine isn't a headless server...i.e. it has a keyboard, monitor, GUI, etc., just unplug the network cable and then use SrvrPowerCtrl's webUI to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-26 Thread gharris999
nietgiftig;614038 Wrote: Going to buy an Ipod I think. I'don't think the problem lies with SvrPowerControl Sorry for the long post. I will try tomorrow again. Now I am going to listen to some relaxing music. Unfortunately, you wouldn't be the first person to shelve their SBController.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-26 Thread gharris999
sfraser;614015 Wrote: Hi, attached is a portion of the log file after putting the service in debug this morning. You will notice I manually put the server to sleep around 7:00am this morning. I would be happy to try the latest version of the plugin once it becomes available. thanks

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-25 Thread nietgiftig
I have been running SvrPowerControl for about 8 months. Installed it by hand on an Ubuntu machine because the automatic script di not worked for me. I followed the instructions for this install by gharris999 I am almost a n00b on Linux but hey, i managed it. And it was working good for me. A few

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-25 Thread gharris999
nietgiftig;613702 Wrote: I have been running SvrPowerControl for about 8 months. Installed it by hand on an Ubuntu machine because the automatic script di not worked for me. I followed the instructions for this install by gharris999 I am almost a n00b on Linux but hey, i managed it. And it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-11 Thread danco
It's looking as though my problem was just a glitch. Perhaps caused by the upgrade to 7.5.3 and cured by restarting SBS. At any rate, I first reported trouble after two different radio programs stopped in the middle more than once with Please Sleep confirming in its log that it had sent my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-11 Thread gharris999
danco;610253 Wrote: But my experience was that I tried a lot of things, including resetting. removing peripherals, logging in to a different account, and nothing worked. That's where I'm at, at the moment. The most recent big change to this system was installing MS Office:mac 2011. Maybe

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-11 Thread -tm-
Just a follow up from my perspective: I migrated to ReallyPreventStandby from SvrPowerControl on 7.5.3 and latest Mac OS X (iMac, Intel). It does work! Thanks for the update. It took half a day to work properly, similarly to the problem danco posted - there seem to be magic healing hands under

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-11 Thread gharris999
-tm-;610418 Wrote: Just a follow up from my perspective: I migrated to ReallyPreventStandby from SvrPowerControl on 7.5.3 and latest Mac OS X (iMac, Intel). It does work! Thanks for the update. It took half a day to work properly, similarly to the problem danco posted - there seem to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-10 Thread gharris999
danco;609594 Wrote: I'll experiment further. Is there any logging I could do to check what's going on? I'm not entirely sure if the force sleep unless works with Unix executables rather than Mac apps, but again I can try. However, you said you were playing an album. What happens if you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-09 Thread danco
gharris999;609550 Wrote: Ok, second test..still working. In Energy Saver, I have the system set to go into safe sleep after 10 minutes. I started an album playing with SBS and let it play through to the end. After it finished and then after the default 20 minute ReallyPreventStandby

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-09 Thread epoch1970
gharris999;609537 Wrote: I think I'm headed towards a scrape clean and os reinstall on this machine. Probably some months away, though. So it is a software problem, related to a kernel extension or an application helper I guess. You could try creating temporarily a new user and see if PM

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-09 Thread gharris999
danco;609594 Wrote: I'll experiment further. Is there any logging I could do to check what's going on? I'm not entirely sure if the force sleep unless works with Unix executables rather than Mac apps, but again I can try. However, you said you were playing an album. What happens if you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-09 Thread gharris999
epoch1970;609635 Wrote: So it is a software problem, related to a kernel extension or an application helper I guess. You could try creating temporarily a new user and see if PM works under that account. That could show if the issue comes from stuff in /Library or in /Users/xxx/Library. I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-08 Thread epoch1970
gharris999;609072 Wrote: Am I just an old curmudgeon, or are computers becoming a whole lot less fun? Really old curmudgeons use Aquamacs on the mac ;) Using 10.6.6 on an alu (2010) mac mini, I see mostly reliable power management. Methinks 10.5.8 was a bit more reliable, though. Perhaps you

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-08 Thread gharris999
danco;609085 Wrote: My Mac has never been able to sleep on its own. It is known that Energy Saver doesn't work for some people, but there have been various suggestions for the cause, none of which seemed to be my problem. I use a third-party utility (Please Sleep, but there are others)) to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-08 Thread gharris999
epoch1970;609533 Wrote: Really old curmudgeons use Aquamacs on the mac ;) But you can get the excellent TextWrangler for free on the mac app store, too (and this one understands perl regexps for search and replace, contrary to emacs…) Using 10.6.6 on an alu (2010) mac mini, I see mostly

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-08 Thread gharris999
danco;609085 Wrote: My Mac has never been able to sleep on its own. It is known that Energy Saver doesn't work for some people, but there have been various suggestions for the cause, none of which seemed to be my problem. I use a third-party utility (Please Sleep, but there are others)) to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-07 Thread gharris999
danco;608745 Wrote: I wouldn't expect the problem is with it being a BBC stream, more likely a change in 7.5.3. Is there any checking I could do? OK, I'm struggling with getting even basics (like getting the system to sleep on its own) to work after updating to OS X 10.6.6 10J567. With

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-07 Thread danco
gharris999;609072 Wrote: OK, I'm struggling with getting even basics (like getting the system to sleep on its own) to work after updating to OS X 10.6.6 10J567. With the advent of the App store, suddenly, I hate my mac. Basic, open source utilities like lingon suddenly are paid apps. Am

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-06 Thread danco
gharris999;608656 Wrote: Truthfully, I haven't extensively tested ReallyPreventStandby on my mac-mini. Nor do I do a lot of BBC listening as I live way on the other side of the digital divide. But I'll try testing this tomorrow. I wouldn't expect the problem is with it being a BBC

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-05 Thread danco
I use a Mac (OS 10.6.6) and moved from SerberPowerControl to Really Prevent Standby. It seemed to work OK, but I have just upgraded Squeezebox Server to 7.5.3. Have just tried listening with BBC iPlayer and found that my Mac went to sleep. I can't quite recall whether I had been able to listen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-02-05 Thread gharris999
danco;608641 Wrote: I use a Mac (OS 10.6.6) and moved from SerberPowerControl to Really Prevent Standby. It seemed to work OK, but I have just upgraded Squeezebox Server to 7.5.3. Have just tried listening with BBC iPlayer and found that my Mac went to sleep. I can't quite recall whether

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-31 Thread Letten
Hi, My Windows 7 laptop keeps waking a few seconds after i suspend it manually. If I stop SBS this behaviour stops, so it is related to SBS some how. I have never had this kind of problem before, I use WOL, no problem. A week ago I tried enabeling SvrPowerControl because I got tired of loosing

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-31 Thread gharris999
Letten;606992 Wrote: Hi, My Windows 7 laptop keeps waking a few seconds after i suspend it manually. If I stop SBS this behaviour stops, so it is related to SBS some how. I have never had this kind of problem before, I use WOL, no problem. A week ago I tried enabeling SvrPowerControl

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-31 Thread Letten
So did some testing after reading your input. Started by veryfying that I had the problem consistantly every time I suspended laptop (after 60 seconds it wakes up). Then I unpluged Ethernet cable to SBS laptop, suspended, and it stayed. So youre wright about WOL signals. Then I tried with my

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-31 Thread gharris999
Letten;607140 Wrote: So did some testing after reading your input. Started by veryfying that I had the problem consistantly every time I suspended laptop (after 60 seconds it wakes up). Then I unpluged Ethernet cable to SBS laptop, suspended, and it stayed. So youre wright about WOL

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-31 Thread Letten
gharris999;607146 Wrote: Have you been using the beta audio player feature on the Duet's Controller? (I.e. listening to audio via the Controller's headphone jack?) This is just speculation, but, if you have, then even if the Controller isn't currently controlling the SBC audio player, it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-25 Thread Tarik
Fixed. starthidden.exe was not installed. Once installed the server shuts down. Without it the SCPowerControl process was not launched and the log was not updated. Thanks for your help. -- Tarik Tarik's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-21 Thread miniwaites
Hello All, Apologies if this has been asked before - I looked at the project website, but couldn't find the answer. I'm just wondering how the server alarm wakeup feature works as currently I'm having to use a wireless bridge to connect my players to the server and so WOL doesn't work. Will

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-21 Thread Tarik
gharris999;603972 Wrote: What directory did you install SCPowerTool.exe to? C:\windows\system32 I have checked the permissions on the file and it appears as ALL to the system and admin users, and read execute and read to other users. I am using the automatically run at system start option

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-21 Thread gharris999
miniwaites;604094 Wrote: Hello All, Apologies if this has been asked before - I looked at the project website, but couldn't find the answer. I'm just wondering how the server alarm wakeup feature works as currently I'm having to use a wireless bridge to connect my players to the server

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-21 Thread gharris999
Tarik;604110 Wrote: C:\windows\system32 I have checked the permissions on the file and it appears as ALL to the system and admin users, and read execute and read to other users. I am using the automatically run at system start option in the control panel. I think this means it is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-21 Thread Tarik
Sorry, it was SBS that I meant was starting automatically. I logged onto the server as the user that the service uses and issued the shutdown command as shown in my earlier post. This works. This would seem to rule out permissions. The shutdown from the Squeezebox still does not. -- Tarik

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-21 Thread gharris999
Tarik;604274 Wrote: Sorry, it was SBS that I meant was starting automatically. I logged onto the server as the user (specific user NOT local system account) that the service uses and issued the shutdown command as shown in my earlier post. This works. This would seem to rule out

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-20 Thread Tarik
Help! I have just installed the SvrPowerControl and SCPowerTool utility. When I run the shutdown command from a command prompt the system shuts down as expected. When run form the squeezebox or the webpage it does not work. A message is given that the system is shutting down but it never

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-20 Thread gharris999
Tarik;603890 Wrote: Help! I have just installed the SvrPowerControl and SCPowerTool utility. When I run the shutdown command from a command prompt the system shuts down as expected. When run form the squeezebox or the webpage it does not work. A message is given that the system is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-16 Thread Clnanderson
Thanks for your help with this, any suggestions for things to check is helpful for me, and I appreciate your willingness to help me out! Here's the sudoers entry squeezeboxserver ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Beta version of SvrPowerControl

2011-01-16 Thread gharris999
Clnanderson;602777 Wrote: Thanks for your help with this, any suggestions for things to check is helpful for me, and I appreciate your willingness to help me out! Here's the sudoers entry monitor idle players is unchecked in SrvrPowerCtrl settings the command line in the plugin

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