Cliff Watson EPG add-on for MyHD, FusionHDTV, and HD Homerun - Page 118

Is this in WinXP? I had a few sleep issues that were resolved for the most part (works about 90% of the time now) by doing the following (in XP)...

- Setting up Power Options so that the PC goes into standby mode (not hibernate) after 15 minutes. Additionally, I found that it helps to disable all other forms of power save features under Power Options, i.e. Harddrive standby = Never, Monitor off = Never, etc.

- Disable any screensavers or wallpaper changers.

- Disabling anything that puts up a "nag screen", i.e. when Flash Player detects a new update and puts up a window asking "Do you want to install update?" Nag screens have consistently kept my PC awake beyond the 15 minute window set under Power Options.

Hope this helps

Not using MyHd for recordings, I have been using CW for recordings and thought CW automatically went back to sleep after each recording (though I have not been here so don't know for sure - maybe sleep power management settings kicked in). Didn't MyHD go back to sleep immediately after a recording or between recordings, and you are saying CW does not?

Yes using XP here, thanks for input. Standby did not work for me but maybe will try again, and tinker with rest of hardware power settings. HIbernate has been good for single recordings but hit or miss if more that one. Also, if I manually awake after a recording system always crashes when I open CW EPG?

Update: Just tried a stand by recording and was bad - it woke 90 seconds before but looked like system crashed again on the hour when CW started.

TP, on your advice I just changed MyHD capture settings from do not exit after and between recordings to exit MyHD. I did notice that MyHD has option to hibernate or standby after or between recordings - are you saying that it does not have this option? Also changed power setting to hibernate after 1/2 ihour instead of standy after 1/2 hour - that may have been causing my crashes after manually opening CW after recording - me not like standby.

Why not have forced hibernate option in CW? I deem web surfing and IPTV part of HT so 30 minutes is probably not long enough.

Homerhd

PS Don't know if you're still taking suggestions but option for start/stop times other than on the hour or half hour would be nice. I've only been using CW EPG with MyHD and HDhomerun for about a month and can now see how great a scheduler it is. I've used many tuners/software including media center and have never seen one that did not allow adjustments on start/stop times -what's up with that?

Is CW EPG propitiatory or open source? Since integrated with MyHD/Fusion assume not open, but HDhomerun is open source and works great with CW EPG - a little more open source on this side would be nice.

Good luck with that. Most Windows programs are one size fits all.

Hibernate option could easily be proceeded by an audio pop up asking if you would like to hibernate, if no answer then go to sleep. In my case 90% of recordings are while I'm gone so barely an issue here. Waking from hibernate is more of problem for me cause it is time consuming to wake but again pop ups or checking for running apps before hibernating would be good.
Maybe there is something on pad times that I'm missing. As I understand, start time can be increased up to 15 minutes and end time increased up to 15 minutes. Tonight show goes from 10:30 to 11;30. Please tell me how this limited option allows for "season passing" the fifteen minute slot from 11:00 to 11:15?
Also wondering if those pad times apply to all programs or if each program can be assigned individual "pads"?

One size fits all. Don't say I didn't tell you.

Terry, please tell me how you really feel about having a hibernate option?

I read and see how padding can be program specific. Sorry

Since my MyHD can not tune NBC I have no idea how I can record that NBC in MyHD tuner. HDhomerun tuner picks up NBC so I think the best I can do for that 15 minute slot is to record 45 minutes (10:45 to 11:30 wasting 1/2 hour multiplied by a season).

Homer

Reception is marginal so I use HDhomerun for CW to record.

That's funny! If it matters MyHD can reliably pick up only about a third of my channels - that was a major reason for getting HdHomerun and now CW EPG. HdHomerun picks them all up clearly. Also, there are some half hour shows that I only want to record 5 minutes of for the whole season, and football games often go over 15 minutes.


homer

Negative padding would be solid. Will check out Record This - thanks again!


Homerhd

I don't like telling folks to mess with the configuration files, and I do so now stating that if you muck it up and have to wipe out and start over, don't come whining to me.

With that said...... The current CW-EPG does not allow one to set negative padding. However, you CAN set a negative start (delay) or negative end (end early) by manipulating the watchlist.csv file located in your CW-EPG program directory. The 4th element is the start time padding and the 5th is the end time padding. If they are blank, then the CW-EPG default padding time is used.

Example:
R,Big Brother,C,"","",EP,"","","","",""
R,The Amazing Race,C,1,15,EP,"","","","",""

If you were to set for instance the starting pad to -15 (no quotes) the matched program would start 15 minutes after it is scheduled to air and the same goes for the end time, i.e, -30 would end the program 30 minutes early.

So for instance, you should be able to capture the 5th thru 20th minute of Leno (assuming it is 1 hr in length) by:

R,The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,C,-5,-40,EP,"","","","",""

Careful... If you put values in there that cause bad times, i.e., delay time that causes a start time after the program is over, you will receive a "Too Near Completion" error message and there will be no capture scheduled.

Again, USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK OF SCREWING UP SCHEDULING AND LOSING CAPTURES!!!!

That file is not in my Cliff Watson EPG Project program directory?

Update: Never mind - just noticed it is a hidden file. Thank you!!!
Time to start mucking.

That worked! Now I'm wondering what the options are after 4th and 5th entrees? Any other tips/tricks you have for options and or usage would be greatly appreciated.

homerhd

Those are filter time blocks, station filters, etc....

Ok I think I see that. Any other tricks in other good mucking areas?

Ah....Cool TP.

Well....Pass it around.

All you folk do an absolutely great job with CW_epg.

W.R.T MyHD MDP-130 used in conjunction with CW_EPG, does it matter whether the "Enable wakeup from suspend" option is set or not under MyHD's configuration settings? I am currently running my WinXP machine to go into hibernate after 15 minutes(not standby as it was before, you convinced me to switch to hibernate mode). I am just wondering if the "Enable wakeup from suspend" mode in MyHD matters as far as CW_EPG is concerned when performing automatically scheduled tasks. Thanks.