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[nsmal24]

Sure enough. Worked flawlessly with elevation.

[nsmal24]

I'm not sure that's the problem actually.  Since Emby was already running elevated, I figured I would go ahead and reschedule some shows.  I set up a show for Tuesday night at 8pm and the wake timer showed up for 7:53 PM.  I then scheduled one for a couple of hours from now and nothing changed.  The wake timer still showed Tuesday at 8.  I'm not sure if it is supposed to show more than one at a time, but either way, it definitely was not showing the timer that will expire the soonest.

 

Also, it did schedule the Big Bang Theory for later this week or next before it was running elevated.  I think it's behaving the same as it did before.  I couldn't tell you what caused the BBT wake timer to be replaced though.

[Luke]

I set it for 5 minutes prior to starting the recording, including padding. I did find other documentation about the windows api call that we're using requiring elevation, so based on that I can't really commit to spending much time on this because nobody is really going to want to run the server that way.

[nsmal24]

I set it for 5 minutes prior to starting the recording, including padding. I did find other documentation about the windows api call that we're using requiring elevation, so based on that I can't really commit to spending much time on this because nobody is really going to want to run the server that way.

 

No problem.  Thanks for working on it.  I'll dig up a way to keep it awake during prime time TV hours (scheduled tasks, 3rd party app, etc.).

[inzombyac]

Ok, I think the answer might be that it requires elevation, and if that's true that pretty much kills this feature because nobody's going to want to do that.

 

In order to test, you can find the server executable and run it as admin. Then create a new recording.

 

What's the current state of recordings and wake? I tried this out the other day and did not see any wake timers. If it requires the server process to run with elevated permissions I'm ok with this.

[Luke]

Due to this requirement being a little too prohibitive we disabled it and stopped working on it.

[inzombyac]

That's unfortunate. Hopefully this will change in the future.  For now I'll need to keep WMC around in order to record.  

[Luke]

Leave feedback with Microsoft that you would like these api's to be accessible without elevation.

[tmm1]

I set it for 5 minutes prior to starting the recording, including padding. I did find other documentation about the windows api call that we're using requiring elevation, so based on that I can't really commit to spending much time on this because nobody is really going to want to run the server that way.

 

Do you recall where you saw that *WaitableTimer functions require elevation?

 

I cannot find anything to this effect in the Microsoft documentation. I did find, however, that you have to change "Allow Wake Timers" to "Enabled" (from the default "Important Wake Timers Only") before they work. See http://stackoverflow.../3764944/332798 and https://www.howtogeek.com/122954/how-to-prevent-your-computer-from-waking-up-accidentally/

 

[Luke]

@tmm1, i can't seem to find it, but if you want to help, try downloading the binary of this app:

 

https://www.codeproj...-or-hibernation

 

and using it to schedule a wake event. See if that works. Thanks !

[nsmal24]

@tmm1, i can't seem to find it, but if you want to help, try downloading the binary of this app:

 

https://www.codeproj...-or-hibernation

 

and using it to schedule a wake event. See if that works. Thanks !

 

I went ahead and tested this b/c the other guy never replied.  That program wakes my server every time!  I am certain that I did not run the executable elevated.  I also ensured that Windows UAC was on the default settings (to make sure it wasn't elevating automagically).  I did run powercfg /lastwake to confirm what woke the computer.  It was a timer set by the program above.

 

I am ready to be done with WMC as my DVR so this is very exciting news!

[Luke]

Thanks for the feedback, that's very good to know.

[Luke]

We can look into setting wake timers, thanks.

[Luke]

This will be coming to the Windows Server two releases from now:

 

 

Enjoy.

[nsmal24]

This will be coming to the Windows Server two releases from now:

 

 

Enjoy.

 

Awesome.  I look forward to giving it a try again!  Thank you.