fraenhawk 58 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Since updating to 182 I've noticed that if I play anything with MBC, when I press the power button on the remote (which is set in Win 7 to put HTPC to sleep) the display will go off (TV goes to No Signal) but the PC never finishes going to sleep. This is on all of my HTPCs (all Win 7, one x64, two x86). I did some more experimenting. It doesn't matter if I'm using the old or new interface. 1) If I launch WMC fresh and press power, PC goes to sleep all the way (hear all fans, HD switch off) 2) If I launch WMC and MBC and press power, PC goes to sleep. 3) If I launch WMC and MBC and play a show, then press stop and power, video signal goes off but PC never goes to sleep. If I press power the video signal restores and MBC is still on the same screen that it left off on. I run MCE Standby Tool so I know that after a proper sleep, I should always get a nice fresh copy of WMC, which I do in scenarios one and two. So even though on the kids HTPC I'm not running the new interface, makes me think there's some underlying change that doesn't have to do with the new player that's also changed. I'll do some more experimenting to see if I can find out what "sleep preventers" Windows might be reporting, but thought I'd post in case you figure it out faster than me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I think I know what this is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satellietje 7 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Same here on 2 PC's with version 3.0.182.0 6-12.1 If I go to the root of Media center and then press the power button, the pc will go in sleep mode. But if MB Classic is started, the PC does not go off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibbles 21 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 I too have experienced this according to the MCE standby tool "show sleep blockers" button, it is not closing the file connection to the last file played. Not sure if this is a server issue or MBC. I'm pretty sure if I enter MBC without playing any media then the HTPC will still sleep, but not after playing a file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 As I said, I think I know what this is. However, not closing the file is WMC and should not be affecting sleep. It has done that since the update to Win 7 and we've been having to work around it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraenhawk 58 Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 Installed .186 last night and was able to put two of the machines into standby late last night. Will do some more testing tonight to make sure everything's back to normal. Thanks ebr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14924 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Thanks for the follow-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibbles 21 Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 .184 and .186 both allow the HTPC to sleep again. Love your work ebr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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