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I have 2 HTPC's which both used to work smoothly but after upgrading both to Gotham things aren't so nice. I want them both to sleep after a period of inactivity, usually 30 minutes. My main HTPC will sleep after 30 minutes with XBMC running but inactive, 2 or 3 times and then it will never sleep again until I manually put it to sleep or restart and let it sit again. Rise, repeat.
My second HTPC will sleep fine, mostly, but it's set to 30 minutes as well. It's located upstairs so I use WOL to wake it when I need to access it, copy media to it or whatever. Problem is it will stop responding to WOL commands after 5 or so tries. It also will not stay awake for more tha n10 minutes if I'm not using it directly and woke it with WOL. So I go upstairs and turn it on manually but when I go to watch it (I odn't always have the TV up there on) I find often it's actually shut down or XBMC isn't even running anymore.
Both machines have IR receivers for remote control. And both need to use WOL to wake so I don't have to traverse 2 flights of stairs to get it to wake up. Neither have any sleep settings set in XBMC, only Windows. Both set for screen to turn off after 10 minutes and computer to sleep after 30. They both used to work just fine but now.... not so well.
Any ideas what may be the issue? I can't deactivate the network cards from waking the PCs as I need WOL. I just can't figure it out.
I have 2 HTPC's which both used to work smoothly but after upgrading both to Gotham things aren't so nice. I want them both to sleep after a period of inactivity, usually 30 minutes. My main HTPC will sleep after 30 minutes with XBMC running but inactive, 2 or 3 times and then it will never sleep again until I manually put it to sleep or restart and let it sit again. Rise, repeat.
My second HTPC will sleep fine, mostly, but it's set to 30 minutes as well. It's located upstairs so I use WOL to wake it when I need to access it, copy media to it or whatever. Problem is it will stop responding to WOL commands after 5 or so tries. It also will not stay awake for more tha n10 minutes if I'm not using it directly and woke it with WOL. So I go upstairs and turn it on manually but when I go to watch it (I odn't always have the TV up there on) I find often it's actually shut down or XBMC isn't even running anymore.
Both machines have IR receivers for remote control. And both need to use WOL to wake so I don't have to traverse 2 flights of stairs to get it to wake up. Neither have any sleep settings set in XBMC, only Windows. Both set for screen to turn off after 10 minutes and computer to sleep after 30. They both used to work just fine but now.... not so well.
Any ideas what may be the issue? I can't deactivate the network cards from waking the PCs as I need WOL. I just can't figure it out.