Hi,

Thank you.

Any idea where my TV tuner has a setting to control this (if any)? I think the program that came with the tuner (WinTV2000) has a setting named something like "enable hibernation", but as you know, I use AbelCam.

I have scheduled task that runs every 15 mins past, that uses psshutdown to hibernate, and one that runs at every hour that wakes up the computer again. So I almost have what I need, but it would be nice to avoid my own hibernate.

But there is also something that AbelCam don't like, look at this log file:

21:56:13 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 switched Video Input to Video Composite
21:56:14 One Device active
21:56:15 add device Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1
21:56:16 Start Local Save timer Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1
22:00:17 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 saved C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Ejer\Dokumenter\redekassen\capture\20080519220017.jpg 1
22:04:16 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 saved C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Ejer\Dokumenter\redekassen\capture\20080519220416.jpg 2
22:08:16 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 saved C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Ejer\Dokumenter\redekassen\capture\20080519220816.jpg 3
22:12:16 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 saved C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Ejer\Dokumenter\redekassen\capture\20080519221216.jpg 4
23:00:42 Deactivating Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1, too much time for capturing one frame...
23:00:49 No Device active
23:00:39 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 saved C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Ejer\Dokumenter\redekassen\capture\20080519230039.jpg 5
08:02:45 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 switched Video Input to Video Composite
08:02:46 One Device active
08:38:46 Deactivating Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1, too much time for capturing one frame...
08:38:51 No Device active
08:55:34 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 switched Video Input to Video Composite
08:55:34 One Device active
11:10:14 No Device active
11:10:21 Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture-1 switched Video Input to Video Composite
11:10:21 One Device active

I know from my own log file, that the computer has been active for 15 mins each hour durring the night.

When the computer woke up at 08:00, the Cam button was grey, and I pressed it and it got green, and preview was working. Isn't the "selfcheck" function supposed to "press" the Cam button itself, or didn't I wait enough? I have set the check time to 10 mins. I have now lowered it to 5 mins.

After 08:55 the computer has been on all time, and the preview open, so it seems to work, but the scheduled "save local file" seems not to be running?

/Morten

Hello Morten

the cam was deactivated because there was no frame captured for a long time.
The maximum time AbelCam waits for a frame is configured in cam.xml.
You may try to set a higher value for both
<MaxFrameWaitTime>7000</MaxFrameWaitTime>
and
<MaxErrorMessages>3</MaxErrorMessages>

This will help if the cam driver survives hibernation.

Otherwise, try running AbelCam as a service. When hibernating, execute

sc stop AbelService

when waking up execute

sc start AbelService

hhmm, something is not working correctly. All night it seems that the same picture has been saved over and over again.

I will try to install AbelCam as a service, and restart it now and then.

/Morten

Hello Morten,

you need to change abelservice.ini,
set UserInterface = Yes

see also Service Help Page

The help is right: the AutoStart option starts AbelCam after logging in,
when configured as Service AbelCam will start even when nobody is logged in.