IR wake up computer

[Sniper Ash6]

Hi

I got a WinTV-NOVA-TD yesterday and think its brilliant

The picture is clear and of brilliant quality and the tuner does a great job of recording two channels at once and waking my system up to record

My question however is, can i use the IR receiver on the NOVA-TD with my Harmony One remote to wake up my computer?

Id like to press the Watch TV activity and for my computer to wake up, open MC and my TV to switch to DVI and my amp to Coax. Now i can do all of these except get it to wake up
This is the only thing missing from having the perfect experience of this product

Thanks very much

SA6

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[Spock85]

it may work but i dont know if the Hardware (The card and your PC) support this.

Some PC´s (Bios and mainboard) may support "Wake UP" on PCI events

Hmm as i see this card is an USB i dont know if your system does support this wake up on USB event function.

On my system it should work i must set an Jumper that the USB has also Power if the PC is shutdown and than i must change a value in the Bios that he accepts USB Events for Powering on.

If you have such functions too it may work. Look at your Mainboard Manual and the Bios for this.

But i dont know if the WinTV-NOVA-TD supports such functions. So you can have activated the Function in your Bios and it does still not work

[Sniper Ash6]

The NOVA-TD can wake my computer up from the S3 sleep to record but i want to be able to wake it up via sending a "power on" signal to the NOVA-TD which will wake the computer up

Does that make sense?

SA6

[Mr X]

you need an MCE remote and USB receiver for this to work

[Sniper Ash6]

you need an MCE remote and USB receiver for this to work
Is there anyway this functionality could be added to the NOVA-TD via an update as it can already wake the computer up to record?

I have a speedlink receiver but that wakes the computer up from any IR signal eg if i turn the volume up on my amp. Not waiting for a certain signal

Cheers again

[Mr X]

No, the Device's IR doesn't have the capability to wake from sleep.

During a scheduled recording it's not the device waking it up, it's the software on the PC.

[Sniper Ash6]

Does WMC schedule it to wake up then as I dont use WinTV?

Is there anyway to stop the above mentioned receiver waking up from any IR command though please?

[TheNewGuy]

When you schedule a recording, whether in WinTV or WMC or other software, the app askes windows to wake the machine at the specified time. Windows stores that wakeup request motherboard BIOS, which takes care of the request.

For waking the machine from standby with a remote, this only really works because of PC's having 'wake on USB' functionality on the motherboard. We dont have any control over the exact specifics of how it behaves.

[Sniper Ash6]

So any USB receiver will wake the computer on any IR signal as there is nothing there to interpret what the signal actually means?

I know its not exactly related to the NOVA-TD but its nice to get an answer, i asked elsewhere and never really got any replies

Thanks

[Sniper Ash6]

Bump

[TheNewGuy]

So any USB receiverMost receivers. There are certainly some IR receivers out there that cant wake a machine


So any USB receiver will wake the computer on any IR signal as there is nothing there to interpret what the signal actually means?Thats my understanding. ie, its a bios type thing, and no software running to look at what specific button was pressed. Much like any key on your keyboard will wake a computer from stand by (assuming the option is enabled in your bios).

[Sniper Ash6]

Yeah that makes sense, thanks

I have a USB receiver that can wake the computer but as stated it will wake the computer up on any signal, but i see what you mean

Thanks again