Bugzilla – Bug 7202
Link power management settings/timeouts to the players current state (i.e. playing)
Last modified: 2011-03-16 04:47:09 UTC
The current behaviour can cause some annoyance when you have to wait for a new network and server connection (parties when an emergency track change is required, or a 65 min long album ends, or internet radio cuts out). Should the state of the currently selected player not also be a factor? I.e. if the player is playing music, surely it should be expected that we will want to use the remote again in the near future. So what i propose is; * No music playing/SB off + No controller activity for 1 hour = Controller sleep. * Music playing/SB active + No controller activity for 1 hour = don't sleep. after music stops, wait 10 mins, then sleep. And maybe also; * Music playing/SB active + Infra-red usage detected + No controller activity for 1 hours = sleep.
Dean, comments?
bump Dean
I think we should enhance the power management to take the state of playing in the player into account when sleeping the controller, though I'm not sure the suggestions here are exactly right. I'd like to know what the expected battery life is when staying connected in order to tune this value. Ross: how long does the battery last if the controller doesn't go into deep sleep?
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeOS_Internals By deep sleep we're talking about suspend.
Back to you Dean. 4.6 days according to the wiki.
I don't believe that Jive will run for 4.6 days in any power mode, except maybe "off". Is it possible for you to test this by actually running down the battery and not by using an ammeter?
After 4 days and 4 hours SBC stopped functioning and now only displays Battery Low please charge me. I left it on my desk and checked it 3 times per day since 2:45pm 6/19/08 (except Saturday and Sunday)
Very good Ross. Dominic: The battery will last less than 19 hours total if we stay connected while playing music. What's your impression of consuming battery while playing? Richard: What's your take on this? I think you mentioned that this would be a good idea in your mind.
I think this is a good idea, and one that I originally wanted to implement but we went for the simple approach for the first release. Let's tentatively target for 7.3.
This won't make 7.3.
Ross, we made some changes in 7.3.3. Please comment, and close or reassign as appropriate.
See also bug 11824. If the player is playing Controller will suspend at 40 minutes, if the player is not playing it will suspend after 20 minutes.
This bug has been marked as fixed in the 7.4.0 release version of SqueezeBox Server! * SqueezeCenter: 28672 * Squeezebox 2 and 3: 130 * Transporter: 80 * Receiver: 65 * Boom: 50 * Controller: 7790 * Radio: 7790 Please see the Release Notes for all the details: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Release_Notes If you haven't already, please download and install the new version from http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/support/download-squeezebox-server.html If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.