What constitutes 'No Activity'?

Windows 10 system, fully up to date. I have two monitors, and I have set my
Power Settings to power off monitor(s) after 10 minutes of inactivity.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Only thing going on at that point
in time is Deluge is running, but it usually isn't active that time of
night. Any ideas?

Tim wrote:
Windows 10 system, fully up to date. I have two monitors, and I have set my
Power Settings to power off monitor(s) after 10 minutes of inactivity.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Only thing going on at that point
in time is Deluge is running, but it usually isn't active that time of
night. Any ideas?

There is a setting for "multimedia activity". If your
machine is used as an HTPC, a movie player can register
itself to that effect, and even if there is no keyboard
or mouse activity, the computer will not go to sleep
in the middle of a movie.

See the Power schema editing list, and the setting might
be down near the bottom somewhere.

In this thread, a machine is refusing to sleep, for as
long as VLC (movie player) program is running (but not doing anything).
So here the feature works a little too well.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=92043

If I had to guess, Deluge (bittorrent client) is keeping
the machine awake. Try killing Deluge completely, wait
10 minutes, and it should sleep.

While you could modify the Power schema, there's no
guarantee that's the only way to keep the machine
awake. Maybe the programmers have other ways to do that.

*******

And there is plenty of command-line jazz out there.
Powercfg is full of tricks.

http://iboyd.net/index.php/2010/05/1...g-pc-insomnia/

Paul

Paul wrote in :

Tim wrote:
Windows 10 system, fully up to date. I have two monitors, and I have
set my Power Settings to power off monitor(s) after 10 minutes of
inactivity. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Only thing going
on at that point in time is Deluge is running, but it usually isn't
active that time of night. Any ideas?

There is a setting for "multimedia activity". If your
machine is used as an HTPC, a movie player can register
itself to that effect, and even if there is no keyboard
or mouse activity, the computer will not go to sleep
in the middle of a movie.

See the Power schema editing list, and the setting might
be down near the bottom somewhere.

In this thread, a machine is refusing to sleep, for as
long as VLC (movie player) program is running (but not doing
anything). So here the feature works a little too well.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=92043

If I had to guess, Deluge (bittorrent client) is keeping
the machine awake. Try killing Deluge completely, wait
10 minutes, and it should sleep.

While you could modify the Power schema, there's no
guarantee that's the only way to keep the machine
awake. Maybe the programmers have other ways to do that.

*******

And there is plenty of command-line jazz out there.
Powercfg is full of tricks.

http://iboyd.net/index.php/2010/05/1...agement-fixing
-pc-insomnia/

Paul

But I'm not trying to make the machine sleep, I just want the monitors to
shut off after a period of inactivity. My computer is in my bedroom, and
I hate to have to manually turn off each monitor every night so they
don't light up the room all night. (Plus, that's a waste of electricity
as well)
I have sleep turned off in my power settings so the system will not go
into sleep mode by itself, and as I said, have it set to power off
monitor(s) after ten minutes of inactivity. Something is registering as
active somewhere to keep the monitors from powering down. Hence my
question of what constitutes inactivity.

Tim wrote:
Paul wrote in :

Tim wrote:
Windows 10 system, fully up to date. I have two monitors, and I have
set my Power Settings to power off monitor(s) after 10 minutes of
inactivity. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Only thing going
on at that point in time is Deluge is running, but it usually isn't
active that time of night. Any ideas?
There is a setting for "multimedia activity". If your
machine is used as an HTPC, a movie player can register
itself to that effect, and even if there is no keyboard
or mouse activity, the computer will not go to sleep
in the middle of a movie.

See the Power schema editing list, and the setting might
be down near the bottom somewhere.

In this thread, a machine is refusing to sleep, for as
long as VLC (movie player) program is running (but not doing
anything). So here the feature works a little too well.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=92043

If I had to guess, Deluge (bittorrent client) is keeping
the machine awake. Try killing Deluge completely, wait
10 minutes, and it should sleep.

While you could modify the Power schema, there's no
guarantee that's the only way to keep the machine
awake. Maybe the programmers have other ways to do that.

*******

And there is plenty of command-line jazz out there.
Powercfg is full of tricks.

http://iboyd.net/index.php/2010/05/1...agement-fixing
-pc-insomnia/

Paul

But I'm not trying to make the machine sleep, I just want the monitors to
shut off after a period of inactivity. My computer is in my bedroom, and
I hate to have to manually turn off each monitor every night so they
don't light up the room all night. (Plus, that's a waste of electricity
as well)
I have sleep turned off in my power settings so the system will not go
into sleep mode by itself, and as I said, have it set to power off
monitor(s) after ten minutes of inactivity. Something is registering as
active somewhere to keep the monitors from powering down. Hence my
question of what constitutes inactivity.

Maybe entry to more than one state is
controlled by that "multimedia" setting ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acpi

The specs for ACPI are huge, and not particularly
suited to debugging these sorts of problems.

And the old dumppo.exe utility no longer works on Win10,
so we're stuck learning things with powercfg.

My guess is, just about every problem possible,
has been seen in the VLC forum.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=117337

AWAYMODE:
None.

When VLC is streaming data to another computer, there
is no reason to stop AwayMode.

HTH,
Paul

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Tim wrote:
Windows 10 system, fully up to date. I have two monitors, and I have set my
Power Settings to power off monitor(s) after 10 minutes of inactivity.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Only thing going on at that point
in time is Deluge is running, but it usually isn't active that time of
night. Any ideas?

What do you see in theEvent Logs?


Gary

On 8/22/2016 1:07 AM, Tim wrote:
Windows 10 system, fully up to date. I have two monitors, and I have set my
Power Settings to power off monitor(s) after 10 minutes of inactivity.
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Only thing going on at that point
in time is Deluge is running, but it usually isn't active that time of
night. Any ideas?

Go to an elevated command-prompt and type in the following command:

powercfg -requests

This will list all of the processes keeping your system active at that
instance.

Yousuf Khan