[BUG] Resuming from standby causes XBMC to crash

Dam0 Wrote:i have been experiencing similar crashing/lack of display output when return from hibernate for a while now.

after power button to resume, if i get a blank screen, i have to hit reset button on pc to reboot. powerbutton again seems to put the pc to sleep, however the pc will resume again on next button press with blank screen output.

Dam0

I'm having same as Dam0, after resume app is up but no video can here navigation sounds so app running. I've programmed event ghost with a close and launch button to get round it but is a pain explaining it to missus

Just setup EventGhost to close XBMC when going to sleep and open it when resuming. That's what I did when I was on Windows.

RockDawg Wrote:Check out EventGhost. It will do that. It's how I deal with this problem on my machine.

But isn't EventGhost a remote control related software? I don't use any remote control and the way I send pc into standby and resume it is simply pressing the power button on case.
Do you mean I can setup EventGhost in such a way that when I turn on/off system from/to standby it could launch or close a given application?

You can use EventGhost without a remote. Just catch the sleep and resume events. You might need to write a batch file or something to close XBMC and then call that. To start it back up, just call the exe.

xanadu1979 Wrote:You can use EventGhost without a remote. Just catch the sleep and resume events. You might need to write a batch file or something to close XBMC and then call that. To start it back up, just call the exe.

Just to be sure to understand you, the batch file is needed because eventghost can't close a target application by itself?
If so, could you suggest me how to write this batch (which I suppose to be a dos command)?

Yeah, I don't think EventGhost has a command to kill a process. I could be wrong though. I switched to Ubuntu a few weeks ago so I can't look it up, sorry.

The script depends on which OS you are using. Look up taskkill and pskill on Google. You likely either have one or the other on your computer. You should just be able to pass it xbmc.exe.

Or, you could map a key to the built-in close app command in xbmc's keymap.xml and then have EventGhost hit the key for you. That might be safer than trying to kill the process. Just open keymap.xml and in the keyboard section under global add something like:
<z>XBMC.Quit</z>

You don't have to use z, just use a key that isn't already used. Then have EventGhost hit that key.

this bug still not fixed? just only after some svn, may be 18xxx...

now i ceased to try new svns until it is fixed.

yeah still a problem in latest build

xanadu1979 Wrote:You can use EventGhost without a remote. Just catch the sleep and resume events.

mmm...I'm trying doing this on eventghost but can't find a proper way.
As much as I understand this software, things work like this:

Plugin -> Macro -> Actions

Each plugin handles some events which user can intercept.
The problem is that I cannot see a system plugin nor any system "events" like standby...

Please test if it's still a problem with r19341.