USB-UIRT resume trouble

[Sheugel]

Hello,

I'm a very satisfied user of this great app. I recently bought a usb-uirt device. I notice that I'm not able to use the wake-up code flashed in the device. The wake-up "call" works however when Girder (v. 3.3) alone is loaded in memory. My system is Windows XP SP3.
I hope someone can help me to use that function in conjunction with EventGhost.
Thanks,

Sheugel

[RobWW]

I believe I am having the same problem with the USB-UIRT. Specifically, using the lrnhelper program I a set the USB-UIRT to resume my computer from S3 sleep when a specific IR command is sent. The resume works fine before EventGhost is started, or if I run Girder. However, once Eventghost has been started the USB-UIRT will not wake the computer (even though the red led flashes, indicating that it receives a signal.) All other functions (send, receive, etc) still work fine.

Interestingly, after exiting EventGhost or even rebooting the computer, the USB-UIRT will not wake the computer. To restore functionality, the USB-UIRT has to be physically unplugged. This made me think that EventGhost was somehow sending an incorrect configuration to the USB-UIRT. Looking at EventGhost\plugins\USB-UIRT\__init__.py, I tried commenting out the lines:

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if not self.dll.UUIRTSetUUIRTConfig(self.hDrvHandle, UINT32(value)):
    self.dll = None
    raise self.Exception("Error calling UUIRTSetUUIRTConfig")

However, the problem still occurred.

After commenting out some more dll calls, I eventually found that eliminating the lines:

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res = dll.UUIRTSetRawReceiveCallback(self.hDrvHandle, self.receiveProc, 0)
if not res:
    self.dll = None
    raise self.Exception("Error calling UUIRTSetReceiveCallback")

allowed the computer to resume from standby, however, as expected it would no longer register ir commands.

Hmm, as I was writing this, I decided to take a look at the symbols exported by uuirtdrv.dll. Changing UUIRTSetRawReceiveCallback to UUIRTSetReceiveCallback has solved the problem and resume works!

However, EventGhost now reports received events as: USB_UIRT.Unknown.880008023AA201003000080025100002400428025520708400020C600800D000B0 [many more digits trimmed] instead of USB_UIRT.Mce.Num2, so I am not sure if this is a good solution. Unfortunately, I have no idea what a good solution would be.

Hope this helps, Rob

[Bitmonster]

=> 0.3.7.r1076

[RobWW]

Thanks, that seems to have fixed it.

Also, thanks for all the work put into EventGhost. I really like the interface design - its the easiest to use remote software that I have tried.

Rob

[renan]

I did have the same problem and this is not fixed either using the 0.3.7.r1076 or the 0.3.7.r1194

I was using girder 3.2.9 on windows xp. Since i recently move to vista the master volume control automation is not working properly. So i was using 2 instance of girder: one girder 3.2.9 for my overall automation except the master volume and one girder5 for the volume control. girder5 is a trial version for 30 days. Everything was working fine and my usb-uirt was able to wake up my HTPC.

Then i discovered eventghost which present a great advantage over girder 3.2.9 to be able to control the master volume in vista. Just that i loose the possibility to wake up my pc when eventghost is running.

I use Xlobby, girder 3.2.9 for my overall automation and eventghost for the volume control.
if girder and eventghost are running the usb-uirt is not able to resume
if evenghost alone is running the usb-uirt is not able to resume
if girder is alone the usb-uirt works and resume.
Conclusion, it seems in my settings that eventghost block the wake up option of my usb-uirt.

If you have any idea , I would appreciate. thank you very much for that nice application.

[Driiven]

Hey all, I seem to be having the same trouble described above. If eventghost is running before I get to s3 I wont be able to resume from remote keypress but if eventghost is shutdown prior to s3 I can resume from standby with the remote no problem. Very weird indeed, anyone have any clues to how to get this working reliable? Thanks again

[mickelin]

Here is a workaround: Use Hibernate Trigger or similar to kill EG before standby and restart EG after resume

http://www.desimonesystems.com/suspendtrigger/index.php

[scat]

I have no trouble waking my computer up from S3 sleep
I have flashed the USB-UIRT and use my Harmony 880 to send the
request to the USB-UIRT to wake up the pc.

There are two guides
1.) using Girder
or
2.) using the USB-UIRT's Learn Helper Utility

I just posted a new guide here: http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtop ... 058#p11058

Scat