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I put my media center into Standby direct from Live TV

When bringing it back from Standby I am hit with a RESUME button in the middle of the screen

Clicking this brings up the last channel I was watching on Live TV.

Question is there a way I can go direct from standby to live TV without having to hit the resume button

All contibutions will be gratefully accepted especially if it cures this extremely small niggle

Thankyou in advance

You're pressing 'pause' or 'stop' first, before putting the machine in ot standby, aren't you?  That's why you get the resume button on-screen.

 

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~Chris
'nearly every day of my life is some kind of computer hell'

Desktop: Shuttle SN41 (AthlonXP 2700+), AIW, T550, PVR-USB2, HDHR; server: Intel E6400 on I965P mobo, 2GB RAM, 2x 500GB WD, PVR500, NV DualTV, Saber2020, 2xHDHR; Xbox MCX, Xbox360

No just the off button on the remote

judging by your reply it should be normal to resume live tv direct from standby is this correct

on putting pc into standby using the on/off switch on the keyboard/remote  the media center is going into resume on its own.  
Is their a way around this to make the pc go into standby so that when bringing it back from stanby it goes direct to TV

Hmmm.  Must experiment a bit with that (I don't often use Standby on my MCE desktop, except when it's 80+ degrees out), adn I don't bother at all on the server (it's in the basement.  Noise & heat aren't a problem there.)

Will get back to you in a bit, after I play around with that.  :?

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~Chris
'nearly every day of my life is some kind of computer hell'

Desktop: Shuttle SN41 (AthlonXP 2700+), AIW, T550, PVR-USB2, HDHR; server: Intel E6400 on I965P mobo, 2GB RAM, 2x 500GB WD, PVR500, NV DualTV, Saber2020, 2xHDHR; Xbox MCX, Xbox360

I'd like some input on this as well. I'd like MCE to act more like a TV, and less like a computer. It would be AWESOME if it could automatically resume the last thing it was doing before it was put to sleep.

Or, maybe this would cause problems when it wakes up by itself to do a scheduled recording?

Thanks,

Jeff

Have you guys tried the MCE Standby Tool. It closes ehome at suspend and lets you choose in which page to restart after standby.

A future version will possibly get an option not to close and restart but just jump to the selected page. 

Herman

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Slick Solutions - home of the MCE Standby Tool (MST) and LEDSdriver

This is agreat looking tool!  Right now I'm finishing up building a MCE 2k5 box for the bedroom nd something like this will go a long way.  I'll let you know how it works!

 

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Ghostlobster
Very happy convert to SageTV! Finally, watching ESPN-HD in real HD on my HTPC without having to deal with the CableCARD fiasco!

What button are you pressing to bring your MCE out from standby? Wouldn't pressing the LiveTV button on the remote make it always go to LiveTV?

hveijk:

Have you guys tried the MCE Standby Tool. It closes ehome at suspend and lets you choose in which page to restart after standby.

A future version will possibly get an option not to close and restart but just jump to the selected page. 

Herman

I use this and it's awesome.  I had all kinds of standby problems, and this in combination with Hibernator (http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/hibernator/4090-arksoft-releases-hibernator-take-control-your-machine.html) fixed them all.  But yeah, if you just want to resume to live TV give MCE Standby Tool a try.

    Here I am 2 1/2 years worth of water under the bridge since my first question and still with Media Center 2005 albeit on a new computer but still with 2 Black Gold cards from my original machine and a USB Pinnacle DVB_T Stick Solo with  2GB DDR2 800 RAM , AMD Dual Core 4400+ Processor,GForce 8500  PCIe on a MSI K9VGM-V motherboard  in a Trendsonic case with a 700Watt Thermaltake supply with cable management infra red mouse and keyboard for service and a media center keyboard for general control of the system
SPDif to Sony Tuner Amp
DSub to Hitatchi 42" Plasma screen
resolution set to 1024x768 at 60hz colour set to 38 bit
and in media center zoom set to 3

Software
Media Center 2005 SP2 bang up to date
( SP3 total disaster rolled back to SP2 found this on my bedroom machine as well which has the same specs as my living room machine )
---AVG Free AntiVirus---Media Center Config Reset---Nvidia Decoder
MCE Standby Tool---Iobit Smart Defrag---MCE Tuner Extender---Decoder Checker---Advanced Windows Care---
       Now for my latest In the near future I am going to convert one of my media center machines to Vista
       At this present moment in town our house consists of
3 Media Center Machines running Media Center 2005 and
2 General machines running XP
all these machines are networked
My question is
Vista Ultimate or Vista Home Premium
and what would persuade you to choose
Regards
Vic

Neither, booo to Vista. MCE2005 FTW! All SP3 issues are fixable, btw.