This program is perfect for me. I have been trying to get my sons's computer to sleep when not in use. He often left VLC paused, which stopped it sleeping even if out all day or night. So I excluded vlc with power cfg -requestsoverride, which menat it went to sleep in the middle of a video. This will resolve that. The only thing I would prefer is for it to have an option to use the current power settings at the end of a video, rather than having them set in the program. In particular, currently you only have 60 seconds after VLC ends before it shuts down. If he is sitting on his bed watching a video, that will drive him crazy. In my opinion, it would be much better to always use the settings from Windows at that point (in my case 15 mins still monitor off, 3o mins till sleep)
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A "Use Windows Power Settings" option would definitely be a good idea. I will look to including it in the next version.
I'm not sure that Sleep# in its current version will solve the issue with your son's computer sleeping during the video or not sleeping at all when paused. How were you intending this to work with Sleep#? If your son pauses the video, then Windows will no longer be idle and Sleep# won't kick in: Sleep# requires both the video player to come out of full screen and the system to be idle to start the grace period/sleep function. Sleep# also shouldn't ever keep the system awake (in the case that you've used powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE with VLC). What version of Sleep# are you running?
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This program is perfect for me. I have been trying to get my sons's computer to sleep when not in use. He often left VLC paused, which stopped it sleeping even if out all day or night. So I excluded vlc with power cfg -requestsoverride, which menat it went to sleep in the middle of a video. This will resolve that. The only thing I would prefer is for it to have an option to use the current power settings at the end of a video, rather than having them set in the program. In particular, currently you only have 60 seconds after VLC ends before it shuts down. If he is sitting on his bed watching a video, that will drive him crazy. In my opinion, it would be much better to always use the settings from Windows at that point (in my case 15 mins still monitor off, 3o mins till sleep)
A "Use Windows Power Settings" option would definitely be a good idea. I will look to including it in the next version.
I'm not sure that Sleep# in its current version will solve the issue with your son's computer sleeping during the video or not sleeping at all when paused. How were you intending this to work with Sleep#? If your son pauses the video, then Windows will no longer be idle and Sleep# won't kick in: Sleep# requires both the video player to come out of full screen and the system to be idle to start the grace period/sleep function. Sleep# also shouldn't ever keep the system awake (in the case that you've used powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE with VLC). What version of Sleep# are you running?
Last edit: Chris Shields 2012-12-29