eskro Posted November 21, 2011 Report Posted November 21, 2011 How to make your PC SLEEP/WAKE by pressing a button on your Remote? (Windows Only) if you want to make your PC SLEEP/WAKE using a button on your remote, this is easy,,, first disable the hibernate feature on your PC 1. type CMD in Start menu search box area and then hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter 2. try/type either of these 2 commands here and then hit enter: powercfg /hibernate off or powercfg -h off 3. hibernate should be OFF now... then follow these steps to create a windows shortcut that would make your HTPC sleep when double-clicking on it A ) Right click on a empty area on desktop, and click on New and Shortcut. B ) Type rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState into the location area, and click on the Next button C ) Type Sleep for the name, and click on the Finish button (You can name this anything you would like though) Now Important, if you want to move your shortcut elsewhere, do it now! Ok so, once moved to where you want it, right-click on it, then assign a keyboard shortcut to it, example, CTRL + ALT + S refer here if you have problems doing so http://thecustomizew...with-windows-7/ then, using FLIRC's GUI, select the FULL KEYBOARD controller for a sec, click on CTRL + ALT + S, so that those 3 keys appear in green on your screen and then record this key combination to your desired button on your remote... Now, if all goes well, when you'll press that recorded button on your remote, it'll emulate like if u would press CTRL + ALT + S on your keyboard and this means windows will go to SLEEP!! Night Night :) 1 Quote
svtfmook Posted January 3, 2012 Report Posted January 3, 2012 once the computer is asleep, and you have wake enabled on usb in device manager and in bios, will the same key combination wake the computer too? so if this is assigned to my harmony as power toggle, it can sleep and wake the computer? or does the ctrl/alt mess up wake on keyboard? Quote
Chris! Posted January 3, 2012 Report Posted January 3, 2012 Sorry to bounce you around threads but waking FLIRC is still in beta (have you got this firmware?). So i believe you should be able to. Quote
PEDRORADIO Posted March 24, 2012 Report Posted March 24, 2012 eskro nice tips, thank you..but i just want to add something happened to me.. for win7 64 you need to have the top rights : first as admininistrator , second : even as inside an administrator group; you dont have the all permition into the system32 . so you need to manually change ; point to rundll32.exe - right click - security tab - advance: 1) change the " OWNER " to you..( all system installation on win7 by default created -"TrustedInstaller " user as owner ) with full control..dont delete the user , just change the top comannd lien to your user.. 2) add all permitions pointing your admin user name. and save 3) go out and in again and double check that you are the MAN..in the list after i did this .. my " SLEEP " shortcut works perfect.. by the way : make your backup or system restore point before change something inside the win7 64- system32 ..in that way you dont need to cross the fingers..and i dont want to give you a wrong path for screw up your system .. that is a great forum very instructive .. and the FLIRC is a rockkkk !!... thanks Jason good luck all :) Quote
digitalb0y Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 I could put together a similar guide for Linux users if there's demand for such a thing... Quote
Chris! Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 Please do! I'll definitely give it an inquisitive read. :) Quote
amcfarla Posted April 16, 2012 Report Posted April 16, 2012 I could put together a similar guide for Linux users if there's demand for such a thing... I would definitely appreciate it, since I just purchased two of these to replace MCE remotes for XBMCbuntu systems that I have been struggling with to get everything working correctly. Quote
digitalb0y Posted April 21, 2012 Report Posted April 21, 2012 Well, I was all set to write such a thing, but I'm still having trouble with wake using Flirc with XBMCbuntu. I got suspend working correctly from the command line and I can wake it by enabling wakeup on the proper USB bus, but whenever I plug a Flirc into a port on that bus, the machine wakes immediately after I suspend it. Jason is working on another approach for sleep/wake on Linux machines, so as soon as a version of Flirc firware is available that behaves as expected, I'll document everything I've tried so far. Quote
amcfarla Posted April 22, 2012 Report Posted April 22, 2012 Well, I was all set to write such a thing, but I'm still having trouble with wake using Flirc with XBMCbuntu. I got suspend working correctly from the command line and I can wake it by enabling wakeup on the proper USB bus, but whenever I plug a Flirc into a port on that bus, the machine wakes immediately after I suspend it. Jason is working on another approach for sleep/wake on Linux machines, so as soon as a version of Flirc firware is available that behaves as expected, I'll document everything I've tried so far. Thanks for the update. Quote
digitalb0y Posted April 27, 2012 Report Posted April 27, 2012 Thanks for the update. Sure thing, thanks for your patience. Here's what I've put together so far: Quote
sion Posted May 16, 2012 Report Posted May 16, 2012 HI Guys im new here :) i have conf my Flirc , works pretty nice , now i have create sleep / awake ..... the part how goes sleep works, but awake works not;( , whois my error :( i have try this step if you want to make your PC SLEEP/WAKE using a button on your remote, this is easy,,, first disable the hibernate feature on your PC 1. type CMD in Start menu search box area and then hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter 2. try/type either of these 2 commands here and then hit enter: powercfg /hibernate off or powercfg -h off 3. hibernate should be OFF now.. but he say i have no acces for change , i dont no is important or not .. my problem is only awake ;) need help many thx i know my english is crap i hope u have all understanding :) greetz EDIT works now all ;) Quote
dieburnbot Posted July 20, 2012 Report Posted July 20, 2012 Any idea why this isn't working for me? I made the shortcut and moved it to the Documents folder where I want to keep it. When I double click on the shortcut the computer goes to sleep. So I know the shortcut works. I right clicked on it and set the shortcut to Ctrl+Alt+S and when I press that on the keyboard nothing happens... I don't understand why it isn't working I have XBMC set up to use Ctrl+Alt+x and that shortcut works fine, but the one for sleep won't do anything. Any ideas? I'm on Windows 7 32 Bit btw Quote
furnbird Posted August 18, 2012 Report Posted August 18, 2012 I am back using my MCE remote + hamony One as i can not use flirc to wake or shutdown WIn 7 64bit XBMC pc... The short cut i made works but the remote button doesnt work... I have tried a few things and am on the lastest firmware V6.. Shame is it is a great product with xbmc...Until this is part of the software and firmware i cant us eit on my main HTPC... Quote
tbs Posted August 18, 2012 Report Posted August 18, 2012 @furnbird Try to use autohotkey script, this is what I use here: ;Sleep system: (ctrl+shift+f11) ^+F11:: DllCall("PowrProf\SetSuspendState", "int", 0, "int", 0, "int", 0) return Quote
bdsargent Posted August 29, 2012 Report Posted August 29, 2012 Running Win7: I've got a remote button mapped to the 'Sleep' shortcut, and it works great...as long as I leave the shortcut on my desktop. Even if I move the shortcut file to another folder BEFORE assigning a keyboard shortcut, machine will not sleep on remote press. Wake button works great with FW v6. I'm happy it's working, but I love a clean desktop. Any ideas? Edit: I can hide the shortcuts on the desktop by making them 'hidden' and then telling Windows not to show hidden files. A little inconvenient as I like to have ready access to Windows' hidden files/folders. Quote
vid53 Posted September 29, 2012 Report Posted September 29, 2012 My remote will only put my pc in sleep stage, but will not wake it up. Is there anything else i can try.I hit ctrl-alt-s on the keyboard it wakes up Quote
Arkitekt Posted September 29, 2012 Report Posted September 29, 2012 I am also trying to get Flirc to allow the PC to wake. I have located the device in the device manager, under libusb (Win USB) devices, listed as flirc. However, there is no power management tab so I cannot allow it to wake the computer :( Does anyone know why it does not have the power management tab? or perhaps how to give it the tab? Quote
vid53 Posted September 30, 2012 Report Posted September 30, 2012 Does it take a long time My remote will only put my pc in sleep stage, but will not wake it up. Is there anything else i can try.I hit ctrl-alt-s on the keyboard it wakes up Also does it take a long time for the pc to come out of sleep? It goes to sleep very fast. Quote
siulas Posted November 28, 2012 Report Posted November 28, 2012 Could someone please confirm that this works on Win8? I followed all steps but it seems that whenever I hit sleep button nothing happens. Quote
mrsquish Posted December 11, 2012 Report Posted December 11, 2012 Hi All, Tried this on my new Win7 HTPC and it works to put the machine to sleep. I did have one issue whereby you need to put the shortcut somewhere in the users Start Menu folder structure (otherwise it doesn't work). I found that answer somewhere on the net. Now the problemm is, I can't get Flirc to wake it back up. I think the root cause of this is that the keyboard it presents to the Windows OS doesn't have a power management tab (as mentioned previously), I've googled it a bit and it would seem that it's a driver\device issue given that most of the responses to fix it are to update\reinstall drivers, but these are on normal keyboard devices. Does anyone else have a Power Management Tab on their Flirc keyboard device? Quote
jason Posted December 11, 2012 Report Posted December 11, 2012 Can you guys list out your motherboards that experience this issue? I'm going to pick one up. Quote
a_team Posted December 17, 2012 Report Posted December 17, 2012 Hi everyone, I can't seem to get the power off to work with the ctrl+alt+s shortcut when I'm in XBMC. It works when I'm on the desktop. I have it on Windows 8. I had to put a link on the taskbar and use the Windows button + 2 to launch the link. The issue is that when I do it this way upon wakeup the xbmc is no longer selected in the taskbar and the remote no longer controls Xbmc. Does anyone know how to set this up properly? Quote
Chris! Posted December 18, 2012 Report Posted December 18, 2012 You could map a button to alt+tab (I think that's the shortcut to switch apps). Then you can switch to XBMC. Quote
Ellisd25 Posted March 10, 2013 Report Posted March 10, 2013 yeah worked great for sleeping which is cool, 1 more awesome thing flirc can do! But all i wanna do is wake from usb and there is no power management tab for this device's properties in device manager. I really think thats the problem here. im using win7, asus p8z77-m ivy bridge core i3 by the way one guy asked how to hide the icon all you have to do is change the icon to a blank icon in the default windows collection. which is located at C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll just right click the icon and go to properties and then change icon. You can get ultimate windows tweaker for windows seven to disable the shortcut little arrow. I think there is something you can change the name of a icon to, like blank, or null to make it disapear, you would have to google that. It's a secret Quote
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