ProScan: ProScan recording long periods of silence overnight when windows 10 pc sleeps.

[etimothyd]

Everything else is working, just the overnight recording. I have to restart ProScan for it to record properly again.
Just recently switched to Windows 10, more recently updated BCD996P2 firmware.
Is anyone else experiencing something similar, or does everyone run there PC in High Performance mode?

 

[a417]

Is the PC actually sleeping? Programs don't run whilst it sleeps.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

What's your audio input source? Click the Audio Control tab and keep an eye on your threshold level. If it's higher than baseline green then you'll need to turn your audio input down and ensure threshold slider is slid just above the silence threshold so it stops recording silence. Make sure "Activity" button is chosen so recorder only activates when squelch is broken. More info on Pages 15 to 19 of Proscan manual

 

[etimothyd]

Thanks for your reply's
The PC is set for Screen off in 15 min, Sleep in 30 min.
I used the wrong words it should be blank instead of silence.
It records great all day long, But through the night all recordings are long blanks (2 min + ), even when the log shows a duration of a few seconds. Then I have to restart ProScan again for it to record normally then all is great until the next morning its the same thing all recordings through the night are blank.

 

[ka3aaa]

turn sleep mode off or set it to never. and check the record settings in proscan.

 

[etimothyd]

So this is normal behavior then?

 

[ProScan]

Everything else is working, just the overnight recording. I have to restart ProScan for it to record properly again.
Just recently switched to Windows 10, more recently updated BCD996P2 firmware.
Is anyone else experiencing something similar, or does everyone run there PC in High Performance mode?

Did it do that before upgrading to Win 10?
Are you using the Activity or VOX mode?

The next time it happens, before you restart ProScan, check the following:
1) See if the virtual display in ProScan is updating.
2) See if the History Logging is logging normally.
3) See if the audio meter moves in the Audio Control - Recorder tab.
4) If no audio in step 3 then change the Input Sound Device to None then back to what it was before.

Would you post the recording of the blank audio here.

 

[etimothyd]

Did it do that before upgrading to Win 10? ---------Not that I ever noticed.
Are you using the Activity or VOX mode?------------Activity

The next time it happens, before you restart ProScan, check the following:
1) See if the virtual display in ProScan is updating.--------------- I blieve it is updating
2) See if the History Logging is logging normally.---------------- History is seems to be logging ok
3) See if the audio meter moves in the Audio Control - Recorder tab.---------I'm sure they where
4) If no audio in step 3 then change the Input Sound Device to None then back to what it was before.

Would you post the recording of the blank audio here.-------------The blanks are not showing up in the recording folder, the blanks are on the Recorder Log tab when I highlight one and press the Play button there is just a couple minutes of silence.
Some of this is from memory, I will check in the morning to make sure.

Thanks for taking time to help.

P.S. I meant to ask, Can it record while the PC is asleep?

 

[wtp]

How to Turn Off Sleep Mode on Windows 10. To turn off sleep mode on a Windows 10 PC,
go to Settings > System > Power & sleep. Then select the drop-down menu under Sleep and choose Never.
If you're using a laptop, do this for battery mode as well.
computers tend to do nothing when asleep.

 

[ProScan]

P.S. I meant to ask, Can it record while the PC is asleep?

No. The serial port and sound device are inoperative when in sleep mode. Just change the power settings to never put it in sleep and turn off display after X minutes.

{edit} I never heard of this issue before.

[edit2}

I have to restart ProScan for it to record properly again.

I can't duplicate the problem. I ran some tests just now. Using Activity and VOX Recorder modes.
When I took the computer out of sleep, everything seemed normal and I didn't have to restart ProScan for the recorder to resume.

 

[etimothyd]

I was wondering if it had something to do with how long the pc stays in sleep mode, because it is in the morning when I notice this.
The pc was probably asleep for 6+ hours.

 

[etimothyd]

ProScan I have an update of sorts.
I has happened again after a shorter period of sleep.
I had set everything to "Each Trans. New Row" and was able to find the Blank recordings.

3) See if the audio meter moves in the Audio Control - Recorder tab. ------------ No movement
4) If no audio in step 3 then change the Input Sound Device to None then back to what it was before.----------Done this and recording normally again with no restart

Would you post the recording of the blank audio here.------ Yes

 

[ProScan]

3) See if the audio meter moves in the Audio Control - Recorder tab. ------------ No movement
4) If no audio in step 3 then change the Input Sound Device to None then back to what it was before.----------Done this and recording normally again with no restart

Thanks for the update. It looks like the sound input device didn't wake up for unknown reasons.
It still doesn't explain the original problem with "ProScan recording long periods of silence (blanks) overnight when windows 10 pc sleeps"
All I can do is keep an eye out for this. I don't have any ideals at this point in time.

 

[etimothyd]

Yes I think your right, nice to have it narrowed down to that.
I tried to update the drivers for my sound card, not good had to do a system restore.
But since the restore things seam to be working ,even getting proper recordings while in sleep mode, albeit
it is short periods of sleep. The test will be overnight.
Thanks again for you time.

 

[iMONITOR]

If it's not a laptop on battery power, just turn OFF any Power Save or Power Management settings. You're PC being on all the time will have little affect on your electric bill, or saving the planet for that matter.

 

[webstar22]

If you are getting recordings when you think it's sleeping then it really isn't. Your monitors are turning off but if your computer was going into true sleep mode you would not get recordings. Sleep mode suspends windows, it stops doing things.

You can have the screens turn off without issues, but going into sleep mode is somewhat counterproductive if you want to be recording comms.