General question re ZP & PC

[shabbysquire]

I'm running all projects on home PC. Is it possible to have ZP complete projects, then put PC into 'sleep' mode? Or just switch off PC?

Thanks.

 

[lokiys]

Yes you can monitor project threads with bat file and when there is o threads then just kill zennoposter and shutdown pc again with bat file...

 

[LexxWork]

yes.
Maybe you have to implement something like signalisation about all your projects completed. May be it would be a shared list with reports from all projects you launched with statuses. The separate project would act as a watcher of list and should be run finalization script (hibernate, sleep, poweroff)
How to implement finalization, read this.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6351861/how-to-initiate-standby-sleep-from-command-lineA

I think, lokiys's method is much more simple. You have only to write batch script

 

[shabbysquire]

Right, I remember reading up on batch years ago.

I'm able to create batch for hibernation, but am stuck when monitoring threads (as Lokiys mentioned earlier) when it goes down to: 0.

 

[lokiys]

Just put our suggestions together and you will get solution...

Do like this:

Create shared list where you have to save:

Project1=Active
Project2=Active
Project3=Active

When Project1 is finished you have to delete line from this file.
Same with other projects.

With other Monitor.xmlz check every 5 min in loop if there is lines in file, If empty then hibernate.

 

[shabbysquire]

The shared list is a good idea. So monitor.xmlz checks if shared list file is empty. If yes, then write hibernation string to batch file, then save?

 

[LexxWork]

If yes, then write hibernation string to batch file, then save?

Then you have to run the batch file (or the script directly from the monitor project) end exit.

 

[lokiys]

Correct.

I'm not sure how that will looks like in bath file but you can shutdown PC with command "shutdown -s" with no quotes

 

[LexxWork]

this article describes many varaints of turning the maching in available states.
http://superuser.com/questions/42124/how-can-i-put-the-computer-to-sleep-from-command-prompt-run-menu.

just wrote for fun the monitor batch

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions
set myprocess=base.exe
:begin
for /F %%x in ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %myprocess%"') do if %%x == %myprocess% goto found
echo not running
ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 > nul
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0
goto end
:found
echo running
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 11 > nul
goto begin
:end

but the worst thing is that no projects are working but the base.exe instanse is still running.

 

[shabbysquire]

Ok, thanks all for the info.

Will stick with a simple batch command for now.