rafi Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 uTorrent now implements an auto-shutdown feature. I want to propose here another "green" feature, another way to try and save power in your PC, by having it run/active ONLY when a scheduled download is expected, and turning it hibernate or standby when not needed. Most of the times - it will be in sync with your RSS releases. For example: you live in Europe and have a US show/episode scheduled to show every Monday at 21:00 US time. You like uTorrent to startup your PC (RSS +download) ~ 22:00 US time every Monday. And you don't want your PC to work all night... or 7/24 ...With this feature you can have your PC in hibernate or standby mode, and setup uT with a wakeup event(s) that correspond to the expected show times. how & where to do it--------------------This feature can be integrated to - - the scheduler screen (globally)- the RSS downloader: *A expected show time - per favorite *B an option to trigger wakeup at + X minutes after A- bothexample application that implements such feature - can be seen here:http://wakeuponstandby.en.softonic.com/some background and considerations on when to use the hibernate / standby modes is here:http://www.terranovum.com/projects/energystar/standby_v_hiber.htmlI hope it will get into one of the next releases, and I'm sure it will attract more users being the first of it's kind in any of the uTorrent clients.edit:some sample code that might help the devs is in here:http://www.dennisbabkin.com/php/faq.php?what=wosb#4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zploek Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 hmmm its not a bad thing, but we should hope it will not affect the health of the swarm, since it will stimulate the use of the shut down feature.The choice will be:Health of swarm vs. more energy use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted March 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Shutdown has already been implemented for a long time, and I don't think the swarms have complained ... Judge the feature for it's own merits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 7, 2009 Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 Eh. Use the Windows scheduler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted March 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 I wish... too bad it doesn't work in hibernate mode. you probably didn't get this 'green' point of saving energy ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackIrish Posted March 7, 2009 Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 Great idea, it would save me a lot of time since I'm using other third-party programs for this functionality.Plus, I think it would help the swarms, since people would use utorrent to power on (meaning they won't shut it down) instead of other programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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