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Waking up monitor with speakers (8 posts)


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  1. Anonymous

    Posted 1 year ago

    When I attach my computer to speakers, Citrus wakes up the computer and everything works fine. However, if I want to use built-in speakers on my monitor, that's when things don't work.

    My monitor goes to sleep after 10 minutes and I disabled that. Whatever Citrus is doing to wake up the computer doesn't wake up the monitor (which in turn doesn't wake up the speakers).

    Any suggestions?

  2. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 1 year ago

    Are you using the most recent version? As of 2.2, Citrus should also wake up the monitor.

  3. Anonymous

    Posted 1 year ago

    I'm using Citrus v2.3.2 and it doesn't seem to wake up my monitor.

    My computer is Dell XPS 9100, connecting to a HP w2408h monitor via HDMI cable.

    Let me know what other information you may need. Thank you.

  4. ATCtech
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago

    If I may jump in, try connecting the monitor with a DVI-D connection instead of HDMI. I have other unrelated issues with the HDMI connection to my Samsung LED monitor here and using DVI-D clears up almost all of them.

    Cheers!

    Bob

  5. Anonymous

    Posted 1 year ago

    This particular monitor (HP w2408h) doesn't have a DVI port, only HDMI and VGA.

    And I forgot to mention I'm running Windows 7 x64.

  6. ATCtech
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago

    That's too bad about the lack of DVI as I too am running windows 7/64 and to a great extent it's at the root of my problems.

    Cheers!

    Bob

  7. Anonymous

    Posted 1 year ago

    So perhaps Citrus Alarm has a bug waking up monitors (with speakers) via HDMI cable?

  8. ATCtech
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago

    I honestly can't say I've tried. My HDMI problems relate to ratty looking video issues, screen blankers not working and so forth. It appears in my reading that HDMI has not been ideally implemented in PC hardware, at least in my world of Windows 7/64 and ATI/AMD video cards, or maybe even more correctly was not meant to be used in PC applications. I jumped in when you mentioned the screen not waking up as I have a hunch that's as much to do with hardware and video card firmware than it is Citrus. The alarm does wake up my Samsung LED monitor using DVI-D just fine here.

    Cheers!

    Bob


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