Screen is dimmed during viewing photos

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Screen is dimmed during viewing photos

NielsLeenheer opened this issue 14 years ago · comments

When viewing photos on XBMC from my iPhone or iPad the screens dims after a while. Moving to a different photo still works, but the screen stays dimmed. Perhaps it is possible to wake up the screen every time a new photo is being send to Airplayer.

Pascal Widdershoven · Answer 1 · Fri Jan 14 2011 04:20:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Are you running the latest version?

I've implemented a fix for this a while back see c2aaf91.

For me that fixed the problem. Basically when sending a new picture, Airplayer tries to wake up the screen by sending a "sendkey(ACTION_NONE)" command to XBMC. As far as I know there isn't a "wakup screen" command or something, but this seemed to work.

See this XBMC bug ticket too: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10883.

Niels Leenheer · Answer 2 · Fri Jan 14 2011 04:41:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, I'm running the latest version. But the screen does not wake up when sending a new picture. It does wake the screen up when sending a video.

Pascal Widdershoven · Answer 3 · Fri Jan 14 2011 21:00:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'll have a look at it. It should not make any difference wether you send a picture or a movie, in both cases the ACTION_NONE command is sent and the screen should wake up.

What version of XBMC are you running?

Niels Leenheer · Answer 4 · Sat Jan 15 2011 05:07:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm running the latest LiveCD with the final release of XBMC 10.

Niels Leenheer · Answer 5 · Sat Jan 15 2011 05:35:09 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Okay some more information. I can reproduce the following consistantly:

starting with the screen dimmed
send the first photo from the iPhone
screen wakes up
continue sending photos
after a minute or two the screen is dimmed again
sending new photos does not wake the screen again
stopping airplay on the iphone
wait a couple of minutes, screen is still dimmed
start airplay again and send a new photo
screen wakes up again

So it appear like the ACTION_NONE command is send for the first photo and in fact works. Then the command is not send for a while and the screensaver kicks in.

Pascal Widdershoven · Answer 6 · Sat Jan 15 2011 20:08:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well, the thing is, I can't reproduce it since my XBMC doesn't even dim the screen when playing a slideshow. It only dims when a movie is paused.

But that should really matter. If you look at the log files when at step 5/6, do you see "[DEBUG] Sending wake event" messages?

Edit:
Aha. I've switched to another screensaver and now I'm able to reproduce it. After a while no wake events are sent anymore.

Pascal Widdershoven · Answer 7 · Sat Jan 15 2011 20:35:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Fixed an issue where the screen wouldn't wake up when sending pictures to XBMC.

Closed by a29de8a.