psavine42 / webscreensaver

Browser Screen

A tool to run a browser-based pseudo-screensaver in windows.

Motivation

There exist screen-savers that run a webpage, but are fairly inconsisent across Windows versions and configurations, group policies etc. Automating a version with python and selenium for firefox allows:

1. using an existing browser profile (cookies etc, useful if there is something pw protected you want screen-savered)
2. No dependencies on windows Version and settings.
3. Serving from a static html file.
4. Logging.
5. Supports multiple monitors, with screensaver starting on a delay (do not ask why, but as why not - RFK)

Usage

# install
install python 3.6
install firefox

git clone https://github.com/psavine42/webscreensaver
cd webscreensaver
setup.bat           # this installs some pip packages
mv ./demo ./prod    # copy the demo config to prod to be read by 

# test - this starts the screen saver 
test.bat

# run 
run.bat 

# or for custom arguments
python winapiv.py --act run --delay 1 --timeout 27

Config file will have values for test and run configs. Test will basically start the screen saver immediately.

{
    "test": {
        "timeout": 0.01,
        "url": "https:///www.google.com",
        "delay": 7,
        "logdir":""
    },
    "run": {
        "timeout": 20,
        "url": "https://www.tocci.com",
        "delay": 7,
        "logdir":""
    }
}

Misc

Log files go to %Appdata%/local/webscreensaver/log