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pascalw / Airplayer

Python script to make media playing software Apple Airplay compatbible. Currently supports XBMC, Plex and Boxee.
http://pwiddershoven.nl/blog/2011/01/05/airplayer.html
BSD 4-Clause "Original" or "Old" License
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Screen is dimmed during viewing photos #5

Closed NielsLeenheer closed 13 years ago

NielsLeenheer commented 13 years ago

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.

pascalw commented 13 years ago

Are you running the latest version?

I've implemented a fix for this a while back see c2aaf91e00b2620c25a7ec7eaa669c9241535004.

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.

NielsLeenheer commented 13 years ago

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.

pascalw commented 13 years ago

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?

NielsLeenheer commented 13 years ago

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

NielsLeenheer commented 13 years ago

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

1) starting with the screen dimmed 2) send the first photo from the iPhone 3) screen wakes up 4) continue sending photos 5) after a minute or two the screen is dimmed again 6) sending new photos does not wake the screen again 7) stopping airplay on the iphone 8) wait a couple of minutes, screen is still dimmed 9) start airplay again and send a new photo 10) 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.

pascalw commented 13 years ago

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.

pascalw commented 13 years ago

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

Closed by a29de8adb7e2a737a4100a1d3faeacf14d82c841.