Screensaver

[willosof]

Screensaver for the streamdecks connected after n minutes.

[DeeJayMX]

Check this:
https://github.com/DeeJayMX/StreamDeckSharp.ExampleCollection/tree/master/src/StreamDeckSharp.Examples.DrawFullScreen

[haakonnessjoen]

The reason "solution needed" is added is because we need to create a virtual framebuffer for the stream decks, unrelated to the page-number each stream deck is at. So there need to be some changes in the companion-core to enable screensavers. And some decisions to make on how we do it. It's not that we do not know how to draw images to the stream deck ;)

I have a solution in mind. But no time to implement it at the time.

[greyshirtguy]

Perhaps an easy solution to begin with? Auto dimming after some configurable timeout of button pushes?
Perhaps something as crude as a timer (user configurable duration) that sets a user configurable dimming value. Timer is reset by button pushes. If Timer elapses, timer stops & device is dimmed. Any button pushes re-trigger timer.

[metawops]

Whatever happened to this? Any news? Will it make into a final 2.2.0 release?

[JonFStr]

I've searched for a way to put my Streamdecks to sleep as well, and until an official feature is implemented, I'd like to share a workaround for anyone who is also waiting:

I've created a completely "empty" page and setup triggers that will set every surface to that page after no buttons have been pressed for a certain amount of time.
I say "empty" in quotes, because it's actually a page where every button sets the surface pushing it back to its startup page. That way, it displays nothing but can be woken up again with just one button press.

This will sleep all connected Streamdecks at once and only wake them up one at a time - but if You're not happy with that, feel free to copy the loop used to sleep the Streamdecks in the wake-up buttons :)

screensaver_workaround.companionconfig.txt

[metawops]

Haven‘t checked your solution/workaround, @JonFStr, but implemented it like so:

• custom variable that counts up every second via a timed trigger
• trigger for when the value reaches a certain number of seconds/minutes
• if so, set the brightness of all Stream Decks to very low
• add another trigger that fires on any key press and resets the brightness again to lit and resets the variable to 0
• only thing to be aware of is: the button press to „wake“ the Stream Decks again gets executed. So I use the button I always have in the lower left corner that shows the current clock (with blinking colon! 🤓) or another button that has no function (mostly a page button or a quick up and down press or sim.)

[shamasis]

I found an even simpler setup top do this.

Setup 2 triggers:

1. A trigger to brighten display of the surface to 100% on any key press. Let's call it "Brighten Display"
2. Another trigger to dim display to 0% every 10 second. Let's call it "Dim Display"
3. In the Brighten Display trigger, after setting brightness disable the Dim Display trigger and then enable it back. (3 actions total)
4. In Dim Display trigger, disable the Dim Display trigger itself as another action (2 actions total)

Optionally: Was also able to do more things by adding a page called "Dimmed" that had buttons with no text, which on click navigate to first page. On dimming, navigated to dimmed page. This way, the first press after dim, does not trigger a button!

[haakonnessjoen]

@shamasis Changing the brightness will probably not have any effect in saving the crystals in a display from burn-in, as the brightness is only controlling the backlight of the display afaik. Maybe it has some effect because of heat or other things, I am pretty sure that is minimal.

[metawops]

Well, the Stream Decks don‘t have OLED displays at all. So implementing a screensaver of some sorts is merely a „hobby“. 😉