2007-11-16, 12:47
Hey folks,
The environmentally friendly and the fire safety concious of you will doubtless disapprove of what I'm about to say...but:
I like to leave my Xbox on. It lets me access it (ftp etc) from outside the house and it lets me have it on overnight.
The problem is that I have discovered the unit has a most anoying habbit of switching itself off over 3 or 4 hours. I don't know whether this is some programmed in 'feature' or whether it's some temperature dependent cutoff or something but I'm suspicious that there's an idle timer and that the unit will switch itself off if there are no button presses over a certain time period - regardless of whether it's playing anything or not.
If so I'm wondering if a script to simply send a few button presses or actions that might stop the idle-out timer from doing it's countdown to allow me to keep my xbox on.
All the best,
TheBoxMan.
The environmentally friendly and the fire safety concious of you will doubtless disapprove of what I'm about to say...but:
I like to leave my Xbox on. It lets me access it (ftp etc) from outside the house and it lets me have it on overnight.
The problem is that I have discovered the unit has a most anoying habbit of switching itself off over 3 or 4 hours. I don't know whether this is some programmed in 'feature' or whether it's some temperature dependent cutoff or something but I'm suspicious that there's an idle timer and that the unit will switch itself off if there are no button presses over a certain time period - regardless of whether it's playing anything or not.
If so I'm wondering if a script to simply send a few button presses or actions that might stop the idle-out timer from doing it's countdown to allow me to keep my xbox on.
All the best,
TheBoxMan.