[teredactle]

Hi,

I'm running two FireTVs, always running Kodi with the Picture Slideshow Screensaver off a folder on my NAS; this works fine, for a while.

Then the screen goes black (seems like the FireTV goes to sleep); is there any workaround?

Thanks in advance!

[Jeffers24]

This may help:-

https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/comments...leep_mode/

[teredactle]

Thanks but it doesn't help. Basically the firetv will go to sleep despite kodi running the screensaver plugin that cyces through pictures...pretty crap the forced sleep mode with no way to turn it off

[Jeffers24]

This may help, note the settings in one of the posts, lots of other options to try if you google

http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/...g-t2843389

[botribun]

I'm using / side loaded:

Wake Lock - PowerManager (SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOOK)

and

Ftp Server Pro (WAKE_LOCK)

on my AFTV 4K and let the Apps run in the background, now no sleep/back screen anymore.

Maybe the Ftp Server is not needed, to keep the AFTV awake, but its a handy addition.

[Calzor Suzay]

Pretty sure from memory I use Wake Lock manager as well, I do occasionally find it on a blank screen but not in use.

[teredactle]

Looks like WakeLock did it!

Now when Kodi screensaver kicks in, it shows all my pictures randomly off my NAS; I really like having this in the background. No more FireTV going to sleep!!!

Cheers

[hurlbert]

I'm using a FireTV. WakeLock worked for me, as did the stupid little batch script below. Because WakeLock is working I'm going to use it but the script below works via KEYEVENT which would be pretty hard for Amazon to block since it's part of Android. Since you have to sideload WakeLock it's hard to know if it will work with future OS upgrades to the FireTV.

:AWAKEN
adb connect <your-device-ip-here>
adb shell input keyevent 224
:: 224 = KEYCODE_WAKEUP, https://developer.android.com/reference/...Event.html
:: KEYCODE_WAKEUP does nothing if the device is awake, but it does seem to reset the sleep timer.
:: some fairly short timeout
timeout /T 60
GOTO:AWAKEN

Obviously the main downside of such a script is it has to be running in the background somewhere on your subnet. Oh well. At least it's probably impervious to blocking and really simple. Make sure the script can seed ADB.EXE before running.