Http controllers like Kore or Yatse won't go out of the black screensaver
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1. Krypton 17.4
2. Windows 8.1 updated
3. i7 860 x64
4. 8gb ram
5. Start Kodi with Yatse or Kore wait till black screensaver activates, using arrows, home button nothing interrupts screensaver but they do work and browse on the background of Kodi with the screensaver on..
6. I noticed bonjour crashes a lot don't know if this could have something to do with it.
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#2
By the numbers:

1. Krypton nightlies fix many things. better still Leia x64
2. Windows 8.1 updated (ugh, move along to win 10)
3. i7 860 x64 (me too)
4. 8gb ram (never enough, but should be sufficient)
5. Start Kodi with Yatse or Kore (works great with my Android shield, just wondering what kind of device on the PC, regardless it's not waking up the screen blanker... You really need one?)
6. I noticed bonjour crashes a lot don't know if this could have something to do with it. (a set of protocols that allows certain communication between network-connected devices, applications and services. and could indeed be at the root of this issue) https://yatse.tv/redmine/projects/yatse/...figuration AirPlay (wiki) there may be more than one version https://support.apple.com/downloads/bonjour_for_windows This might be a better forum for your interests https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=129 debug logs help a lot.
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#3
(2017-10-17, 02:39)PatK Wrote: By the numbers:

1. Krypton nightlies fix many things. better still Leia x64
2. Windows 8.1 updated (ugh, move along to win 10)
3. i7 860 x64 (me too)
4. 8gb ram (never enough, but should be sufficient)
5. Start Kodi with Yatse or Kore (works great with my Android shield, just wondering what kind of device on the PC, regardless it's not waking up the screen blanker... You really need one?)
6. I noticed bonjour crashes a lot don't know if this could have something to do with it. (a set of protocols that allows certain communication between network-connected devices, applications and services. and could indeed be at the root of this issue) https://yatse.tv/redmine/projects/yatse/...figuration AirPlay (wiki) there may be more than one version https://support.apple.com/downloads/bonjour_for_windows This might be a better forum for your interests https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=129 debug logs help a lot.

1. I'm bound to 17.4 because I am using dsplayer.
2. Why? I tried the free update to 10 broke a lot of things so I rolled back to 8.1. I don't see the problem with using 8.1. That and I am using an older Nvidia card with older drivers that works fine like it is.

4. As this is only a little server and mediacenter I don't need more than 8gb yet.
5. Yes I do need a screen blanker as I am using a plasma panel and don't want burn in.
6. I am not sure if there is a point to go to that forum as I updated bonjour and didn't have it crashing anymore.
7. I followed the sticky post for asking on this part of the forum. No need to answer every point except for the problem itself as these are for information only.
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5.  This is a very old bug that dates to dharma or so. Still no fix for it yet
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(2017-10-18, 17:58)Martijn Wrote: 5.  This is a very old bug that dates to dharma or so. Still no fix for it yet

No work arround or alternatives? I really need a screensaver :/
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#6
Wondering if you specify none, then utilize the windows screen blanker, would that be a plausible work-round?
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#7
(2017-10-19, 02:46)PatK Wrote: Wondering if you specify none, then utilize the windows screen blanker, would that be a plausible work-round?

Hmm no I just discovered the windows screen blanker is the real issue. The timing of the screen blanker in Kodi was the same as the windows screen blanker so it didn't work. I tried preview and a time lower than windows screen blanker. Now it's possible to disrupt the screen blanker in Kodi. But the real issue is that the windows screen blanker takes over the Kodi screen blanker.

So I need a way for Kodi to disable the windows screen blanker as long as Kodi is active.
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#8
Quote:So I need a way for Kodi to disable the windows screen blanker as long as Kodi is active.
I don't think that is a possibility, I don't know how you've set-up, but I suspect a PC and the flat panel (maybe AVR between) and thinking on the wild side, a WshShell script to flip from your PC display to your flat panel (it's an Icon on my desktop that starts a Wshell batch file, it launches Kodi on the second display and closes out the PC display, and on exit of Kodi the batch file flips back and returns the display to the PC). Looking at Add-on:Logoff (wiki) Not really a screensaver, but makes your system automatically log off the active XBMC/Kodi profile according to your "Screensaver time" and I'm wondering if this add-on kicking in would be made to trigger the exit of Kodi and the display returns to the desktop? https://kodi.tv/addon/screensaver/logoff and this reasonably active forum https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=198405

Code:
Dim WshShell
Dim scv
Set svc=getobject("winmgmts:root\cimv2")
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Const DELAY = 1

'switch to TV only
execCMD = """C:\Windows\System32\DisplaySwitch.exe""/internal"
Wshshell.Run execCMD,2,false

'Launch Kodi
WshShell.CurrentDirectory = "C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\"
execCMD = """C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\Kodi.exe"""
Wshshell.Run execCMD,3,true

'switch to LCD only
execCMD = """C:\Windows\System32\DisplaySwitch.exe""/external"
Wshshell.Run execCMD,2,false

Name it flip.vbs and call it with this in the icon target "C:\Program Files (x86)\your location-extras\flip.vbs" and startin "C:\Program Files (x86)\your location-extras"

Note: I'm only looking at this from a Kodi perspective, perhaps a windows solution might be the trick and all of this is under the assumption, that when there is no video signal on your OLED, the panel is dark.
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#9
(2017-10-20, 17:52)PatK Wrote:
Quote:So I need a way for Kodi to disable the windows screen blanker as long as Kodi is active.
I don't think that is a possibility,  I don't know how you've set-up, but I suspect a PC and the flat panel (maybe AVR between) and thinking on the wild side, a WshShell script to flip from your PC display to your flat panel (it's an Icon on my desktop that starts a Wshell batch file, it launches Kodi on the second display and closes out the PC display, and on exit of Kodi the batch file flips back and returns the display to the PC). Looking at Add-on:Logoff (wiki) Not really a screensaver, but makes your system automatically log off the active XBMC/Kodi profile according to your "Screensaver time" and I'm wondering if this add-on kicking in would be made to trigger the exit of Kodi and the display returns to the desktop? https://kodi.tv/addon/screensaver/logoff and this reasonably active forum https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=198405

Code:
Dim WshShell
Dim scv
Set svc=getobject("winmgmts:root\cimv2")
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Const DELAY = 1

'switch to TV only
execCMD = """C:\Windows\System32\DisplaySwitch.exe""/internal"
Wshshell.Run execCMD,2,false

'Launch Kodi
WshShell.CurrentDirectory = "C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\"
execCMD = """C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\Kodi.exe"""
Wshshell.Run execCMD,3,true

'switch to LCD only
execCMD = """C:\Windows\System32\DisplaySwitch.exe""/external"
Wshshell.Run execCMD,2,false

Name it flip.vbs and call it with this in the icon target "C:\Program Files (x86)\your location-extras\flip.vbs" and startin "C:\Program Files (x86)\your location-extras"

Note: I'm only looking at this from a Kodi perspective, perhaps a windows solution might be the trick and all of this is under the assumption, that when there is no video signal on your OLED, the panel is dark.
This would be a solution but I only use this pc as mediapc so there is only 1 display connected no pc monitor. Kodi is 99% of the time in use, I try to do everything with Kodi so going back to desktop is not really a solution as I also lose the remote functionality. :/

[PatK] edit, relocated ending quote flag.
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@Cynwrig

Please edit your post so your response is not caught up in the Quote.
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#11
I edited the post to reflect the reply, the new forum has been having issues with multi-quoting. With only one display, I would have hoped others that have seen this issue and overcome it somehow would respond.
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(2017-10-22, 19:12)PatK Wrote: I edited the post to reflect the reply, the new forum has been having issues with multi-quoting. With only one display, I would have hoped others that have seen this issue and overcome it somehow would respond.

My apologies, I did not notice I messed up the quotes when posting. 

Yes, I hope someone with the same issue found some solution for this and will post at a time. At the moment when I idled to long I am remoting to this pc from my phone to make the screen active again. But it's not a very efficient work arround and takes some time.
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