For a long time now I've got my aftv to sleep by setting screensaver time to "never" but now that I have prime and unlimited cloud storage for pics, I use those as my screensaver and want to keep using them. So as expected, it appears amazon never fixed this issue. I have 2 questions:
1. Should I even care that my aftv is always on? (significantly shorten its life?etc..)
2. Is there a way to get those pics to display but still go to sleep after a reasonable time, or at the very least when my TV turns off?
***While we're on the subject of pics and screensaver. If anyone knows if you can delete the amazon stock screensaver jpegs, that I assume get downloaded and saved to the aftv, could you please tell me? I'd think that'd save a good amount of space if they are being stored somewhere on the box. That photo cache fills up fast too. I delete it 2 times a weeks and it's still over 200 mb each time. Thanks
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Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any way to prevent the Fire TV from sleeping? It stays awake if I have a sideloaded app like XBMC loaded, but if I am in an official Fire TV app, it goes to sleep after 30 minutes. This confuses guests at my house when they turn the TV on and get nothing but a black screen from the Fire TV.
Red Eye Sleep Awake seems to work fine on my Fire TV. Once running, FTV never goes to sleep.
I mainly used it for the AirPin PRO app, when FTV goes to sleep, AirPin stops working. But, after letting FTV run without sleeping for 3 to 4 days, I did find FTV much warmer to touch. It was not that important for AirPin to be available on demand for me, so I uninstalled the Red Eye app and let FTV go to sleep.
martyxng said:
Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any way to prevent the Fire TV from sleeping? It stays awake if I have a sideloaded app like XBMC loaded, but if I am in an official Fire TV app, it goes to sleep after 30 minutes. This confuses guests at my house when they turn the TV on and get nothing but a black screen from the Fire TV.
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What was your solution? I am looking for a way to disable sleep to allow the screensaver to stay active.
Thx,
riz
Screensaver.tv said:
What was your solution? I am looking for a way to disable sleep to allow the screensaver to stay active.
Thx,
riz
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I need to look at it more, but I put a needle through the mic and into the ic under to prevent the mic from ever working. left it alone for ten hours, and when I turned on the tv next, the fire was fully up. usually it takes a few slaps in the head to wake up; I think the error thrown by testing voice may have also kept it awake. I'm hoping this doesn't kill the batteries in the remote.
roustabout said:
I need to look at it more, but I put a needle through the mic and into the ic under to prevent the mic from ever working. left it alone for ten hours, and when I turned on the tv next, the fire was fully up. usually it takes a few slaps in the head to wake up; I think the error thrown by testing voice may have also kept it awake. I'm hoping this doesn't kill the batteries in the remote.
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Hey guys, anyone have a solution? thx
dbdoshi said:
Red Eye Sleep Awake seems to work fine on my Fire TV. Once running, FTV never goes to sleep.
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I have sideloaded RedEye Sleep Awake onto my Fire TV and launched it but it does not keep my Fire TV box from going to sleep. A few seconds afterwards, the Fire TV white LED goes out.
What should I try?
Not a geek said:
I have sideloaded RedEye Sleep Awake onto my Fire TV and launched it but it does not keep my Fire TV box from going to sleep. A few seconds afterwards, the Fire TV white LED goes out.
What should I try?
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Works fine for me... on both my FTVs. These are rooted FTVs (if you are not rooted, I am not sure if this app works)
My settings within the app are:
Awake Level: Fully Awake (you will need to go into that option to select it)
Start at boot: Yes
Disable when screen is turned off: No
Enable when on AC: Yes
Enable at startup: Yes
Disable on low battery: No
Disable notification Icon: No
(Yes means checked, No means not checked).
Once you have the settings verified, reboot your FTV and see if it stays up. Also, my RedEye Sleep Toggle version is 1.5.2 (free version)
Also, on my FTV under Settings, Display & Sounds, Screen Saver, the "Start Time" is set to "Never". Not sure if that makes any difference, but wanted to put it out here.
Thanks for your rapid reply, dbdoshi and for the settings detail you included.
I tried again and this time the Redeye Sleep Toggle app does indeed work.
I too have two Fire TVs and why I failed on both of 'em to get the app to work, I have no idea. Anyway, all's well that ends well...
Re the sceensaver settings, I've mine set to 5 minutes and this doesn't disturb the app behaviour at all.
Also, my Fire TVs are not rooted, merely sideloaded.
For anyone confused by the app name, at the time of writing it shows up in Google Play and on the BinaryMagi Inc website as Redeye Stay Awake, but on Android devices it shows up as Redeye Sleep Toggle.
I set up my first FTV 4 months ago and recently got another. Everything went pretty smooth except I cant remember what I did to make it sleep after x number of minutes idle in xbmc/kodi. I think the first FTV might have SPMC on it while the second has elmerohueso's XBMC/Kodi.
Any ideas what I did last year? I have kids, my brain is mush.
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I set up my first FTV 4 months ago and recently got another. Everything went pretty smooth except I cant remember what I did to make it sleep after x number of minutes idle in xbmc/kodi. I think the first FTV might have SPMC on it while the second has elmerohueso's XBMC/Kodi.
Any ideas what I did last year? I have kids, my brain is mush.
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Can't you just review the settings on your old AFTV and emulate the same to the new one?
But if not, go to:
System settings - Settings - Power saving -> toggle the Shutdown function timer to 5 min and Shutdown function to quit.
Then, under Appearance - Screen saver - Screensaver mode to dim and Screensaver time to 3 mins.
Keeping in mind that by default AFTV takes 30 mins before it actually goes to sleep.
These are my settings on my AFTV and works like a charm.
Good luck!
Macpatto said:
Can't you just review the settings on your old AFTV and emulate the same to the new one?
But if not, go to:
System settings - Settings - Power saving -> toggle the Shutdown function timer to 5 min and Shutdown function to quit.
Then, under Appearance - Screen saver - Screensaver mode to dim and Screensaver time to 3 mins.
Keeping in mind that by default AFTV takes 30 mins before it actually goes to sleep.
These are my settings on my AFTV and works like a charm.
Good luck!
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thanks for the help. I did look at my other AFTV but the settings you mention are "Off" and "Quit" which is the default setting. I checked for installed apps that might do the sleep function but didnt see anything. I really have no idea how I did this and I did search the forum for quite a while. I'd never have figured it out myself so I know the answer must be here somewhere.
I'll try your recommendation, maybe it will be good enough.
I got it working by installing elmerohueso's screensaver.
i am still on a learning curve with the AFTV as come from using a Rpi after many years so know xbmc/kodi pretty well and now love being able to use the better skins
so my AFTV is pretty new and has the latest FW so i am unable to root, so anyway i side loaded SPMC 13.4.0 and after set-up very happy with it and the speed is amazing compared to the Rpi
anyway decided to also side load Kodi 14.1 (as read they can both be loaded without conflicting) again after setting up happy again (and prefer to use the Kodi set-up) SPMC is still loaded just in case tho
anyhow 1 thing i have noticed is that if SPMC was left in the menus ect or SPMC's home screen the screen saver DIM would kick in as it should after 3 mins and also after the 30 mins (approx) it would send the AFTV to sleep and once woken up it would be where i left it (this i really like)
but since using Kodi the screen saver DIM kicks in a it should but the AFTV will not sleep ( i have since set it up to quit Kodi after x mins so the AFTV will then sleep after the given 30 mins on AFTV home screen_ but upon waking its on the AFTV hoe screen
my question is why does SPMC sleep ok when its left within SPMC but Kodi not?
also due to having Kodi quit to get back to AFTV home screen to enable it to sleep. daft question i know but am i correct in saying the sceduealed auto updates and backups i set up will not work due to Kodi not running)
also great forum with loads of info
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i am still on a learning curve with the AFTV as come from using a Rpi after many years so know xbmc/kodi pretty well and now love being able to use the better skins
so my AFTV is pretty new and has the latest FW so i am unable to root, so anyway i side loaded SPMC 13.4.0 and after set-up very happy with it and the speed is amazing compared to the Rpi
anyway decided to also side load Kodi 14.1 (as read they can both be loaded without conflicting) again after setting up happy again (and prefer to use the Kodi set-up) SPMC is still loaded just in case tho
anyhow 1 thing i have noticed is that if SPMC was left in the menus ect or SPMC's home screen the screen saver DIM would kick in as it should after 3 mins and also after the 30 mins (approx) it would send the AFTV to sleep and once woken up it would be where i left it (this i really like)
but since using Kodi the screen saver DIM kicks in a it should but the AFTV will not sleep ( i have since set it up to quit Kodi after x mins so the AFTV will then sleep after the given 30 mins on AFTV home screen_ but upon waking its on the AFTV hoe screen
my question is why does SPMC sleep ok when its left within SPMC but Kodi not?
also due to having Kodi quit to get back to AFTV home screen to enable it to sleep. daft question i know but am i correct in saying the sceduealed auto updates and backups i set up will not work due to Kodi not running)
also great forum with loads of info
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I'm not expert, but I believe it's because SPMC is specifically designed for AFTV, while Kodi is for more general android devices. You may want to look into AFTVtweaks (for XBMC/Kodi), that are floating around as a zip files somewhere on these forums, though I am not positive if they updated for Kodi yet.
Lots of users have experienced issues getting aftv to auto sleep. For me the workaround was to set screensaver time to "never". But now with the latest update i noticed both my aftvs are quick to sleep when its left idling. Actually this is true even if i dont force quit kodi.
I went into display settings and noticed theyve been altered --screensaver time is 5 mins.
Maybe its my imagination but it seems to sleep with less than 5 mins idle time. It now sort of acts like my phone--screen goes black if im not using it.
Im not complaining. I just think its interesting theyd find this necessary at amazon. There is no battery to conserve. Anyone have any theories on why this was fixed/modified with the latest firmware?
Some time several months back I recall reading a post from a Fire TV user in Germany, whose Fire TV wouldn't go to sleep. He was reporting that during non-sleep it was drawing excessive power. This was an issue for him because of the cost of electricity.
My best guess is that it's for energy conservation, for the Fire TV at least and in some cases for the TV. I imagine some TVs will turn off automatically after some time with a blank screen, and some TVs (such as mine) will automatically turn on when the Fire TV is woken up.
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Some time several months back I recall reading a post from a Fire TV user in Germany, whose Fire TV wouldn't go to sleep. He was reporting that during non-sleep it was drawing excessive power. This was an issue for him because of the cost of electricity.
My best guess is that it's for energy conservation, for the Fire TV at least and in some cases for the TV. I imagine some TVs will turn off automatically after some time with a blank screen, and some TVs (such as mine) will automatically turn on when the Fire TV is woken up.
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Just doing some routine maintenance today, I launched es task manager and was fiddling trying to get my wireless mouse to work (wound up needing new battery). In a very short span--no more than 5 mins, aftv went to sleep 3 times. This to me is a good thing. Its conserving power like most modern devices should. I'm just curious as to why amazon chose to address this now. Optimistically I'm hoping they just want a more power efficient product for their consumers, but wondering if there's anything that made this necessary? If maybe those long periods without sleep could potentially wear it out now that one of my aftvs is reaching its first birthday.
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Just doing some routine maintenance today, I launched es task manager and was fiddling trying to get my wireless mouse to work (wound up needing new battery). In a very short span--no more than 5 mins, aftv went to sleep 3 times. This to me is a good thing. Its conserving power like most modern devices should. I'm just curious as to why amazon chose to address this now. Optimistically I'm hoping they just want a more power efficient product for their consumers, but wondering if there's anything that made this necessary? If maybe those long periods without sleep could potentially wear it out now that one of my aftvs is reaching its first birthday.
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You could try an app I use on all my Android devices. It's called Screen Timeout, and it's in the Playstore. You can place a shortcut on the desktop and click whenever you want to keep the screen from timing out on you. I combined it with Pie Control and can access it from within any app by moving my mouse the side of the screen and clicking to bring up the app, then sliding over to select the Screen Timeout app. Both apps work very well, plus the Pie Control app also has a clock feature so you can see what time it is. The only downside is the clock also has a battery display you can't get rid of, but it's pretty tiny.
The Fire TV stick default screensaver has some of the most beautiful landscape pictures I have ever seen. The transitions between them are also super fluid. On some events like a party I would like to display it all the time, basically using my big screen TV as a photo gallery. Unfortunately it's not that easy.
I have connected to the Fire TV stick via ADB to set the screensaver to 1 minute:
adb shell settings put system screen_off_timeout 60000
This works well, after 1 minute of idling the screensaver is shown (In the UI lowest value is 5 minutes).
Unfortunately FireTV will show the screensaver only for about 15 minutes and then turn the screen off! :crying:
Is there a way to prevent it?
I have sideloaded the Wake Lock Powermanager to the stick:
https://apkpure.com/wake-lock-powermanager/eu.thedarken.wl
If I activate the screen lock, Fire TV doesn't go to standby anymore, but unfortunately the screensaver is disabled.
Is there any other way?
It requires root access.
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-set-a-custom-sleep-time-on-a-rooted-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/
Sharky444 said:
The Fire TV stick default screensaver has some of the most beautiful landscape pictures I have ever seen. The transitions between them are also super fluid. On some events like a party I would like to display it all the time, basically using my big screen TV as a photo gallery. Unfortunately it's not that easy.
I have connected to the Fire TV stick via ADB to set the screensaver to 1 minute:
adb shell settings put system screen_off_timeout 60000
This works well, after 1 minute of idling the screensaver is shown (In the UI lowest value is 5 minutes).
Unfortunately FireTV will show the screensaver only for about 15 minutes and then turn the screen off! :crying:
Is there a way to prevent it?
I have sideloaded the Wake Lock Powermanager to the stick:
https://apkpure.com/wake-lock-powermanager/eu.thedarken.wl
If I activate the screen lock, Fire TV doesn't go to standby anymore, but unfortunately the screensaver is disabled.
Is there any other way?
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It requires root access.
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-set-a-custom-sleep-time-on-a-rooted-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/
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Thanks to Mattgyver83 over @ RedIt & Thanks to @Axecaster for the RedIt link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/comments/4jc22o/nonroot_prevent_sleep_on_fireos5/
So basically this different/optional setting might also work for non-Rooted devices on the latest or any past FW. But someone on a non-Rooted device will have to confirm that. Please post your result & FW version. Also someone can try to use a value of "0" to see if that turns the timeout completely off like with other mods.
ChrisDL over in the comments @ AFTVNews.com tested the "0" value & it worked as a Never Sleep value.
Note: The Mattgyver83 Reddit option seems to be much cleaner & fully functional. I would recommend you try that one first.
And not we have an awesome AIO Guide with explanations thanks to Elias aka @AFTVnews.com .
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-set-...-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-stick-without-root/
Make sure you read the comments. There are a bit more details there.
Also someone mentioned it was not working for them on a FTVS1. Although the AppStarter setting was working for them. I hope some more of you can test the ADB input method to get the whole picture.
This non-root solution does work with a value of 0:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/comments/4jc22o/nonroot_prevent_sleep_on_fireos5/
Other solutions do not work.