Turn off the monitor with the remote control (2 Viewers)

[rtv]

nothing changes....any other idea?

You're running a current svn build and do not see this option?

 

[maysider]

nothing changes....any other idea?

You're running a current svn build and do not see this option?

I did, what you advised....but no effect

 

[mogi_dk]

I was referencing to:
"turn off monitor when blanking screen"

I found this option "turn off monitor when blanking screen" but the only way to turn monitor back on again is to move my mouse or use the keyboard - the remote cannot turn the monitor back on again.

Is this a bug ?

 

[Marcusb]

If you use the up or down arrow buttons on the MCE this turns th monitor back on. Any arrow keys should work.

As for the blanking of the monitor, MP power saving takes care of all that, but disables monitor turning off when any full screen video is playing (including visualisations). If you want the monitor to blank, simply stay out of full screen viz?

 

[NLS]

I agree with mogi. My remote ALSO doesn't turn the monitor back on using any key (using a generic X10 remote).

(so I stopped using this mode)

 

[mogi_dk]

If you use the up or down arrow buttons on the MCE this turns th monitor back on. Any arrow keys should work.

As for the blanking of the monitor, MP power saving takes care of all that, but disables monitor turning off when any full screen video is playing (including visualisations). If you want the monitor to blank, simply stay out of full screen viz?

Hi NLS

I have the Hauppauge remote that comes with the Nova DVB-T PCI board and this remote cannot turn the monitor back on again. So I guess the implementation right now only works properly with the MCE Remote or mouse/keyboard.

 

[NLS]

probably - and AFAIK is known for quite long

 

[mogi_dk]

HI again

I just had a look at the source. It seems that the MONITOR_ON constant is defined wrongly (set to 0x0001) this should have been -1 (decimal).

Source snip:
const uint MONITOR_ON = 0x0001;
const uint MONITOR_OFF = 0x0002;

0x0001 is actually standby and 0x0002 is power off.
MONITOR_ON should have been -1; (but converted to uint)

I seem to have some trouble compiling MP and I don't think I have the possibility to commit source changes.

Hopefully someone else will see this and do it.
I will try this my self asap.

Best wishes,
Mads

 

[mogi_dk]

Hi again

Just change the source in GraphicContext.cs to
const uint SC_MONITORPOWER = 0xF170;
const uint WM_SYSCOMMAND = 0x0112;
const int MONITOR_ON = -1;
const int MONITOR_OFF = 2;

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern bool SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg, uint wParam, int lParam);

And it works flawlessly!

How do I get this into the mainstream ?

/Mads

 

[mPod]

That's already fixed in latest SVN since this morning.