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peterede's avatar
peterede
Reel Rookie
7 years ago

Playing audio stops when screensaver activates

I have a Roku Channel that plays a playlist of songs and uses observefield on the state value of the music player to detect when a song finishes in order to play the next one but when the screensaver ...
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squirreltown's avatar
squirreltown
Roku Guru
7 years ago
"joetesta" wrote:
not, you could also use ECP while audio is playing to send a keypress from within the app every 59 seconds or so, that will prevent screensaver.

Mercifully, this trick has been replaced with the 

appmanager.UpdateLastKeyPressTime() 

trick.
you can also use 

appmanager.GetScreensaverTimeout() 

to find the interval to run it.