disable_screensaver on a timer/schedule?

[semiligneous]

I wonder if anyone else would think it was useful to have the disable_screensaver only active at certain times of the day?

In the day time, I want the screen to show the kiosk slideshow, but at night, I want the computer's screensaver to kick in and turn off the display and lock eventually, i.e. disable_screensaver=false.

I could achieve this now by running kiosk with a URL with disable_screensaver=true in the daytime from 7am, and loading a different URL with disable_screensaver=false from 10pm onwards (there's probably a browser plugin to do this automatically...). But a schedule option like disable_screensaver_schedule_start=0700 and disable_screensaver_schedule_end=2200 would maybe be useful?

[semiligneous]

to be clear, I don't expect kiosk to wake up the computer from sleep and suddenly start playing the photo slideshow at 7am. I appreciate that is not possible! (Would be awesome if it could of course!).

It would require me, the user, to unlock the computer/cancel the screensaver, but nothing else would be needed - it would just start in screensaver_disabled mode.

[damongolding]

If there is enough interest I can implement that.

Might be worth testing if requesting the wake lock would stop a screensaver if it was already playing. As you said, I couldn't unlock the device though.

[radh21301]

I think it would also be good enough if the screen can just turn black. Instead of turning off altogether (although turning off the screen has some power savings). As long as the bright light does not keep me from sleeping -> I use kiosk on a tablet in my bedroom, so I have to lock the tablet manually every night.

But I would actually prefer if I dont have to unlock or interact with the device everyday to turn it on in the morning. I prefer things to turn on/off automatically.

[damongolding]

If anyone is interested in being a beta tester they can use the docker image damongolding/immich-kiosk-development:0.11.0 to test out the sleep_start=TIME and sleep_start=TIME features. If you do so and have any feedback you can either leave it here or hit me up on the Immich Discord server. There are some docs on it here https://github.com/damongolding/immich-kiosk/tree/task/release?tab=readme-ov-file#sleep-mode

[soana]

The sleep mode works fine for me, the image (date and time) is rather dim but it could be my monitor.

[radh21301]

It works great for me!

I have a really dark room at night, so the brightness is perfect for me.

[damongolding]

The sleep mode works fine for me, the image (date and time) is rather dim but it could be my monitor.

Yeah it's a tough one. It's perfect on one of my monitors and too dim on the other.