Getting Keep Awake to work... Help please!

[danward79]

Hi

I am trying get the keep awake function of Avid's to work, but so far no joy.

My PPC is IPAQ 2210, it is set to:-

On battery Turn off backlight after 30secs
Turn off device if not used for 1min.

My button is setup:-

Name :- Keep Awake
IR Action Name :- NR.ClockTime
IR Action Code :- 5001 0000 0000 0002 fc0a 0001 0001 0000

Now if I get the doc's right. The screen will still go off but the ppc will not turn off.

I get the ppc turning off after 1 min.

Am I being stupid or is there a problem.

Many Thanks

Dan

[Cocophone]

I set my keep awake button to use the track position. Then I put a track position button on the same panel. If you don't want the track position to be visible just use "no font" and it will be invisible.

Maybe you need to a button or frame that has the time on the same panel as the keep awake button

[danward79]

Yeah, got time on the same panel, I can't use track posn, I don't use it.

I use time all over, thou.

[Cocophone]

I used track position because I wanted Netremote to stay on while JRMC was playing music. But if I fall asleep on the couch, I wanted PPC to turn off when JRMC was done playing music.

[danward79]

Good Call... I just want some kinda way of keeping the wifi live, while say TT is playing, etc.

I think I will use your idea for JRMC page thou.

Could you detail how to do it please.

Dan

[Cocophone]

The button is named Keep Awake
On the "actions" tab in tonto I have
[Delay] 100ms
[IR] MP.TrackPosition

The code for the [IR] is
5001 0000 0000 0002 fc0a 0001 0001 0000

Then on the same panel I have a frame with the name
{MP.PlaylistPosition} of {MP.PlaylistLength} {MP.TrackPosition} / {MP.TrackLength}

My ccf is based on JLee's Opus ccf.

[danward79]

Cool, I will have a play again.

Thanks
Dan

[danward79]

I made two changes to my original, added the 100ms Delay, and set the time to show seconds as well and it now works.

Thanks for the help

Dan

[avid]

I guess the problem is that if you set your PPC to suspend with a 1-minute timeout, and use a clock variable that is changing only every minute to keep it awake, then it may or may not work as expected. I didn't spot it as my PPC suspends after 3 minutes.

BTW, I have seen comments on this thread that it is necessary to actually *display* on the panel the counter variable used for KeepAwake. That surprises me - I would not have thought it necessary. Can anyone confirm that this is definitely the case? If so, I will document it (and also try to work out why!).

Brian

[danward79]

Hi Avid,

I don't know if it is necessary, but when I read the doc's with your plugin. It made me think I needed to display the variable.

Dan

[Cocophone]

Brian,

That was my thoughts too. I thought your docs implied that you needed the variable on the ccf panel.