Monitor Power Management

[quixote]

I just recently got around to trying this feature out (I kind of forgot about it), and it seems that my monitor will go into sleep mode, but immediately turns back on. I think I may have had this problem in the past, but I can't remember why or how it was resolved. Has anyone else here had the same problem?

[Ron]

if you use a keyboard event to put it into sleep mode, it will come back out again. How are you triggering the action?

[quixote]

Yes, it was a keyboard event (specifically the sleep button). Why does that happen? Is there a simple explanation?

[Ron]

yeah, Windows simply wakes up the monitor because it detected keyboard activity.

edit: Maybe if you use the <UP> event instead of the <down> it might work.

[quixote]

Strange, I put a delay in before it (as a macro), and it works with every key EXCEPT the one I want to use (it's the sleep button on my keyboard).
When I press the key I get the UP and DOWN for 5F00000E, but then it says OnQuerySuspend immediately afterwards in the logger.
No big deal, just that it would be nice to have the sleep button set off my sleep mode macro to turn off my screen, TV and lights.

[Ron]

Here is an idea. Use a CreateTimer to fire an event a little 1/2 second or so after the keypress. That might fool windows into thinking no key was pressed.

[quixote]

I found the solution. It was kind of a random shot in the dark, but it works.
First I mapped the keypress as STANDBY. Next I made a macro with a delay of 200 milliseconds right before the "turn off monitor" Monitor Power Management command, and then assigned the event STANDBY to it. Then I set the modifiers as both UP and DOWN.
Works like a charm.

[Ron]

Great.

[quixote]

It stopped working. It seems quite inconsistent.