Stop screensaver when TV off

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I’m just getting to grips with the Aerial screensaver add-on and have it working fine using local files as I saw from a recent post on here, having it constantly streaming from source is a big network hog.

My question is slightly related to this however, in that as my ‘local’ files are held on a network share, whenever the screensaver is active this will result in network traffic on the two Vero devices I have enabled it on.

This is fine in practice, however when the TV is off, the screensaver obviously just continues regardless. I’ve had a look in the CEC options and can’t see a way to get this functionality.

Anyone have any thoughts if it’s possible? Would be really nice to use this screensaver but unless I copy the files to a USB and have multiple copies plugged into the devices I want to use it on (which sounds a bit like overkill) I think it’s a non starter.

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Thinking about it, this is the same regardless of which screensaver is active. I just need some way of stopping the current one and possibly reverting to ‘Dim’ when the TV is off.

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You can tell Vero V to suspend in CEC settings when the TV is turned off. This will stop the screensaver

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Thanks Sam, I had always wondered what Suspend actually did, now I know! Unfortunately my TV has started going nuts when displaying HDR content from this screensaver, more work to do. Straightforward it is not.

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Encountered further issues with the screensaver tonight, this time HDR playback related. Is anyone else using this add-on who wouldn’t mind testing playback of some of the videos on a 4K screen to see if it’s possible to get it working properly.

I’ve rewired my Vero V directly to my TV (no amp), copied some of the 4K, HDR, HEVC files onto a USB and played them back fine when plugged directly into the TV. But when using Vero, I get screen flashes and incorrect colours.

I’ve tried moving the files onto the Vero itself, rather than streaming from an NFS share, but no change.

I think I’ve narrowed down what’s causing the flashing to the refresh rate, (all files seem to be either 29.97 or 24) so just working though a last batch of HDR related settings that could be causing the colour issue, then I’ll post some logs.