Disable windows power plan tracking, but keep shut down and power on tracking

[Alex-Falc]

Hello, I recently discovered this app, and it works flawlessly. But I soon realized that making a TV act as monitor 100% isn't really practical.
So is there an option to disable windows power plan tracking but keep the pc shutdown/power on tracking, I can't find the option?
I have set my power plan to turn off the monitor after 5min to prevent any possible burn in, but having the tv completely turn off after 5 min and then having to wait for it to turn on when I move the mouse is pretty slow, and I fear for the electronics of the tv, because the relays and all other components are switching off/on all the time, compared to a laptop screen for example where only the screen panel it self is switching off when windows turns off the screen.

[JPersson77]

Hi @Alex-Falc ,

Yeah the idea is to track windows state and replicate it via the LG API. There isn't a way to deterministically separate the relevant events and I try to avoid corner cases to increase reliability of all components of the app.

So, if you don't want the monitor to turn off after 5 minutes idle there are a couple of alternatives:

1. disable or delay the "turn off monitor after X minutes" in windows power settings. Maybe you have more monitors attached but this will have the effect you are after

2. a better and more recommended way is to enable "User Idle Mode" in the app and set it to 5 minutes (and set the windows setting to something like 30/60 minutes). This will blank the screen (using the built in screen blanking) after 5 minutes and turn the screen on again near instantly when moving the mouse.

Let me know how it goes please

[Alex-Falc]

didn't even bother seeing how idle mode works, thanks, this is even better than what I needed.