Screen never turns off

I've noticed that the screen never turns off.  I went into the android setting and set the display to turn off after 15 seconds of inactivity and that works when I'm not in the smartremote app.  But didn't do anything while the smartremote app was running.  Are other's experiencing this as well?

And does anyone know if the adaptive brightness is supposed to work?  When I select it, all it does is turn the brightness to 50%.

I tried this as well with the same result. The adaptive brightness toggle in the display settings is probably a dead end as I don't think the remote has the hardware necessary to leverage it.

Nillaz wrote:

I tried this as well with the same result. The adaptive brightness toggle in the display settings is probably a dead end as I don't think the remote has the hardware necessary to leverage it.

There is some control over screen brightness from the smartremote.apk.  But the limitation is we can't turn the screen OFF.  This seems to be a limitation of the AndroidOS.
I don't remember if the screen display brightness is currently exposed as a myServer command...probably something that can be added if not.  But it won't turn the screen Off, even if a zero value is sent to it (unfortunately).

I have just gotten in the habit of turning the remote onto it's face during critical movie watching

David Li wrote:

Nillaz wrote:

I tried this as well with the same result. The adaptive brightness toggle in the display settings is probably a dead end as I don't think the remote has the hardware necessary to leverage it.

There is some control over screen brightness from the smartremote.apk.  But the limitation is we can't turn the screen OFF.  This seems to be a limitation of the AndroidOS.
I don't remember if the screen display brightness is currently exposed as a myServer command...probably something that can be added if not.  But it won't turn the screen Off, even if a zero value is sent to it (unfortunately).

I have just gotten in the habit of turning the remote onto it's face during critical movie watching
 

Understood. I'm aware that this is a longstanding android issue. The problem is that the screen isn't dimming down either, or at least not consistently.

I opened a second one of my remotes and connected it a little while ago so I could compare the behavior between the two of them. The first remote has only ever dimmed down once about a half hour ago. I picked it up and it brightened up and then after I set it down again it hasn't dimmed back down. The second remote dimmed/brightened as expected a few times when I first connected it to the server but is now acting like the other remote. I've been monitoring it for the last 10 minutes or so and it is still at 100% brightness while just sitting on as table.

I don't understand why the android screen timeout doesn't work.  If I'm in the web browser or any of the other apps then the screen turns off after inactivity.  Why wouldn't that work for the smartremote app as well?

bowlingbeeg wrote:

I don't understand why the android screen timeout doesn't work.  If I'm in the web browser or any of the other apps then the screen turns off after inactivity.  Why wouldn't that work for the smartremote app as well?

It's apparently and AndroidOS issue as it relates to Apps.  No known fix today.