Screen never turns off

Nillaz wrote:

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.

Nillaz wrote:

OK, but then the question becomes what can be done about it? The remotes are sitting on a table in the basement. That table is on a concrete slab and I'm not even in the same room with it. If it's really that sensitive that's not really useful in practice.

The remote can't stay permanently at 100% brightness. The second remote has been out of the package only for about an hour and has already chewed through a quarter of the battery and it's not even being used. And even if it was viable laying the remote facedown isn't ideal either. We have no screen protectors yet and I'm really not too keen on risking scratching the screens on expensive remotes.

I just checked on them again. One of them dimmed down at some point and the other one is still at 100%. These remotes are sitting right next to each other.