NX1/NX500 mod: trying to disable powersave in mod_gui

zirco77 wrote:

Hi,

I sometimes like to leave power saving features to 30 sec screen off, and 1 min sleep. However, using mod_gui menu does not "count" as using the camera, so it goes black if I take too long in that menu.

That's not something that happens often, but I thought I might tackle this slight annoyance anyway. I tried disabling power saving before entering the menu and re-enabling it after, but it didn't fully work.

Am I missing some point about changing settings through 'st' (or maybe my issue is specific to 'st app nx menu' or any "level" in between)?

Here's my first attemp in EV_EV.sh:

...

st app nx menu powersave off

sync

/opt/usr/nx-on-wake/mod_gui /opt/usr/nx-on-wake/main

sync

st app nx menu powersave on

sync

...

Don't know if the 'sync' are needed here. While it successfully leaves my camera awake during mod_gui, power saving is not re-enabled on exit. The camera just stays awake indefinitely.

I replaced the last line above with a bit of cargo cult:

sync; sync; sync

Not any better.

Workaround: pressing menu button twice and (enter and exit the real menu) re-enables power saving settings as they should. I haven't tried performing other actions that might work too.

Sure, if I replace the last sync with

st key click menu; st key click menu

to simulate my workaround, then it works fine, but it takes 1-2 seconds and most important, bringing up and closing the real menu on mod menu exit is plain ugly!

This is not so easy (else we would have done it already). Mod_gui and the other until utils [I blame phone autocorrect] need to be tweaked.

The issue is that all the scripts are exiting before the UI finishes because, for example, mod_gui needs to relaunch itself in some instances.

There are other problems as well, inherent to the usage of scripts and these will be solved but not in the immediate future.

Rgds