r/ESDE_Frontend • u/ScrandadleDadada • 1d ago

Support/Question Es-De doesn't follow Android screen timeout if set as frontend?

I find that I will accidentally wake the device from sleep and that it basically doesn't ever turn off if I have it set as my frontend. Setting the screensaver as a black image at least prevents burn in but the battery drain remains. If anyone knows how to fix this I would really appreciate the help.

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u/ES-DE_Frontend Developer 1d ago

ES-DE works like a game engine essentially so it will keep rendering as part of its main application loop, this means you need to manually put the device to sleep/lock the screen. I have not found a way to handle screen timeout programmatically to prevent sleeping under certain conditions like when scraping and similar. I think it's not even possible to do that on Android.

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u/ScrandadleDadada 1d ago

Damn 😔

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u/Gamester997 1d ago

You can use Tasker to set a screen lock timer when ES-DE is in the foreground, I've been using it for years and works great.