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I just wish I could get the auto-turn off timer to disable. I've disabled it everywhere in menus. Still, after a few hours of it being connected to my Apple TV

I just wish I could get the auto-turn off timer to disable. I've disabled it everywhere in menus. Still, after a few hours of it being connected to my Apple TV 4K, it gives me the whole "TV will be turned off in five minutes unless you press a button on the controller" bullshit. Other than that I just want the thing to be a lowest-possible-latency, accuratest-possible-colour dumb display. No cool shit, just a dumb accurate fast panel.

maweki 5y ago
Maybe you could periodically give some remote control command through one of the WebOSTV python libraries. Needs networking though. Alternatively, an Arduino/ESP that sends a useless IR signal.
doikor 5y ago
If you can get your hands on a service remote it will allow you to access a menu to disable that and a bunch more (a lot of the OLED burnin prevention features you can’t normally fully disable)
- 0x53 5y ago
  If you have a phone with a IR blaster (mostly older LG phones) you have download an android app that with act as an LG service remote
  - BenjiWiebe 5y ago
    Some old Samsungs have it as well, such as the Galaxy S5.
  - heeen2 5y ago
    You can do it with a rpi, ir diode and resistor even. The tool for sending and receiving ir commands is called lirc
  - genewitch 5y ago
    Huawei and Xiaomi phones have IR blasters as well. I always try to buy phones that have those, because A) "i lost the remote" and B) "shut off every TV at the store" is hilarious. The first device i had that had this was a Palm, and it wasn't like "here's a remote control" it was "this 1 button will cycle every known TV IR code for the power button." Someone eventually released an actual IR blaster app for Palms, though.
- antihero 5y ago
  This sorta thing? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390856037063 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390856037063 or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363604565328 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363604565328 I don't have an IR blastable phone.
mojomark 5y ago
This problem reminded me of an equally frustrating struggle I read about on Kiva [1], in which a woman named Svetlana in Maldova (a medical worker out of work due to severe back pain) and her husband (a driver) can't seem to scrape together enough capital to connect their house to a source of running water and eliminate the need to routinely lug water in from a nearby well. Happy Thanksgiving! 1. https://www.kiva.org/lend-beta/2279796 https://www.kiva.org/lend-beta/2279796
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  > This problem reminded me of an equally frustrating struggle Could you perhaps explain the similarity?
  - MobiusHorizons 5y ago
    I read it as a sarcastic and round about way of calling this a first world problem.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
  HN is intended for discussion of computers and related subjects, isn’t it? What’s wrong with that?

maweki 5y ago

Maybe you could periodically give some remote control command through one of the WebOSTV python libraries. Needs networking though. Alternatively, an Arduino/ESP that sends a useless IR signal.

doikor 5y ago

If you can get your hands on a service remote it will allow you to access a menu to disable that and a bunch more (a lot of the OLED burnin prevention features you can’t normally fully disable)

0x53 5y ago
If you have a phone with a IR blaster (mostly older LG phones) you have download an android app that with act as an LG service remote
- BenjiWiebe 5y ago
  Some old Samsungs have it as well, such as the Galaxy S5.
- heeen2 5y ago
  You can do it with a rpi, ir diode and resistor even. The tool for sending and receiving ir commands is called lirc
- genewitch 5y ago
  Huawei and Xiaomi phones have IR blasters as well. I always try to buy phones that have those, because A) "i lost the remote" and B) "shut off every TV at the store" is hilarious. The first device i had that had this was a Palm, and it wasn't like "here's a remote control" it was "this 1 button will cycle every known TV IR code for the power button." Someone eventually released an actual IR blaster app for Palms, though.
antihero 5y ago
This sorta thing? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390856037063 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390856037063 or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363604565328 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363604565328 I don't have an IR blastable phone.

mojomark 5y ago

This problem reminded me of an equally frustrating struggle I read about on Kiva [1], in which a woman named Svetlana in Maldova (a medical worker out of work due to severe back pain) and her husband (a driver) can't seem to scrape together enough capital to connect their house to a source of running water and eliminate the need to routinely lug water in from a nearby well. Happy Thanksgiving! 1. https://www.kiva.org/lend-beta/2279796 https://www.kiva.org/lend-beta/2279796

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
> This problem reminded me of an equally frustrating struggle Could you perhaps explain the similarity?
- MobiusHorizons 5y ago
  I read it as a sarcastic and round about way of calling this a first world problem.
kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
HN is intended for discussion of computers and related subjects, isn’t it? What’s wrong with that?