Screensaver Disable for Tandberg

[MACC the AVCOtek]

Does anyone remember the steps to take to disable the screensaver function of a TANDBERG codec? What I want to do is make it so the codec never goes to sleep.

Mahalo, in advance!

[robertk]

telnet to the system

use the command:

screensaver disable


//Robert

[Entropy3XD]

telnet to the system

use the command:

screensaver disable


//Robert

This will work, however, I am told that once you reboot the system it does not save the disable command. One of our techs called Tandberg today and here is what he was told to disable the screensaver, even after reboot.

FTP into the Tandberg. Download Startup file (i think it is startup.prm). Add the following line of code to the file: *P screensaver disable
Save the file and upload to the codec.

I have not tried this, so maybe if any of our friends from Tandberg are out there they can verify that I have this right.

Here is another handy one. If any of you have ever had to toggle between VGA main and S-Video main, you may have had the occasion where you have accidentally locked yourself out of the main menu screen by not switching VGA back to Dual before disconnecting the VGA. Once you plug into the S-Video monitor you would no longer be able to see the menu screen, only the Tandberg logo (secondary monitor mode). To default the Tandberg back to S-Video Main output, use the following remote control commands in this order: Snapshot, Farend, Snapshot, 1

[MACC the AVCOtek]

Thank you!

I am in the process of trying it now.... Waiting for my codec to try to go sleep. I may beat it to the punch. zzZZzzzz =]

[Sean Lessman]

This will work, however, I am told that once you reboot the system it does not save the disable command. One of our techs called Tandberg today and here is what he was told to disable the screensaver, even after reboot.

FTP into the Tandberg. Download Startup file (i think it is startup.prm). Add the following line of code to the file: *P screensaver disable
Save the file and upload to the codec.

I have not tried this, so maybe if any of our friends from Tandberg are out there they can verify that I have this right.

Here is another handy one. If any of you have ever had to toggle between VGA main and S-Video main, you may have had the occasion where you have accidentally locked yourself out of the main menu screen by not switching VGA back to Dual before disconnecting the VGA. Once you plug into the S-Video monitor you would no longer be able to see the menu screen, only the Tandberg logo (secondary monitor mode). To default the Tandberg back to S-Video Main output, use the following remote control commands in this order: Snapshot, Farend, Snapshot, 1

Hi guys,

The file you want to use is 'startup1.prm' which will load whatever commands you put into the file when the system starts up. So do NOT put the 'boot' command in there :-)

Another hidden quick sequence is snapshot, farend, snapshot 0 which returns the menu system to English.

Sean

[vtjoe]

According to the "Technical Description of TANDBERG 6000".....
The "startup1.prm" file should be located in the "user" directory of the Tandberg codec.

I have done this for our systems and it works.

[MACC the AVCOtek]

Well, I'd love to report that it works for me too...but it doesn't.

There was no startup1.prm file so I created one in TextPad with the following single line - *P screensaver disable.
Then I FTP it to the user directory and restart the codec (I've tried both soft and hard restarts). When I telnet to the unit and do a dispparam it shows the screensaver is still enabled.

My codec has version B7.0 software. Anybody got any ideas?

[trapehzoid]

make sure there is a carriage return at the end of the line in the startup1.prm file. You should see the parameter changed a few seconds after boot, because as someone else posted, the commands are executing when the codec boots up. So querying the command's status is a good test to see if the script worked.

[MACC the AVCOtek]

The carriage return did it.

Many Mahalos!

(it's the details that always kill you isn't it?)