cabaker1990
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Is there a way to stop the screensaver without touching the screen, that is, with a tag.
The problem is that the Screensaver is an operating system feature, and it's not tied into FactoryTalk View ME.
I have explored this pretty thoroughly and have not found a way to turn off the Screen Saver function via a PLC or FactoryTalk View ME event.
I chose instead to not use the Screen Saver, but rather to do a 'roll your own' idle screen detector, and use the PLC to set the Display Intensity when I detect that nobody has pressed a button or changed displays for a period of time.
It would be nice if you could do a "pointer jiggle" or similar OS function based on a PLC tag state, but I've never seen it done on a PanelView Plus.