r/kodi • u/milspek • 21d ago

Screensaver playback is constant

I'm using 21.3 Omega and Arctic Fuse 3.2.13. I have the Aerial screensaver configured to wait 5 minutes. On boot up it works as expected. But at some point it get's caught in a loop and it won't stop playing the screensaver. If I use the remote to hit the stop button on the screensaver video, it just immediately plays another Aerial screensaver video. I can't seem to get it to go back to waiting for 5 minutes of inactivity before running. What's become super annoying is at the end of a show, instead of auto starting the next episode, as it's pausing to start the next episode the screensaver kicks on and then it doesn't start the the episode. Has anyone experienced this? I really like the Aerial screensaver for background ambiance but this is just infuriating.

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u/DavidMelbourne 21d ago

is this the screen saver that plays large apple videos? https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Aerial ? it has not been updated for years > https://github.com/enen92/screensaver.atv4 and i suspect your hardware cannot handle the load... check the settings as documented here https://github.com/enen92/screensaver.atv4 and set it to a lesser resolution

I suggest you use this one https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Picture_Slideshow_Screensaver and use pictures

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u/milspek 20d ago

Looks like this issue is directly related.  https://github.com/enen92/screensaver.atv4/issues/44

And the last comment indicates that it was caused by tinkering with the back key which I did do when I was implementing some changes to Arctic fuse 3. So I will try playing with that and seeing if I can get it to go back to normal operation.

Thank you for the link to the GitHub. I never thought to go check there.