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That was pretty much it and it worked good. I wanted the screensavers to be running when open hours starts, but the monitors turn off (which is good). | That was pretty much it and it worked good. I wanted the screensavers to be running when open hours starts, but the monitors turn off (which is good). | ||
To solve this I wrote a simple AutoHotkey script that checks if the computer has been idle for 5 minutes and will start the screensaver if it has. I use Windows taks scheduler to run this script when the open hours begins. This doesn't seem to work 100% of the time. If anyone knows how to solve this let me know. | To solve this I wrote a simple AutoHotkey script that checks if the computer has been idle for 5 minutes and will start the screensaver if it has. I use Windows taks scheduler to run this script when the open hours begins. This doesn't seem to work 100% of the time. If anyone knows how to solve this let me know. | ||
We could also add digital photo frames to the stations that don't have computers (Sewing, Electronics, Woodworking etc). | |||
[[Category:Projects]] | [[Category:Projects]] | ||
Revision as of 19:57, 11 November 2023
Overview
The idea is to have a screensaver at the stations with a computer that shows projects people have made using the tools at that station. This was the easy part.
- Made folders C:\Photo Screensaver _StationName_
- Added photos from our Flickr or google photos collections
- Set the screensaver to photo and that folder
- Set the screensaver to 10 minutes thinking that was short enough to be annoying.
Over Complicating Things
That was pretty much it and it worked good. I wanted the screensavers to be running when open hours starts, but the monitors turn off (which is good). To solve this I wrote a simple AutoHotkey script that checks if the computer has been idle for 5 minutes and will start the screensaver if it has. I use Windows taks scheduler to run this script when the open hours begins. This doesn't seem to work 100% of the time. If anyone knows how to solve this let me know.
We could also add digital photo frames to the stations that don't have computers (Sewing, Electronics, Woodworking etc).