Kodi stops video once my shield TV goes into daydream, can you disable that?

by ParadoxicGer

Hey,

like my title mentions, once the Shield goes into daydream the video you were watching gets closed automatically just like when you switch to the "desktop" of the google Launcher.

Is this an Android thing or is there a setting in Kodi which can disable this so that once you return the video is still on and you are not in the menu? This wouldn't be such a big deal with resume points or if daydream could be set for 3h instead the maximum of 1 but I never got resume points working so I always have to fast forward to the previous point where I stopped watching and that is annoying.

I also know that I can disable sleep all together via the dev menu but I'd like to avoid that.

Thanks!

Edit: Found out that the SPMC Kodi Fork actually doesn't do that, I dislike having no Xperience1080 menu though. So it's definitely possible, maybe it's just a Kodi setting. Hope you guys can help me here.

nooneisreal

It's on purpose. There's no setting you can easily access to change it.
If you want that function then stick to SPMC (which I would recommend anyway) or downgrade Kodi to Isengard (v15).
The Kodi devs won't be changing it back as far as I know.

Xperience1080 should work just fine on SPMC. I just installed it on my copy (16.3.0) as a test and everything seems to be working.

Edit: a few people are reporting a bug with the skin on the latest version of Kodi/SPMC.
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=240437&page=14
So I guess you can use the skin as it is and hope you don't run into similar issues, or wait for the developer to release an update.

NedSc

You can use your skin in SPMC.

BonzenPaule

I know this is not helping you but I think something is wrong with your shield or Kodi. Daydream never should activate itself while a Video or Music is playing in Kodi. On my setup (Shield 3.1 & Kodi 16.1) Daydream actually never activates itself while Kodi is on. I've set Daydream to 5 Min and I can have Kodi on without doing anything for as long as I want without that Daydream starts. I disabled the screensaver in Kodi maybe this option is helping you. Dunno... Like I said it wont help you with your problem but when I read your post I felt like something is really wrong at your end.

robbievega

Mine does the same, also with paused YouTube vids. This has been so since the last Kodi update. Before that it would remain paused in daydream.

chowder007

I have the same issue. The way I fixed it was to increase the time when daydream activates. This has largely fixed it for me.