xLights Scheduler Help

[usafltg]

Hi all -

I seem to be having an issue with xLights Scheduler which is up and running, however, it supresses my computer from locking, and if I lock my computer it's running from before a scheduled show, then the show won't play or kick off while the computer is locked. I also have a screen saver enabled but I don't know if that's causing amy issues as well.

I'm leaving on vacation and just want my schedule to kick off every night at the same time, but I don't want to leave my computer unlocked.

 

[Skymaster]

xSchedule has special functionality to prevent the screensaver from kicking in as it will interfere with the show running. "Keep Screen On" is the option. My guess this is also preventing the screen from locking.
It also prevents power management from putting the computer to sleep.

You can try unticking this, however, it may cause issues.

Usually you'd use a dedicated machine for this rather than your main computer, and therefore keeping it unlocked is not a problem.

 

[usafltg]

xSchedule has special functionality to prevent the screensaver from kicking in as it will interfere with the show running. "Keep Screen On" is the option. My guess this is also preventing the screen from locking.
It also prevents power management from putting the computer to sleep.

You can try unticking this, however, it may cause issues.

Usually you'd use a dedicated machine for this rather than your main computer, and therefore keeping it unlocked is not a problem.

I have a server rack down in the basement I was considering putting this on as well, which makes the most logical sense, but it doesn't have a high end gpu or anything capable of doing the rendering for some of the shaders and other things. It's an old poweredge with xeon processors and a bunch of VMs running on it.

I don't have a problem with it running on my desktop computer at end, but would be nice if I could run it off on my server on a windows VM.