Kids playing games on OLED screen and walking off - how to make TV turn off?

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Hi all

We have an LG OLED 55CX in the sitting room hooked up to a Ryzen-based (in case it affects power options) HTPC, partly so the kids can play Lego games etc. on it.

With our previous B6, which we've just replaced, we suffered rather profound burn in / retention and colour degredation, making the set basically unwatchable for anything with green or yellow content, and I'm keen not to repeat this with the new set.

With that in mind, does anyone know of a way to make these TVs turn off / screen save / dim even when it's in an unpaused (or even paused it seems) game please?

The kids tend to walk off in the middle of a game and just leave it running, rather than save and quit.

They're young so there's realistically no reliable way I can persuade them to remember every time. Sometimes we might not spot it for hours if we're doing something else in a different part of the house, so I'd like to take away the having to check aspect.

Any brainy ideas gratefully received, thanks.
 
There should be an option to turn it off after a period of time in the settings, it's under the eco setting,
 
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Dont LG tvs detect when the screen is static and put a screensaver on after a short period of time. I dont know the rules around it, but I know when kid does this the screensaver will appear
 
Ours gets fireworks on it when there is a static screen but I have not tried it in a game to see if it works.

Dont the newer TV's have a pixel shift thing that is supposed to stop burn in?
 
chroniclard said:
Dont the newer TV's have a pixel shift thing that is supposed to stop burn in?
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They do but it only seems to make the burn in area bigger if you do get it as it obviously only shifts the pixels slightly.

Make sure the logo dimming setting is on high although I've experienced issues with it dimming the whole picture on certain content at times.

I would need to test it but I believe the fireworks screensaver doesn't work when you're using a HDMI input. My nVidia shield goes to sleep before that screensaver kicks in, not got a console to test it on.
 
on C9 but imagine CX is similar, I set Pixel shift to high. You do not get the fireworks thing with devices like PC's connected, its for built in apps like netflix.

With static content, like a menu or desktop on my HTPC, it does dimm the screen considerably after a few minutes. It does not Dimm if there is still lots of movement going on screen so not sure how the lego games are and if they leave it on game and there is still things going on. Another thing, could try to make it fun, press the microphone button and says "turn off screen" and it turns the screen off. Possibly the fact they need to talk into the remote
 
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Check the settings on the console(s) themselves, the PS4 can significantly dim the screen (then eventually turn itself off if left unused) and the Xbox can dim the screen and display a screensaver (and also turn itself off).
 
iamtheoneneo said:
Dont LG tvs detect when the screen is static and put a screensaver on after a short period of time. I dont know the rules around it, but I know when kid does this the screensaver will appear
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Yeah mine does this... not sure on the time think it's 15 minutes then the screen saver comes on
 
Since you are using a HTPC can you not just let Windows own screensaver come on after say 5min of inactivity? No idea if it works while in games though.
 
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Participant said:
Hi all

We have an LG OLED 55CX in the sitting room hooked up to a Ryzen-based (in case it affects power options) HTPC, partly so the kids can play Lego games etc. on it.

With our previous B6, which we've just replaced, we suffered rather profound burn in / retention and colour degredation, making the set basically unwatchable for anything with green or yellow content, and I'm keen not to repeat this with the new set.

With that in mind, does anyone know of a way to make these TVs turn off / screen save / dim even when it's in an unpaused (or even paused it seems) game please?

The kids tend to walk off in the middle of a game and just leave it running, rather than save and quit.

They're young so there's realistically no reliable way I can persuade them to remember every time. Sometimes we might not spot it for hours if we're doing something else in a different part of the house, so I'd like to take away the having to check aspect.

Any brainy ideas gratefully received, thanks.
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There's literally an option to make the TV turn off if nobody has touched the remote in an hour. So every hour you need to hit like volume up or down for the TV to stay on. It warns you before hand before it will switch off
 
Thanks all.

I think the issue is that when they just walk off, there's nothing to trigger the TV to turn off, because there's still sound and motion from the game. Even if they do pause it, there are animated things in the menu etc.

Also as said above, it seems that it behaves differently over HDMI in terms of screensavers etc.

I guess I'll just have to be more disciplined with checking them manually. But thanks for the ideas.
 
Participant said:
Thanks all.

I think the issue is that when they just walk off, there's nothing to trigger the TV to turn off, because there's still sound and motion from the game. Even if they do pause it, there are animated things in the menu etc.

Also as said above, it seems that it behaves differently over HDMI in terms of screensavers etc.

I guess I'll just have to be more disciplined with checking them manually. But thanks for the ideas.
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Use the auto off feature.
 
I have seen it pop up when I've been playing on my pc which is connected via hdmi. I think it's just a general 2 hours though which is a long time for a static imagine. I believe if it's a PS4 though you can set the PS4 to turn off after 15 mins if that helps.
 
unhelpful - Panasonic,oleds from lg thread, do have auto off on all hdmi inputs.

Would be an interesting smarthings diy though - motion detector for room, that triggers appropriate off IR command, if you can't signal tv via IP ?
 
theone8181 said:
I have seen it pop up when I've been playing on my pc which is connected via hdmi. I think it's just a general 2 hours though which is a long time for a static imagine. I believe if it's a PS4 though you can set the PS4 to turn off after 15 mins if that helps.
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On my TV you can set it to 1,2,3 or 4 hours iirc and it's based on remote input.

What's the chances of them literally using the remote then walking away but forgetting to use the remote to turn it off? You have to have active remot input every hour for it to stay on.

Alternatively buy a smart plug and you can say hey Google turn the TV off when it's dinner time and then problem solved.

I use a smart plug for a lamp and another for a subwoofer. Works flawlessly.

Otherwise just buy them a cheap pc monitor for £50.
 
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