Timer stops without blanking mode

[neversun]

If the user deactivates blanking mode, the timer will pause once device goes into deep sleep.

Dirty fix: Remove setting to disable blanking mode until proper fix.

Current fix: Send a D-Bus message to prevent sleep. Stops working if user locks screen himself.

[neversun]

Dirty fix applied with 6934e2a.

[neversun]

Once insomniac is implemented, I should be able to keep the timer running even if blanking is possible.

[Sikarjan]

I am having the same issue with my app. But I just saw that you removed insomniac from your project. What is your current solution to the issue?

[neversun]

I removed insomniac because I got some problems while re-compiling it for some newer Sailfish version.
Right now I am sending a D-Bus message to disable blanking. It works fine as long as you do not lock your screen manually.

Can you tell me your Sailfish OS version and when the problem appears?

[Sikarjan]

Sorry for misleading you. I am not talking about your app.
So your bug fix is to keep the display on, right?
I tried the kitchen timer which uses insomniac and that works on the current version but I cannot get it working in my app.
The right solution would be to use libkeepalive, which is used by the official apps, but it is not allowed for developers... The source code is available here. I managed to build shared libs from that but I could not get them through QA because shared libs are not allowed to link to other libs.

[neversun]

Now I see 😆.

libkeepalive looks promising yes, but as you said it is not available. For now I would recommend you to use the easy way and do sth like I did. Not my idea but John's with his slumber sleep timer.

Just include the ScreenBlank and enable it when needed (like this)

[Sikarjan]

Apparently libkeepalive is allowed. It fails in rpm validator but I still got it past QA. Here is what they wrote:
"Thanks for the efforts on this. We have made internal bug about libkeepalive to be allowed in harbour. "

With libkeepalive you should be able to fix this bug.

[neversun]

Thanks @Sikarjan! I will give it a try.