Installed then uninstalled IR - still showing Idle: time

[peterworks]

As per the title. I have uninstalled IR but Idle still shows.
I appreciate I can remove it by updating EXTRA.css but not sure why it (Idle appeared in the first place.
Any ideas ?

 

[prpr]

The title and the text are inconsistent (installed vs. uninstalled).
You need to reboot after uninstalling to restore previous behaviour.
It appeared in the first place because that's how it was designed to work.

 

[peterworks]

Thanks @prpr that solved it.

 

[Black Hole]

This strikes me as a remarkably small niggle to want to get rid of.



Idle time matters if people have Menu >> Settings >> System >> Power Management >> Automatic Power Down enabled. Basically it gives a WebIF user an idea of how long they've got before the server goes off-line (when Idle reaches 3h).

It is installed as part of the ir package because it seems to be entirely estimated from the last time IR input was received. If you press the physical buttons on the box, the idle time display ignores that.

Researching this, I find it was introduced around August 2015, but curiously it is not mentioned in the ir thread, only the [webif] Web Interface 1.2.x thread.

Not everybody has Auto Power Down enabled or course, so it seems reasonable that the idle time display should be a user option in WebIF >> Settings >> Settings for ir package.

However, IMO it could also do with a revamp (not that my suggestions are necessarily technically feasible):

1. Respond to hardware button input as well as IR input;
2. Display a countdown of "time remaining until sleep" rather than "idle time";
3. Automatically hide if Auto Power Down is not enabled.

As noted in this thread, there is another mechanism for sleep: the sleep timer. To be completely reliable, the idle time display also needs to respond to the setting of the sleep timer.