No longer seeing screensaver

[podonnell 48]

This may be due to me updating my LG to a newer LG OS, as I believe the LG screensaver is kicking in faster now.

However, I think I am seeing this happen on my NVIDIA Shield as well -- basically, I haven't seen the Emby screensaver itself in quite a while.
Was there any changes there? Or perhaps a setting I may have turned off? Or, is there any way to manually kick off the screensaver? This is the one that cycles through the backdrops for your titles. I believe it used to come up when I paused a video for about 5 minutes, or if I left the home screen up.

Thanks.

[Luke 42409]

Hi, the Emby screensaver has never been included in our LG app. They rejected the app over that a long time ago, although we could probably try to get it in again.

[podonnell 48]

57 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, the Emby screensaver has never been included in our LG app. They rejected the app over that a long time ago, although we could probably try to get it in again.

Thanks for the info. Most likely I used to see it in my Shield then, but I think my LG TV update is just throwing up the built-in screensaver much faster due to no motion on the screen.

Is there any way I can cause the screensaver to start on my end sooner?

[Luke 42409]

Well what screensaver exactly are you seeing?

[podonnell 48]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

Well what screensaver exactly are you seeing?

I'm seeing my LG TV one that basically turns off the display when there's inactivity. I think they shortened the time that it kicks in. I'd love to get the Emby screensaver / slideshow up again, but I think the time that takes to kick in is longer than my TV's timeout. Was hoping I could manually start that slideshow / screensaver within Emby.

[Luke 42409]

Are you positive it's from the LG and not the Shield? Either way, are there settings to control it?

[podonnell 48]

6 minutes ago, Luke said:

Are you positive it's from the LG and not the Shield? Either way, are there settings to control it?

Silly I should have thought to look for this -- but you're right. There was a setting, it seems like that just got reset to 3 minutes after the LG OS upgrade.

I moved it to 10m. That should allow the Emby screensaver to kick in before the screen goes idle.

[podonnell 48]

So an update on this, I'm still not seeing the screensaver even with my TV screensaver set higher. Is there a specific criteria for where/when it might start? I had a movie paused for 10+ minutes, I believe it used to appear when a title was paused, but this was at least a year ago.

[Luke 42409]

In case it helps, the Emby apps waits 5 minutes.

[podonnell 48]

22 hours ago, Luke said:

In case it helps, the Emby apps waits 5 minutes.

I can confirm it is not working if that is the case. My TV is now set to a 10 minute idle timer before the screen saver kicks in.

I am not seeing the Emby screensaver / library slideshow start at all. I attempted this by pausing on a playing item and not pressing any buttons for over 5 minutes.

Last night it was tested on the LG app, but I am quite certain this is also occurring on my Shield app.

[Luke 42409]

Can you give it another try?

[podonnell 48]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

Can you give it another try?

Sure thing, should 4.9.3.0 be okay to try on?

[Luke 42409]

Well it's more the app version that matters.

[podonnell 48]

On 4/29/2026 at 12:52 AM, Luke said:

Well it's more the app version that matters.

Just tried on LG v1.0.50, paused a video and let it six for 6 minutes, no screensaver / slideshow came up.

[Luke 42409]

1 hour ago, podonnell said:

Just tried on LG v1.0.50, paused a video and let it six for 6 minutes, no screensaver / slideshow came up.

How did you configure it in the app?

[podonnell 48]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

How did you configure it in the app?

The only relevant option I see in App Settings is 'Photo slideshow time per slide'.

Is there any other setting related to it? I checked all the menus and unless I missed it, didn't see any others.

[podonnell 48]

So I might have found the issue - 

I tried on my Shield last night, and no screensaver after 5 minuets.
I then checked the settings on the Shield and under App Settings --> General, there was an option for Screensaver, with some options as to which kind to use.
I enabled that, but did not yet wait the 5 minutes to see it work, but I'd like to believe that did the trick.

However, this setting is entirely missing from the LG App. So I am wondering if the screensaver fallback setting is just off, since this option is not presented.