muhammadusmannaeem / awake

Keeping screen alive

Awake

To keep the computer from sleeping

If your work-computer sleeps and shows Away status if you don't interact with it within every 5 minutes or so, here's a solution.

Possible Approaches

Generally this can easily be done by tweeking some settings or running a windows batch or powershell script. But they both require administrative access to install prerequisites or to paste them in windows folder.

Solution

So here's a solution, the script itself is awake.py, that is a pretty straightforward script and explains what it is doing. The real problem is to run it as there is not Python (Python3) or any library installed.

This can be done by making this script an executable file awake.exe with Python Interpreter along with all the libraries and dependencies pre-loaded in folders. That is what is done here.

This script is tuned for 2 minutes (120 seconds) and it moves the cursor to 4 coordinates, and presses shift key (That doesn't do anything) after each 120 interval.

Changes

To make any changes to the script, directly making them in awake.py will do nothing as its sole purpose is to show you what is being done. So, you will have to make changes to awake.py and again convert it to executable again.

Note: Make sure to delete everything except awake.py before doing it!

Author

Muhammad Usman Naeem

github.com/Usman-Naeem