How to keep mobile screen on

Question

I'm working on a Meteor Application which runs for long times and I'm looking for a way to keep the screen on when there's no user activity (while the app is running of course).

Thanks

Answer 1

If I read the documentation correctly, and I may not, because I've never used this before, then you can add the insomnia plugin to your cordova/phonegap build like this:

$ meteor add cordova:nl.x-services.plugins.insomnia@https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/Insomnia-PhoneGap-Plugin/tarball/47ba15a4ad791eb4d5a0643cdb7ef69f73109e15

And then use:

window.plugins.insomnia.keepAwake()

and

window.plugins.insomnia.allowSleepAgain()

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Update for Meteor 1.2:

Install plugins from a Git URL: Meteor no longer supports installing Cordova plugins from tarball URLs, but does support Git URLs with a SHA reference (like https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file#c452f1a67f41cb1165c92555f0e721fbb07329cc). Existing GitHub tarball URLs are converted automatically.

This means that you now need to use:

$ meteor add cordova:nl.x-services.plugins.insomnia@https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/Insomnia-PhoneGap-Plugin#47ba15a4ad791eb4d5a0643cdb7ef69f73109e15

Update 2

As user3819370 points out, the plugin is now in the registry being used by meteor, so you can simply install it like this:

meteor add cordova:cordova-plugin-insomnia@4.0.1