Close Browser when Screen is Off

[mikldt]

It would be ideal to close the browser while the screen is scheduled "off". This would save power, bandwidth, and server load. It could also provide a fallback screen blanking method for scheduled off times, so that "off" isn't totally meaningless when direct screen control is not available.

Two roadblocks come to mind:

• On the server side, we would need to make sure the screen isn't registered as offline when the content requests end - perhaps the Player API polling could act as a stand-in.
• We need to figure out how to coordinate with the OS so that bandshell remains browser-agnostic. Perhaps the Player could provide "browser-start" and "browser-stop" shell scripts that Bandshell could hook into?