I wrote a Kodi script add-on (that is different from a audio/video plugin add-on) to play a special slideshow from a directory containing images. The peculiarity of my script is that it performs a resize and crop of images on the fly, following the instructions of a playlist.

Writing the add-on I faced the problem to disable the screensaver during image playback. It turned out that on the internet you find several examples, which are sometimes confusing and not working. In this page I hope to explain all the possibilities offered by Kodi 19 Matrix.

• Stop Screensaver from Python script
• Toggle Screensaver on/off through JSON-RPC?