Screen and Energy Saver With Zoom Rooms

Zoom Rooms on Mac or PC has digital signage option and operation time settings. As such, Zoom Rooms should not be placed in Screen Saver or Sleep/Power Saver mode. 

How to disable Screen Saver and Energy Saver

Windows

Disable Screen Saver:

Windows 7
  1. Click the Windows Start button, and click Control Panel.
  2. Click the System and Security then click Power Options.
  3. Click Choose when to turn off the display.
  4. Set Turn off the display and Put the Computer to sleep to Never.
  5. Click Save Changes.

Windows 8
  1. Open Power Options by clicking the Windows Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Security, and then clicking Power Options.
  2. On the Select a power plan page, click Change plan settings next to the selected plan.
  3. On the Change settings for the plan page, click Change advanced power settings.
  4. On the Advanced settings tab, double-click Sleep, double-click Sleep after, and then do one of the following:
    • Click Setting, click the arrow, and then click Never.
  5. Double-click Hibernate after, and then do one of the following:
    • Click Setting, click the arrow, and then click Never.
  6. If you also want the display to stay turned on, double-click Display, double-click Turn off display after, and then do one of the following:
    • Click Setting, click the arrow, and then click Never.
  7. Click OK, and then click Save changes.
Windows 10
  1. Click the Windows Start Menu, and choose Settings.
  2. Choose ‘System’ and then Power & sleep.
  3. Select Never under both options for both Screen and Sleep.

Scheduled Restart:

  1. Click the Windows Start Menu, and type taskschd.msc is start search and hit Enter to open the Task Scheduler.
  2. In the right panel, click on Create Basic Task.
  3. Give it name and a description if you wish and click Next.
  4. When asked When do you want the task to start, select Weekly. Click Next.
  5. Select the Start date and time. (i.e. Sunday between 2:00-4:00)
  6. Clicking Next will bring you to the Action page. Here select Start a program and click on Next.
  7. Type "shutdown under Program/Script: then add shutdown/r or shutdown /g in the Add arguments box. If you want the shutdown to commence after say 60 sec, type 60 instead of 0 here.
  8. Click Next to review all and finally click Finish. Your computer will shutdown at the designated day and time.
macOS

Disable Screen Saver:

Disable Energy Saver Mode:

Scheduled Restart:

We also recommend that you schedule a periodic (bi-weekly, monthly) restart of the Mac Mini (say at 300am).