Power saving for only some monitors?

[hucker]

I have more than one monitor connected. I want to save power. But one screen is used to display security cameras so I want it to stay on. Is there any way (some 3rd party program if necessary) to turn off all but one monitor at the power saving timeout?

 

[Grizzly]

if the cameras are monitored by remote viewing, the answer is NO. If possible connect the DVR directly to another input of the monitor and switch to it.

 

[hucker]

It's not a DVR. It's USB cameras plugged directly into the computer. The computer records them when motion is detected.

Forget the cameras, all I need to do is make the power saving option of turning off monitors only apply to some of the monitors.

 

[BigFeet]

Some monitors have a power saving mode in their settings. It can't hurt to look. If one does, use that for your PC and the other for the cameras. I don't know of any software that will let you split power savings between monitors.

 

[hucker]

How would the monitor know when the computer had been idle? does it check for any pixels changing? That wouldn't work with changing wallpapers, the clock changing etc.

 

[BigFeet]

No, I guess even they use Windows power settings to go to sleep. So that probably won't work. I don't really have a good answer for you.