I've got a DirecTV R16 DVR receiver. It's a recent "upgrade" from my personally owned receivers that I've had since 1999. The new DVR has been driving me bats because it turns on a screensaver and there's no way to disable it on the receiver itself. The screensaver comes on around 2 hours after the receiver has been powered on. I started to think of ways to get around this and was hoping there might be a way to send a signal to the DVR automatically (without my intervention) from a laptop or from a remote if a remote with that kind of capability exists.
Just in case anyone was wondering, I did contact DirecTV about this. They consider it a feature and I get the feeling they will never allow the screensaver to be disabled by end users...
Does anyone know of a way to send a signal at regular intervals to the DVR so that it doesn't put itself in screensaver mode?
Just in case anyone was wondering, I did contact DirecTV about this. They consider it a feature and I get the feeling they will never allow the screensaver to be disabled by end users...

Does anyone know of a way to send a signal at regular intervals to the DVR so that it doesn't put itself in screensaver mode?