How to keep Microsoft teams status active?

Question

In Microsoft Teams, the status changes to "away" after a while being inactive.

Is there any way in Python to keep it active all the time?

i think you can use some windows api to send messages like 'activate window' to the process. — Lei Yang, Feb 08 '22 at 06:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 08 '22 at 06:27

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one way worked for me on windows

this will keep your windows awake and prevent it from locking/hibernating

#Devil
import ctypes
import sys

#use this to reset the status
def display_reset():
    ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetThreadExecutionState(0x80000000)
    sys.exit(0)

def display_on():
    print("Always On")
    ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetThreadExecutionState(0x80000002)

display_on()

answered Feb 08 '22 at 06:27

Devil

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Could you please refer below thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2090464/python-window-activation – ChetanSharma-msft Feb 08 '22 at 08:37
@Devil - Could you please confirm is your issue resolved or are you still facing the issue? – Nivedipa-MSFT Feb 08 '22 at 10:38
@Nivedipa-MSFT : it is solved in windows using above method, still looking for the option to do it in ubuntu18 – Devil Feb 09 '22 at 04:52
@Devil - Are you trying the same python script in ubuntu ? – ChetanSharma-msft Feb 09 '22 at 07:04
@ChetanSharma-msft : No – Devil Feb 09 '22 at 08:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '22 at 12:41

This works for me in Fedora. Just send the main Teams process a SIGUSR1 before the status changes. The script will continue in the background.

#!/bin/bash

signal() {
  while sleep 60 ; do
    kill ${1} ${2} || exit 0
  done
}

PID=$(pgrep -f 'teams.*disable-setuid-sandbox')

[ -z "${PID}" ] && {
  echo "${0}: Teams process not found" >&2
  exit 1
}

(signal -SIGUSR1 ${PID}&)&

How to keep Microsoft teams status active?

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