Idle detection and Services

Hey,

We have been investigating using the Deadline service to increase security and render on workstations.

Am I right in thinking that idle detection doesn’t work with the service?

Done some experiments, and it seems that the idle detection starts the slave but doesn’t stop it again. This would make sense I guess, since the service is running as different user than the one logged in.

Yup. That’s exactly right. The API calls we make for mouse and keyboard usage don’t work in a service context.