MM current version on Raspberry Pi 5 cannot turn off monitor

[jbat66]

@sdetweil Get a Yo-Link Plug. They have an API, you get your API key from an advanced menu in their app. Their plugs do grab usage, I have not used the API to grab usage, just to turn on and off, and to get temperatures from their sensors. I then use the API in MM to display the temperatures.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=yolink+smart+plug
The whole Yo-Link echo system is great for DIY folks in home automation.

[sdetweil]

@jbat66 trying to find devices without host connections… get more/all local

[jbat66]

@BKeyport the physical Mirror’s Power supply is the only thing I plug in, and the PI gets its power from USB from the display, so no extra power source to monitor.

I will probably just do a bash script to shut down the pi at some time say 10:00pm, then I will have Alexa shut down the mirror’s power (thus the pi as well) via a Yo-Link smart plug at 10:05pm. Then at sunrise via Amazon Alexa, I will just turn on mirror.

I already do this for my RV Starlink, since I have cell modem as a backup, I can use the internet to turn on and off my internet. lol

[jbat66]

@sdetweil said in MM current version on Raspberry Pi 5 cannot turn off monitor:

@jbat66 trying to find devices without host connections… get more/all local

While the Yo-Link is great it is cloud and you can’t do local yet. They have been talking about it in their forums, however.

[jbat66]

@sdetweil
I looked it up and you can get power readings via the API.
http://doc.yosmart.com/docs/yolinkapi/Outlet

[sdetweil]

@jbat66 yeh gotta get a token for each I think

[karsten13]

@sdetweil

and interesting idea being described for integrating older devices, like washing machine, is to monitor the power consumption with a smart plug… (I don’t know which do that in the US)

thats exactly what I plan for my washing machine

I wonder if the pi also has a lower consumption that can be measured and used as a trigger to turn off the smart switch when the power drops after pi shuts down…

I ordered a smart plug from TuYa for this and tested this now with a raspberry pi 4.

When the pi is running:

After shutdown of the pi but red light of pi still on:

[sdetweil]

@karsten13 awesome. I hope my plug will be here today

[jbat66]

@sdetweil So I ened up using a Yo-Link Plug, and it’s API. I have my monitor plugged into the Yo-Link Plug. I wrote a script that sets a delay time off to 1 minute for the monitor, and then 10 seconds later does a sudo power off command. So the pi shuts down gracefuly and then the monitor. The pi is powered from the usb connector on the monitor.

[JohnGalt]

@jbat66 - thanks for the offer. If you do wind up sharing your work, I will take a look and see if it works for me.

I don’t run any remote control module, and don’t find the “MMM-remote” you reference when I search. I do, however, find at least two (2) different modules called “MMM-Remote-Control” by two different authors. Do you mean one of those?

My progress so far is that I can get the monitor to turn off using the following script (called by a cron job), but the monitor then turns back on after ~10-15 seconds:

#!/bin/bash

# Script to turn off monitor display when called by crontab
export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
/usr/bin/wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --off