PIR sensor not working after installation

[vicdilou]

Hi everyone !

I followed the steps of the readme, but after rebooting the screen never turns off.
I don’t know where I am wrong but it doesn’t work ^^

Thank you.

https://github.com/paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor

[hartattack]

Is the sensor pin configured properly? Meaning in the config file for the module, the sensor pin defaults to 22. Is that the same one your sensor is connected to?

[vicdilou]

@hartattack I connected the sensor to the pin 22. I didn’t change anything else.

[vicdilou]

UP ! :)
I need help please ^^

[vicdilou]

I test the sensor with this, but it marks indefinitely “motion detected”.

from gpiozero import MotionSensor

pir = MotionSensor(4)
while True:
    if pir.motion_detected:
        print("Motion detected!")

Edit : I connected it to the GPIO 4

[spacejam]

I’m having the same issue. Should the screensaver be off? I did the original config;

sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

add the following lines:

@xset s noblank
@xset s off
@xset -dpms

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

add the following lines:

xserver-command=X -s 0 -dpms

but the screen was still blanking after 10-15 minutes so I installed xscreensaver to get around this. I’ve now taken xscreensaver off, so the screen is blanking after inactivity again, but MM doesn’t seem to recognize the PIR. I get the same results of ‘Motion Detected’ when running a .py test from the OS.