Stop the screensaver!

sdetweil · Mar 6, 2019, 5:57 PM

@Anthony and if MM is not running at all, what happens?

I run voice, and imageslideshow and don’t see this. If I shut down MM, screen will stay in forever

Anthony · Mar 8, 2019, 11:58 AM

@sdetweil
Mine too. If MM is shut down my screen is always on. This also happen if modules with movement are shown in the MM like MMM-ImageSlideShow which have pictures rotating. My screen goes black only when I have modules like clock,calendar,forunecookie,rfacs etc shown. I don’t know if a specific module cause this. For example I now have my MM on for 5 days without black screen and the modules shown are clock, calendar, stats, compliments, news, pictures and weather. If I hide pictures module or replace it with rfacts for example in about half an hour I will get the screensaver black screen.

Anthony · Mar 12, 2019, 7:52 AM

Update.
Last 3-4 days my MM was running just fine without screensaver appears. Last night it happened again so I restart MM in dev mode to see if I find an error after the the screensaver’s black screen. When I moved the mouse (after some time the screensaver had appeared) the screen was white and in dev console I had a message saying websocket disconnected or something like that. Usually when I moved the mouse after the screensaver and without the dev tools enabled the black screen dissapears and I get my MM screen back. This time was different. I’ll try to upload a screenshot when I get home.

sdetweil · Mar 12, 2019, 10:40 AM

usually when u see that the MM runtime has crashed for some reason… even the debug console is gone

I haven’t found a way to debug what has happened… I see this occasionally…

Anthony · Mar 13, 2019, 9:36 AM

This is getting too weird. Yesterday I had the MM running in dev mode and after I saw the screensaver I moved the mouse and everything came back as normal and no errors in the console. I don’t know why this happens not all the time and with different characteristics everytime.

sdetweil · Mar 13, 2019, 10:12 AM

@Anthony when the screen went to sleep was the developer window hidden too?

when my MMM-SleepWake hides all the modules, the Developers console is still on the screen

Anthony · Mar 13, 2019, 10:19 AM

@sdetweil
In my case when the screen goes to sleep everything is hidden, modules, dev console etc. I see only black screen. Is there any possibility that pi “forgets” the setting to disable the screensaver? I will try to go and change this setting and after put it back again to see if anyhting changes.

sdetweil · Mar 13, 2019, 10:51 AM

@Anthony interesting… neither of my systems has forgotten the screen saver setting, been running for over 2 years now…

Anthony · Mar 13, 2019, 11:53 AM

@sdetweil
I don’t think that this is the problem but I want to test it just in case.

bhepler · Mar 14, 2019, 4:30 PM

At this point, I’m thinking a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade might be in order. There could be a bug in the Pi’s power management routines.