Monitor goes to sleep within minutes

[Newbie007]

I have installed MM a week back it was all fine however since couple of days my monitor goes to sleep mode within minutes of powering on RPi.

Post installing I was playing around with couple of modules but one suspect might be PIR-Sensor though I have it disconnected currently.

My setup to disable sleep mode:

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

Added below part

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

I couldn’t find [SeatDefaults] so as a trial I made changes in Seat Configuration and [Seat : *]

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[sdetweil]

@Newbie007 said in Monitor goes to sleep within minutes:

xset s noblank
xset s off
xset -dpms

you can issue those commands manually
or you have to reboot to disable screensaver

[Newbie007]

@sdetweil i’ve already issues those commands during mm setup. Once monitor goes to sleep im unable to even wake it up

[Newbie007]

I am not even sure how to wake up the screen, I don’t have keyboard just the mouse moving that doesn’t help

[sdetweil]

@Newbie007 ok, so mouse is shown… and moves… this is not screen saver…

so, it appears MM is showing black screen

you need a keyboard to be able to get to the debug info

[Newbie007]

@sdetweil said in Monitor goes to sleep within minutes:

MM is showing black screen

I actually doubt that cause before going to sleep my monitor shows the default “HDMI” text which is usually shown before boot as well

[sdetweil]

@Newbie007 hm… well, if you reboot it, run my screensaver setup script…
see

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/11052/new-script-for-screensaver-disable

post the log after from

~/screensaver.log

[Newbie007]

This is what I got

lxsession screen saver already disabled

[sdetweil]

@Newbie007 PIR-Sensor… is that module still in config.js?

you can disable it by adding

  disabled: true,

to that module config, after the module: statement

note that PIR has some dependencies, which can cause black screen…

[Newbie007]

@sdetweil said in Monitor goes to sleep within minutes:

PIR-Sensor

Damn! You are right.

I commented whole PIR-Sensor in config.js but I followed this method as well and forgot about it.

Currently I have unplugged my PIR, let me plug it again and report back to you.

But in mean time how can I disable this?

[sdetweil]

@Newbie007 said in Monitor goes to sleep within minutes:

But in mean time how can I disable this?

what? the module? I gave u instructions in the prior post

[sdetweil]

@Newbie007 said in Monitor goes to sleep within minutes:

but I followed this method as well and forgot about it.

I don’t see a ‘method’ there… its a 4 page topic

[Newbie007]

@sdetweil said in Monitor goes to sleep within minutes:

@Newbie007 said in Monitor goes to sleep within minutes:

but I followed this method as well and forgot about it.

I don’t see a ‘method’ there… its a 4 page topic

I thought I linked you to a comment in that thread which details how to use PIR sensor to turn on/off monitor along with LED lights which is apart from PIR-Sensor module.

I commented out the module but forgot about the standalone script. Now we are good.

Thanks for your help!