{HowTo} turn on/off your monitor (Time based, PIR/Button, App)

Asphyth

Hi, ! thanks for this GREEATTTTT TUTORIAL !

Working great with python,

About that, when my screen is turning down he shows “No signal” before turning black, any solution to hide this ?

pugsly

@Asphyth That is your monitor, its not coming from the Pi.

sdetweil

@Asphyth that is the energy star power down requirement. it warns you of no signal, and then is required to turn the display off electrically to save power

pascal006

hi!!
for this point the … always running i dont have LED to make a test . So my question is do i did a mistake someware ?

You can check if your button works by simply typing python pir.py. Every time u move through the PIR or press the button it will show you several …
End the test with “ctrl+c”

Peter Leemon

Hi all have followed step 2.1 got my tv to turn off and back on ok but doesn’t stay on for long at all (only a few seconds)?

FREIGHTTRAIN

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Fozi

@FREIGHTTRAIN Can you elaborate more precisely, what is not working? What have you done? What is the expected behaviour? How does it behave? How to reproduce? That might help in helping you.

drk-geek

hi @cruunnerr
I just installed it, everything looks good but not working at all. I tried via 2.1 Using PIR-Module and 2.2 Using PIR-Script both not working, any suggestion how to check where the issue is?

deebee999

@cruunnerr
I have had success with your help and my PIR sensor but only after running pir.py from .bashrc

The script is working however I read the following warning when accessing my Magic Mirror with SSH:

RuntimeWarning. This channel is already in use, continuing anyway. io.setup(LED_PIN, io.OUT)

My end result is not affected. The PIR works fine.

Thank you

maptecnet

Just a little feedback that was a huge help for me.
@cruunnerr don’t know if you want to add this information on your first message.

I have a samsung d6000 series tv that wouldn’t work anyway with modules for PIR sensor. A BIG aplause for all developers but i coudn’t get the tv out of “No Signal” message. The MagicMirror would turn image off but tv only in “No Signal”.

I’m not a programmer and just went on test and try.

I figured out that the https://github.com/bugsounet/MMM-NewPIR from @Bugsounet (BIG thanks to you also!) managed the problem!!

With this module set to mode: 4 - use HDMI CEC the TV shuts down when the MagicMirror tells her to shut down!
It’s straight through ON and OFF as expected!

I’me very thankful to you all managing to help us out!
Thanks!