Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
How to hide desktop screen when raspberry turned on?
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@sdetweil good to know, thanks for the tip.
According to you, the 50s I’m talking about is ok or long?
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@bretonesf - That’s about right for a RPi 3B+.
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@bhepler - Nice, thank you.
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FWIW, there’s lots of modules available for turning off/blanking the screen when not needed - that way you can leave the pi running (at minimal power use) and just have the screen turn off and on with a sensor or button…
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@BKeyport or webcam in my case
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@sdetweil I’d put that under “sensor” – but how do you do that?
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@BKeyport i didn’t want to program for every webcam out there, so I found a system level library that does it
the motion project… it can do all kinds of video/pics on motion…
https://github.com/Motion-Project/motionbut it also can call a script/program when motion starts/ends… so I wrote a MM screensaver module that watches for the events from the external motion module… now my TV’s don’t support any cool way to turn off the display, so I hide all the modules… and show later on motion…
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-SleepWake
(and I use this same approach on a different smart-mirror that I found before MM)…