PIR sensor to turn monitor off. Nothing works :(

elleclouds

@wishmaster270 got it working with your tutorial but once the monitor goes into sleep mode, after not receiving a signal, it doesn’t turn back on unless I unplug and plug it back in.

wishmaster270

@elleclouds Hi, do you see any output of the Gpio module in the log file?

satsatt

@wishmaster270
the cmdline.txt was already ok , i really had to install xscreensaver and disable screensaver to solve my problem.

cowboysdude

It won’t get any easier then this…

https://github.com/cowboysdude/Pir-Sensor

elleclouds

@wishmaster270 said in PIR sensor to turn monitor off. Nothing works :(:

@elleclouds Hi, do you see any output of the Gpio module in the log file?

So I got it working with your tutorial. My only issue now is when the monitor doesn’t have a signal it turns completely off and won’t turn back on unless its unplugged and plugged back in. Is there a way to keep the monitor on, just asleep so that the HDMI signal when signaled, activates the screen?

wishmaster270

Hi,
it depends on your monitor. Maybe there is an option in the monitor configuration menu.
If not you can configure the MMM-Screen-Powersave-Notification module to only hide all modules and show the black background instead of turning the hdmi off (hideInsteadShutoff option)

elleclouds

@wishmaster270 Since the monitor would stay on… would that have any benefits? I can’t access the menu of the monitor due to taking it apart and not knowing where the button to access the menu is located. Thanks for all the assistance and advice, I appreciate it.

wishmaster270

@elleclouds Black causes the display to turn off the backlight which saves energy. But it is surely less effective than switching the display to standby mode.

elleclouds

@wishmaster270 I’m using this in the config file but its coming back with an error. What am I doing wrong?

{
        module: 'MMM-Screen-Powersave-Notification',
        config: {
            delay: 60,
            hideInsteadShutoff:true,
            }
        }
    }

sdetweil

@elleclouds said in PIR sensor to turn monitor off. Nothing works :(:

What am I doing wrong?

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