PIR sensor to turn monitor off. Nothing works :(

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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elleclouds

@sdetweil Did you change it for me, because it looks in the correct format? Any help with the code?

sdetweil

@elleclouds yes I changed it… know nothing about the module sorry

sdetweil

@sdetweil well, u have 1 more close brace } then u have opens {

{
        module: 'MMM-Screen-Powersave-Notification',
        config: {
            delay: 60,
            hideInsteadShutoff:true,
            }
        }                  //  ---- what is that guy?
    }

before u fix it run the config checker

cd ~/magicMirror
npm run config:check

so u can learn how to fix them

uros76

For those unsuccessfully trying to put the monitor to sleep and wake up with PIR, are you running MM on pi4 with Rapsberian?
I never managed to get this combination to work. Instead I did succeed with Lubuntu on pi4.

Currently I have working PIR on pi3 with Rapsberian. No issue with this one.
Just the pi4 is so different and worse to configure sleep/wakeup.

BKeyport

Honestly, I would resort to an out-of-MagicMirror experience. I whipped up some python code using GPIOZero to replace MMM-Buttons, for instance…