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    Monitor goes to sleep within minutes

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      Newbie007
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      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
      

      Config

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        sdetweil @Newbie007
        last edited by

        @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

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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          Newbie007 @sdetweil
          last edited by

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

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            Newbie007
            last edited by

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

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              sdetweil @Newbie007
              last edited by

              @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

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                Newbie007
                last edited by

                @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

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                  sdetweil @Newbie007
                  last edited by

                  @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
                  

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                    Newbie007
                    last edited by

                    This is what I got

                    lxsession screen saver already disabled
                    
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                      sdetweil @Newbie007
                      last edited by

                      @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…

                      Sam

                      How to add modules

                      learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                        Newbie007
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                        @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?

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