Auto power on and off

natebrown

@garbleflux
Thanks, so i want it to turn on at 6:30 every morning and turn off at 9 every night, If i copy and paste that into crontab -e, will that work? What is the exact code i need?

hamid

I did not test with there are motion detectors that turn on the screen when moving the front screen does not know how it works

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TJuTZu

You can use also MMM-ModuleScheduler with MMM-Remote-Control to turn monitor on/off if you don’t need to turn off the whole system.

It works similar to crontab

Here is example from my mirror configuration

   {
      module: 'MMM-Remote-Control'
      // uncomment the following line to show the URL of the remote control on the mirror
      // , position: 'bottom_left'
      // you can hide this module afterwards from the remote control itself
    },

   {
        module: 'MMM-ModuleScheduler',
        config: {
            notification_schedule: [
                // TURN THE MONITOR/SCREEN ON At 10:00
                {notification: 'REMOTE_ACTION', schedule: '00 10 * * *', payload: {action: "MONITORON"}},
                // TURN THE MONITOR/SCREEN OFF At 00:00 
                {notification: 'REMOTE_ACTION', schedule: '00 00 * * *', payload: {action: "MONITOROFF"}}
            ]
        }
   }

BKeyport

If you wanna go down that path, there’s MMM-Remote-Control, too.

rejas

@hamid you can use a standard webcam (like the pi cam or a playstation camera like I do) and my module https://github.com/rejas/MMM-MotionDetector to detect motion and turn your monitor off and on.

Socrates

@bkeyport said in Auto power on and off:

If you wanna go down that path, there’s MMM-Remote-Control, too.

I was looking at the option of turning off the monitor instead the rpi.
I have the MMM-Remote-Control installed, but i dont see a way to turn off the monitor automatically, there’s an option to turn on and off the monitor and it works well, but how do i automate it?

sdetweil

@socrates I use a webcam and turn off the monitor, motion turns it back on.
some use IR (PIR) sensors to detect people heat and turn on…

Socrates

@sdetweil Thank you. I have Home Assistant in place, the only gripe is that I wont have enough space between the mm frame and the outlet to shove another smart outlet. I guess i will need to replace the single gang smart outlet.