Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Getting Loss of Signal fault on large monitor.
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@ankonaskiff17 many monitors cannot handle signal off.
I wrote my own screen off module which hides all the modules, not totally black. But decent.
U can turn off the Screensaver, but then its always on. The screensaveroff script in my scripts will disable the screensaver.
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What is causing that loss of signal to monitor? Right now monitor is showing loss of signal yet I am accessing Pi via VNC and it shows as if signal being sent to monitor.
In other things I’ve done, if HDMI disconnected you can’t see the Pi.
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@ankonaskiff17 do you use PIR? or have screen saver turned on?
one of my old tvs would display that no signal panel after 10 minutes with the screen blanked by the screensaver
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I just went through the TV settings and turned off several settings but it still turns off. I did make some forward progress in that now I can hit ALT on keyboard and MM image turns back on.
The thing is, I think it is more related to signal flow on HDMI cable to TV. The other MM display I have has a live YouTube stream in iFrame so constant flow of data to monitor. It never cuts off. If I shutdown the MM software such that the Pi OS desktop is only thing on, then that monitor will go black too but click of mouse brings it back. -
@ankonaskiff17 ok, that means Screensaver is still active.
Use the screensaveroff script from my scripts site
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I’ll do that here shortly, if needed, after I run a test.
There is a screen blanking setting in the Pi’s preferences (I didn’t know about) that I just disabled and I’m checking monitor periodically. Looks like that is going to do the trick so far. -
Turning off screen blanking appears to have resolved that issue.
