Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Screen turning off
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@N6NG ah, monitor
yes, u have an energy star compliant monitor.
when the input is turned off it MUST power off after 15 mins.unless the monitor supports the cec commands, there is no way to turn it back on programmaticly.
this is why I use a module that hides all the modules instead of turning off the HDMI port.
I even had a tv that powered off if it was display a blank screen. pain in the rear.
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@sdetweil And which module is that Sam?
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@N6NG I’m guessing it’s mm-Hide-All but can you tie that to the Pir sensor so it hides it with no motion?
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@N6NG my MMM-SleepWake
can be triggered by pir(some other module reading pir), or camera
I use camera, didn’t have PIR when I started this journey…
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@sdetweil Ok Sam… again thanks
Dennis -
@N6NG I have the MMM-SleepWake installed. I have the config.js installed. Now I have to tie it to the MMM-PIR-Sensor-Lite module.
I’ve got the 2lines in the config.js
But what is in place of the /external_motion start and end from the PIR module?on_event_start /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion started
on_event_end /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion ended -
@N6NG I also don’t understand how this would keep the Monitor from turning off after 15 minutes? I need to turn off the auto off somehow.
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@N6NG no need for external if you use pir
mode is hide( hides all modules or shows all modules.) doesn’t turn off monitor
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@N6NG the trick is to keep the monitor active enough to fool it into not triggering it’s eco feature.
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@BKeyport and how would you do that?
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@N6NG I get an error from the line that looks like this.
on_event_start /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion started
which is line 47 which shows this error.
[ERROR] Line 47 column 19: Parsing error: Unexpected token /
That’s the / in front of the home/pi/MagicMirror…
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@N6NG you are not using a camera, so u don’t need that
the PIR module should signal user_presence, true
and then sleep wake will show the modules ,user_presence, false, plus the timeout will hide the modules
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@sdetweil Thanks Sam… I’ll give it a try…
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