I cannot disable screen blanking with MagicMirrorOS

sdetweil

@smegbadger if you stop mmos does the screen still turn off overnight?

smegbadger

@sdetweil I stopped docker at 9:30 last night with docker compose down leaving the screen at the magicmirror login prompt. This morning the screen was still showing the login prompt . MM was reinstated perfectly with docker compose up -d --force-recreate. @karsten13 I notice there are now four objects that start:

[+] Running 4/4
 ✔ Network magicmirror_default  Created                                                                            0.1s
 ✔ Container mm                 Started                                                                            0.9s
 ✔ Container init               Started                                                                            1.0s
 ✔ Container labwc              Started                                                                            1.0s

Steve

karsten13

@smegbadger

the 4 objects are o.k., one network and 3 containers (init is only for setting correct permissions in the mount folders, it runs for a very short time, you can disable it in the .env file if wanted).

Question: When the failed to connect to display occurs, how do you get the screen back working? Is a docker rm -f labwc && docker compose up -d sufficient or a docker compose up -d --force-recreate? Or do you have do reboot? Or do you switch the monitor off and on?

Other idea is to implement a wlr-randr call every 30min. in the labwc container.

smegbadger

@karsten13 i have disabled the init container as suggested.

When the display fails I can get it back with docker rm -f labwc && docker compose up -d (docker compose up -d --force-recreate also works but docker compose up -d on it’s own doesn’t). I am running it today with the MMM-Universal-Pir module disabled as another test (although when sitting at a login prompt it never went off).

Note that the display fails after a few hours of no PIR trigger, it doesn’t have to be overnight.

Steve

karsten13

@smegbadger said in I cannot disable screen blanking with MagicMirrorOS:

I can get it back with docker rm -f labwc && docker compose up -d

so restarting only the labwc container solves the problem …

I will try to build a labwc container which executes wlr-randr e.g. every 30min. so we can see if this helps.

karsten13

@karsten13 said in I cannot disable screen blanking with MagicMirrorOS:

I will try to build a labwc container which executes wlr-randr e.g. every 30min. so we can see if this helps.

you can now test with a new labwc container which does the wlr-randr call every 15min. but I’m not sure this helps …

For testing change this line in the .env file

LABWC_IMAGE="karsten13/labwc:develop"

and then do a docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

smegbadger

@karsten13 unfortunately that change did not prevent the display from dropping. There’s no time timestamp in the docker logs for labwc but when i looked this morning there were some 40 calls to wlr-randr that had failed. If they are every 15mins that’s about 10:00 it failed. I will make a more accurate observation tonight

karsten13

@smegbadger

unfortunately that change did not prevent the display from dropping

I expected this already …

can you post the exact error message of wlr-randr when it fails?

Other point: What happens if you disable MMM-Universal-Pir for a test? Are you still getting the errors or does mm runs correctly over night?

karsten13

for testing I added wlopm to the current mm-develop docker image.

So for another test use this lines in the .env file

MM_IMAGE="karsten13/magicmirror:develop"
LABWC_IMAGE="karsten13/labwc:develop"

Then change the on/off commands in the config.js

                        module: "MMM-Universal-Pir",
                        position: "top_right",
                        config: {
                                onCommand: "wlopm --on HDMI-A-1",
                                offCommand: "wlopm --off HDMI-A-1",
                        }

and then do a docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

smegbadger

@karsten13 I left it running overnight with the MMM-Universal-Pir config lines commented out and the monitor physically switched off and this morning MM was still working fine when I switched the monitor back on again. When I looked at docker logs labwc the wlr-randr command was failing (still being triggered every fifteen mins) which suggests the connection between the MMM-Universal-Pir and the display driver is the issue rather than the display actually going off. I will try your new build today although i will have to add --transform 90 to the onCommand to get my screen rotation.

magicm@magicmirror:/opt/mm/mounts/config $ docker logs labwc
HDMI-A-1 "Raspberry PI RPI MON156 81005568472 (HDMI-A-1)"
  Make: Raspberry PI
  Model: RPI MON156
  Serial: 81005568472
  Physical size: 350x190 mm
  Enabled: yes
  Modes:
    1920x1080 px, 60.000000 Hz (preferred, current)
    1920x1080 px, 60.000000 Hz
    1920x1080 px, 59.939999 Hz
    1920x1080 px, 50.000000 Hz
    1920x1080 px, 48.000000 Hz
    1920x1080 px, 47.952000 Hz
    1280x720 px, 60.000000 Hz
    1280x720 px, 60.000000 Hz
    1280x720 px, 59.939999 Hz
    1280x720 px, 50.000000 Hz
    1280x720 px, 48.000000 Hz
    1280x720 px, 47.952000 Hz
    720x576 px, 50.000000 Hz
    720x480 px, 60.000000 Hz
    720x480 px, 59.939999 Hz
    640x480 px, 60.000000 Hz
    640x480 px, 59.939999 Hz
    640x480 px, 59.939999 Hz
  Position: 0,0
  Transform: 90
  Scale: 1.000000
  Adaptive Sync: disabled
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magicm@magicmirror:/opt/mm/mounts/config $ docker exec -it labwc bash
pi@c7c64f70849e:/$ wlr-randr
failed to connect to display
pi@c7c64f70849e:/$

Steve