I cannot disable screen blanking with MagicMirrorOS

karsten13

@sdetweil

the setup is “Raspberry Pi OS Lite” with the normal docker setup and an additional labwc container

@smegbadger

I have no idea what is happening. Sounds like the monitor totally cuts the connection to the pi after a while.

Maybe this post contains something helpful.

What is your wlr-randr command for waking up?

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