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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    Using a TV as a monitor

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    • msimon360M
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      I know this information can be found in other hardware sites but I thought it might be helpful to have it here. I am using a Sanyo TV as the monitor for my Magic Mirror. I setup a cron to turn off the HDMI output of my Raspberry Pi nightly but when I turned it on in the morning the TV had gone into Standby and would not wake. I found that CEC needed to be turned on in the TV Settings. Then I could use CEC to wake the TV.

      Here are my crontab entries for Debian 13.6 (Trixie).

      # Turn monitor output on in the morning
      0 5 * * * env WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --on '*'
      # Wake the TV
      5 5 * * * echo "on 0" | /usr/bin/cec-client -s -d 1
      # Start Magic Mirror
      10 5 * * * /home/marksimon/bin/mm start
      #####
      # Stop Magic Mirror in the Evening
      0 20 * * * /home/marksimon/bin/mm stop
      # Turn monitor output off in the morning
      5 20 * * * env WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --off '*'
      # Sleep the TV
      10 20 * * * echo "off 0" | /usr/bin/cec-client -s -d 1
      
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