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    {HowTo} turn on/off your monitor (Time based, PIR/Button, App)

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        thoeng
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        @cruunnerr

        I have the strangest problem i have not been able to solve for days now.

        I am using 2.2 external pir.py script and it works flawlessly to display blank screen.

        However, if screen orientation set to vertical via /boot/config.txt with either display_rotate=1 or 3, the monitor wont blank out !! :dizzy_face:

        Its just blink for 1 second and nothing happen.

        What I have tried:

        1. check monitor status via xset -q (dpms) - it says monitor off but the TV stays on
        2. run xset dpms force off - again the TV only blink for 1 second nothing else happen
        3. Changed GL driver from raspi-config and reboot
        4. Tried with other TV (both are LG brand 42" and 65")

        Both tvservice -p and vcgencmd display_power 0 will work with any screen orientation but unfortunately it will display “no signal” on the TV.

        Can anybody please help me out? This is really frustrating :dizzy_face: :dizzy_face:

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          tinsebayacc
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          Hi, i have followed the steps in 2.2, it works fine. The issue i have is i don’t want the screen turning off because of my silly lg tv screen saver which i cant disable. So i followed the steps for this in section 6. I created two new screen.sh files, made them executable and changed the relevant bits in the pir.py script. Now nothing happens. i have tried and checked again and again but nothing happens. I am fairly new to all of this and have probably missed something i just dont know what. Please could someone help me with this. Thank you very much

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            Asphyth
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            Hi, ! thanks for this GREEATTTTT TUTORIAL !

            Working great with python,

            About that, when my screen is turning down he shows “No signal” before turning black, any solution to hide this ?

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              pugsly @Asphyth
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              @Asphyth That is your monitor, its not coming from the Pi.

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                sdetweil @Asphyth
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                @Asphyth that is the energy star power down requirement. it warns you of no signal, and then is required to turn the display off electrically to save power

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                  pascal006
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                  hi!!
                  for this point the … always running i dont have LED to make a test . So my question is do i did a mistake someware ?

                  You can check if your button works by simply typing python pir.py. Every time u move through the PIR or press the button it will show you several …
                  End the test with “ctrl+c”

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                    Peter Leemon
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                    Hi all have followed step 2.1 got my tv to turn off and back on ok but doesn’t stay on for long at all (only a few seconds)?

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                        @FREIGHTTRAIN Can you elaborate more precisely, what is not working? What have you done? What is the expected behaviour? How does it behave? How to reproduce? That might help in helping you.

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