<![CDATA[Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error?]]>Hello @ all,

unfortunately I don´t know how to describe my problem excactly and therefore I don´t know if its in the right corner of the forum.

After I start my Pi (connected via HDMI to the screen) it works fine. The MagicMirror starts automatically after a few seconds on the destop.
After 10 to 15 minutes the screen turns black but is still on (the notebook screen shines on the backside completly white).
If I connect a mouse and/or a keyboard to the pi and press any key nothing happend, so it seems not to be a screensaver issue?!
On the screen menu I switched the screen sleep mode to off so it can´t be this issue as well?!

Is there an sleep mode on the pi or included in the MagicMirror code?
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Killing Joke aka Daniel

P.S.: Whenever I switch the screen off and on again it´s still black.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/8475/screen-shines-black-don-t-know-if-it-s-an-pi-or-screen-errorRSS for NodeWed, 22 Jul 2026 17:49:55 GMTThu, 26 Jul 2018 12:42:33 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Sat, 28 Jul 2018 09:23:52 GMT]]>That was the strange thing. Nothing happend after I connected a keyboard or a mouse to it and pressed any key or wiggled the mouse.
I´ll try to install the XScreenSaver and give feedback afterwards.

Thanks for your help @all!!

P.S.: After half an hour it seems to work. Final check tomorrow, Cheers.

P.P.S.: After a night the screen is still on. Thanks for your help. The problem was solved by installing the XScreenSaver and put the pi in “no screen saver mode”.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42710https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42710Sat, 28 Jul 2018 09:23:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:50:54 GMT]]>@killing-joke - When the screen does its fade-to-black thing, what happens if you hook up a mouse or keyboard to the pi and wiggle it? Does everything come back?

In my experience, the best way to keep the screen from going black is to install XScreenSaver and set it to never run a screensaver.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42701https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42701Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:50:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:39:32 GMT]]>After I edit the code as you described above, the screen shows “no signal” after 10 to 15 minutes.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42680https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42680Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:39:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:18:45 GMT]]>@killing-joke said in Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error?:

On the screen the the screensaver is deactivated.

Is there an option on the pi?

what you can still try

open

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

and add

# uncomment to put the monitor into power saving mode (DPMS)
hdmi_blanking=1
]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42679https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42679Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:18:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:56:21 GMT]]>On the screen the the screensaver is deactivated.

Is there an option on the pi?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42678https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42678Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:56:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:38:14 GMT]]>@killing-joke
check if the screensaver is deactivated

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42677https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42677Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:38:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:01:58 GMT]]>0_1532620892550_forum2.png

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42675https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42675Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:01:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:55:00 GMT]]>and wat does the consel put out?? ( wher you type npm start )

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42674https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42674Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:55:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:07:19 GMT]]>It worked with

pm2 stop MagicMirror

after

npm start dev

there are some errors… but they appeared after I connected via remote desktop
(see picture)!
0_1532617380576_forum.png

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42673https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42673Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:07:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:25:57 GMT]]>@killing-joke try pm2 stop mm or pm2 stop mm.sh

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42670https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42670Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:25:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:24:37 GMT]]>When I go to the MM folder and type

npm stop

I got an errors:

npm ERR! missing script: stop

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
nom ERR!            /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2018-07-26T14_14_20_020Z-debug.log

but I can´t open the folder because there is no folder like this.
So I can´t stop it?!

I can´t stop the npm aswell via remote desktop from Windows...

I´m confused
]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42669https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42669Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:24:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:59:26 GMT]]>@jcklerk only is jou didnt see ennything on the screan if you start up the magicmirror
like so https://gyazo.com/88b59086d8b394e8cdf94dd3faa1b014

and this is the screan when the dev is tunt on…
https://gyazo.com/d2492aa8a2988b37a353e49b72aee5d9

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42668https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42668Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:59:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Screen shines black / Don´t know if it´s an Pi or Screen-Error? on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:56:15 GMT]]>stop the auto run and goo to the magicmirror folder in the command line and type npm start dev

chek if ther are errors… bicase then the application is blank and your monitor is going in sleep…

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42667https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/42667Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:56:15 GMT