Stop the screensaver!

[rcollie]

I realize how (super) old this topic is, but for anyone who stumbles across it and still dealing with this, xscreensaver really is the easiest solution.

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver

Just change the screen saver in there to no screen saver, and you’re sorted.

[PaulB]

Hey guys,

there is another option on disabling the screensaver, which worked perfectly for me.
Just disable the screensaver in the option menu of debian.

Hope this helps someone :)

[BlackTalon]

Revived again. I have xscreensaver installed and the screensaver disabled. It still blanks the screen after a day.

[Chris]

Hello,

After a total reinstall of the recent raspberry to integrate Google Assist Pi, I also have the same problem.

After watching, I end up with an empty screen after about 6 hours. I am forced to restart MagicMirror via the MMM-Remote-Control module.
On the other hand I do not have xsceensaver of installed but the modification of the lines of command indicated in the wiki of installation of MM

I did not experience this problem before. The only difference between my two installations is the 2.3.1 update of MagicMirror.
Would it affect?

Regards,

[Gabev]

I had the same problem where. I stumbled across this thread, check out the answer given by JimmyN… it helped me at least.

[m0111k]

@cowboysdude tried that, screen still went standby… any clue for fix?
ps im newb here, how can i remove xscreensaver when it doesnt work? Thanks

[Mykle1]

@m0111k said in Stop the screensaver!:

ps im newb here, how can i remove xscreensaver when it doesnt work? Thanks

sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver

However, I don’t think xscreensaver is capable of putting your display into standby. That is likely your system or settings.

[Anthony]

@Mykle1
Is there any possibillity that Lucy interacts somehow with the screen saver? I am asking this because I have installed xscreensaver and working good but if I have lucy enabled I get the black screen and I must move the mouse to sho the MM again. Just a thought!

[Mykle1]

@Anthony

Perhaps, but I’ve never seen this behavior or heard about it before this. I will see if I can reproduce that here.

[Mykle1]

@Anthony

I’m not seeing this behavior at all. You can clearly see that I have xscreensaver running with the “Screen Saver DIsabled” but I can’t reproduce what it happening to you. Lucy responds normally and no black screen issue. If you say “SHOW MODULES” does Lucy show them?


Edit: Something seems to be amiss. The forum isn’t allowing me to post an image at the moment.

Picture below.

[Mykle1]

[Anthony]

@Mykle1
Thank you for your reply. I haven’t try to see if Lucy works when I see the black screen because I can’t see the “Say, ‘Hello Lucy’” message and because of the latency problems I have I don’t know when it recognizes the keyword and wait for commands. My guess is that it will work but when I am finished with my mirrorsetup I will hung it on the wall so I won’t have mouse and keyboard connected to move or press a button for the mirror to show. Also the black screen appears not only in the standby mode. Last night I left the mirror showing my page 1 modules and in the morning I saw the black screen again. Moved the mouse and evertything showed up.

[sdetweil]

@Anthony said in Stop the screensaver!:

Moved the mouse and evertything showed up.

that means screensaver kicked in… MM doesn’t do module visibility by mouse movement…

[Anthony]

@sdetweil
I agree. But it doesn’t happen when I have voice disabled in my config. And I realized that it also doesn’t happen with voice enabled and MMM-ImageSlideShow showing my pics. Maybe because the pictures change every 10 seconds. But if I have voice enabled and MM shows only clock, calendar, weather etc after 30 minutes screen goes black.

[sdetweil]

@Anthony and if MM is not running at all, what happens?

I run voice, and imageslideshow and don’t see this. If I shut down MM, screen will stay in forever

[Anthony]

@sdetweil
Mine too. If MM is shut down my screen is always on. This also happen if modules with movement are shown in the MM like MMM-ImageSlideShow which have pictures rotating. My screen goes black only when I have modules like clock,calendar,forunecookie,rfacs etc shown. I don’t know if a specific module cause this. For example I now have my MM on for 5 days without black screen and the modules shown are clock, calendar, stats, compliments, news, pictures and weather. If I hide pictures module or replace it with rfacts for example in about half an hour I will get the screensaver black screen.

[Anthony]

Update.
Last 3-4 days my MM was running just fine without screensaver appears. Last night it happened again so I restart MM in dev mode to see if I find an error after the the screensaver’s black screen. When I moved the mouse (after some time the screensaver had appeared) the screen was white and in dev console I had a message saying websocket disconnected or something like that. Usually when I moved the mouse after the screensaver and without the dev tools enabled the black screen dissapears and I get my MM screen back. This time was different. I’ll try to upload a screenshot when I get home.

[sdetweil]

usually when u see that the MM runtime has crashed for some reason… even the debug console is gone

I haven’t found a way to debug what has happened… I see this occasionally…

[Anthony]

This is getting too weird. Yesterday I had the MM running in dev mode and after I saw the screensaver I moved the mouse and everything came back as normal and no errors in the console. I don’t know why this happens not all the time and with different characteristics everytime.

[sdetweil]

@Anthony when the screen went to sleep was the developer window hidden too?

when my MMM-SleepWake hides all the modules, the Developers console is still on the screen