@evroom
Thanks ever so much. I googled and found something that worked. Now everything is running as it should. Still have problems with VNC, but I installed TeamViewer, but I’m going to give ssh a shot soon. Thank you again

@evroom I’m stuck :(
I tried the code above, and it works, the screen doesn’t turn off, but now I can’t see the desktop, it’s black when I minimize the MM-window, and I can’t connect to my MM via VNC which I could before and that’s how I changed in the first place.

@evroom said in My MagicMirror screen keeps turning off:

@evroom

This works (running for 100 minutes at the moment of posting):

$ sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
@touch /home/pi/.started_etc_xdg_lxsession_LXDE-pi_autostart
@point-rpi
@xset -dpms
@xset s off
@xset s noblank

I tried the code above, and it works on stretch, I screen doesn’t turn off. But my cronjob acts funny. Last night when I look at it after it was supposed to be turned off, the backlight was on but everything else was dark. Don’t really know whats going on, but I’ll take a new look tonight.

@evroom said in My MagicMirror screen keeps turning off:

sleep after 10 minutes.
Perhaps because it isn’t a HDMI connected monitor.
I found 2 interesting files though:

Wow, that’s a lot to take in. Thank you so much for your help, I’m going to try this during the week.

@evroom
Sorry, but Debian buster and Debian stretch?

I have a cronjob to turn off the screen at 11 pm until 6 am, which works, but other than that I want the screen to be on. Is it possible to change 900 to 61 200 (17 h) instead?

@evroom
I edited the autostart which was stated in the MagicMirror guide

sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

@sdetweil It’s the official RPi 7" screen, and what I can see no power off/sleep function

Hi,

My MM screen keeps turning off every 120 minutes. I have turn off screen saver and I have followed the instructions and installed x11-xserver, but it doesn’t seem to work, and I’m too novice to know how to correct it.

@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank

Thank you for your help