Abandoned, obsole. Macrule commented Apr 13, 2013. As the Raspberry PI has no proper standby mode from which it can be woken up again, it's so far impossible to turn off the attached display automatically. This change set allows the PI's video output to be powered down, and back on again (works for HDMI and SDTV). Raspberry Pi Resources Our resources for other geeks, designers and engineers. Raspberry Pi Projects. Sleep / Command Line / Sleep. Can be useful when chainging commands together in scripts etc: sleep 5 Will ause a pause of 5 second USEFUL? We benefit hugely from resources on the web so we decided we should try and give back some of.
I am working on a project similar to the one at http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Wall-Mounted-Google-Calendar/?ALLSTEPS
Similarly, I need my pi to stay on constantly. I have the regular Raspbian OS installed and I am using Iceweasel browser to run a web application all day.
I have tried every single one of these suggestions from this link http://www.bitpi.co/2015/02/14/prevent-raspberry-pi-from-sleeping/
Yet the pi fails to stay on longer than 10 minutes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Javed AliJaved Ali
4 Answers
After reinstalling the OS completely.
I installed xscreensaver
Once installed, go to Rpi's desktop 'Menu' (left top corner)
Go to preference ---> screensaver.
You will see a screen saver main menu. In mode : section, select 'disable screensaver' and close.
Reboot Rpi. It should work now.
Javed AliJaved Ali
You don't need to install lib, just edit lightdm
1 - Open lightdm using your prefer text editor, eg using default editor(nano).:
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
2 - Add this line
xserver-command=X -s 0 dpms
Paulo VictorPaulo Victor
I've created a picture frame with a pi 3 and want to stop the screen going blank. I installed xscreensaver as in answer 22 and it's working a treat:
sudo apt-get install xscreensaver
After install, went to Rpi's desktop 'Menu' (left top corner)
Went to preference ---> screensaver.
Then In mode : section, selected 'disable screensaver' and closed.
Rebooted Rpi.
babylonbaddersbabylonbadders
Without installing anything, official Raspberry Pi doc:
On the ConsoleIf you are using the Raspberry Pi solely on the console (no desktop GUI), you need to set the console blanking. The current setting, in seconds, can be displayed using
cat /sys/module/kernel/parameters/consoleblank
Here, consoleblank is a kernel parameter. In order to be permanently set, it needs to be defined on the kernel command line.
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
Add
consoleblank=0
to turn screen blanking off completely, or edit it to set the number of seconds of inactivity before the console will blank. Note the kernel command line must be a single line of text.Ray FossRay Foss