Power management

[alexanderre]

Hello guys, I have an HDMI monitor attached to my Rpi3 and what I need to do is so the monitor would go to stand by mode after 5 minutes of me not using Pi and at the same time so it'd stay on regardless of power saving settings while I'am watching any videos say at least via omxplayer (TBOPlayer) or vlc.

For now I'm trying to set it using Screesaver app (xscreensaver) and it would either turn off even on watching vids or won't at all. Also if I set the screensaver mode to just show a blank screen and check "Quick Power-off in blank only mode" option it won't turn off totally and still be showing a powered on lightened up black screen which drives me insane at night

Any ideas on achieving this seemingly simple trick?

[DougieLawson]

https://www.screenly.io/blog/2017/07/02 ... pberry-pi/

[alexanderre]

thanks, yes, but it doesn't help me with switching off after an interval of being idle, though I know I can just set a crontab job, but that's totally not what I'am after

[alexanderre]

And just in case I didn't make it clear - I use RPi 3 as a desktop computer and therefore need display power management done usual way for desktops - you don't touch it for 5 minutes - it goes standby, you press a key or touch a mouse - it wakes up

[ghans]

Take a backup and AFTER that, enable the new experimental 3D driver via raspi-config.
So far i know it includes some changes which might enable powersave signaling on HDMI.

ghans

[alexanderre]

If you mean Open GL - I have it enabled, nothing has changed much with the way display works