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And it does "blank" the display but the "backlight" is still on. Is there any way to actually turn it off currently, without turning off the whole thing?

Should I consider that the lack of any answer here, means that the backlight cannot be turned off? If I make an external circuit to cut the USB input power while it is still connected to a running Pi, will that hurt anything? What would I need to do to reinitialize after powering it back up?

jbeale wrote:Should I consider that the lack of any answer here, means that the backlight cannot be turned off? If I make an external circuit to cut the USB input power while it is still connected to a running Pi, will that hurt anything? What would I need to do to reinitialize after powering it back up?

Thanks Dom, that"s some useful info... so I gather the I2C register setup for the LCD display is inside some function that is not in any way accessible from userspace (apart from doing a reboot)?

The PWM controls and the power on/off controls are hidden away in a little Atmel which has to be controlled from the GPU side (it has to be this way because we share that I2C bus with the camera). Currently there is an "in-memory" communication scheme between the GPU and the ARM for the touchscreen but I"ve not yet implemented the controls for the PWM and power

My interest is in minimizing power draw when the display is not in active use. So if I can turn the backlight PWM down to 0 and then the current draw for everything else is relatively small compared with the Pi itself, that"s fine. If I need to save more power than that, I"d have to shutdown the Pi anyway and do a normal reboot to get it working again.

I want to use the device as a home automation controller, and having it on all of the time takes too much power and will shorten the life of the display.

I too am looking for the same functionality. I would like to turn on the display with a PIR motion sensor and then have it time out after a certain amount of time with no activity. ( home automation system as well ) ...

I must be missing something really obvious. Is there not a way to automatically disable the backlight after a fixed period of time. The screen turns black after a certain period. I would like the backlight to turn off too.

As @dataworm suggested use "sudo rpi-update" to update the firmware. Normally you avoid that command, since it could cause problems, but you"ll need to do it for the display backlight function. After running "rpi-update" you will see all the backlight folders have been added and you can then change the value in "bl_power".

I am working on the raspberry pi3 wrote the following code under sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart 00 12 **** /usr/bin/vgencmd display_power 0 I know in terminal display_power 0 turns off the hdmi and the monitor then just needs to be turned off manually. Am I entering this code correctly so the display turns off at a certain time in this case it is set for noon. Any comments or suggestions is appreciated.

A common question we came across when building Screenly is how to manage the display’s power. When we first started out, we thought that this topic would be a trivial matter. It turned out to be anything but trivial.

Of course, different monitors behave very differently. What we discovered was that while most monitors would turn off just fine, many monitors ended up either not waking up at all or, alternatively, waking up in the wrong resolution.

This is why we still do not officially support turning monitors on or off with Screenly’s paid version. If you are running Screenly Open Source Edition (OSE) however, you are free to experiment with what works with your screen.

Let’s dive into how you can do power management on your display in Screenly OSE. The three tools that are relevant for this task are vcgencmd, tvservice and cec-client.

If you are lucky, your monitor will work well with vcgencmd. All this method does is toggle the power status of the HDMI port. This method will usually turn off the monitor, as most monitors will automatically go down in sleep mode if the HDMI signal is turned off.

However, beware that some monitors will switch to the another input when they wake up. Hence, if you have another active input, chances are the monitor will switch to that new input instead of turning off.

If your monitor turned off and on again with these commands, then congratulations. You can skip to “Automating the power management”. If not, carry on.

Another alternative is to use tvservice. Please note however that this tool often works for turning off the screen, but struggles with getting the monitor back into the right resolution.

Once you have figured out how to turn your monitor off and on, it is time to automate the process. The easiest way to do this is to use a cronjob to schedule this. (If you are not familiar with cronjobs, you can find a quick tutorial here. Use Cronjob wizard to generate a cronjob.)

For instance, if we want to turn off our monitor using vcgencmd at 8PM and turn it back on at 7AM on weekdays, we would create two cronjobs like this:

. The hardware works fine, but....THERE IS NO SETUP INFORMATION WHATSOEVER! Inside the box is a large sheet of paper with "safety" information in every language known to man, but ZERO information on how to connect this thing to a Pi board! Connecting the ribbon cable is pretty much self-explanatory, but the minor detail of how to provide power to the device is nowhere to be found. You have the manufacturer"s website printed on the box but that"s the top level URL. After searching and drilling down several layers you can find setup information where you are told that you can use two of the provided jumper wires to pull power from the Pi board.

The next minor detail is that if you use the housing linked above like I did to make a nice compact package, you find that the display is rotated 180°. The case"s feet and holes for wall mounting won"t work with the native Raspbian configuration. It"s not a simple matter of rotating the display in the housing as housing is made for a specific orientation. There is a workaround, but you have to spend some time searching for it.

Finally, I was hoping for a compact unit that I could run without having a keyboard or my monitor/TV connected to it all the time. Apparently, with this display connected, the Pi"s HDMI port is disabled. So...I guess I"ll be putting this display back in its box (which thankfully I did not trash) and putting the Pi back in the small box that came with the kit. In the future, I might buy another Pi kit if I want to do something else.

When you first set up a Raspberry Pi, it’s very scary for the screen to suddenly just go black. Don’t worry, there’s no need to be alarmed. This black screen can cause some necessary anxiety, especially during software updates and other long processes. Fortunately, there are several methods to prevent this, which I will share in this article.

Raspberry Pi doesn’t have a sleep mode, but it does utilize screen blanking which is very similar. To quickly disable screen blanking, use the raspi-config utility through the terminal and turn it off in the Display Options section.

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Strictly speaking, the Raspberry Pi does not have a sleep mode as we would see on a desktop or laptop computer. The hardware is either on or off, but it does not go into a power save or sleep mode as you would see on a more complete system.

The feature is available on a fresh installation of Raspberry Pi OS, but it’s turned off by default. We call this a DPMS (Display Power Management System).

Hibernate is where we get into trouble because the Raspberry Pi doesn’t understand how to hibernate. Hibernation is transferring the contents of memory to disk and putting the computer into a very low-power state, which the Pi simply doesn’t support.

It can be difficult to recover from in certain circumstances because Pi doesn’t know how to deal with anything other than on or off. DPMS is best left off for our purposes. That’s why the Raspberry Pi Foundation enables screen blanking, but not the DPMS feature.

Screen blanking will take the image off your screen and replace it with a completely black screen, but the power is still supplied to the HDMI port. This is what you are encountering when you first set up a Raspberry Pi system, and it can be very annoying.

In recent versions of the operating system, raspi-config for the command line, and the Raspberry Pi Configuration utility used in the desktop environment have both added a switch to turn off the screen blanking.

Another way to control screen blanking is by using a good old-fashioned screen saver. When monitors had cathode ray tubes, these were essential to prevent damaging your screen from having the same image displayed all day.

The idea is that rather than having a screen display that doesn’t change, you introduce some motion or color-changing effects onto the screen when the user was not busy with the computer. This helped save CRT displays from “burn in” where the constantly displayed image became more or less permanent on display after hours.

Today, with LCD and LED monitors, screen savers aren’t really necessary, but they can be fun when your system is idle. There is an excellent screensaver available that works just fine on the Pi called xscreensaver. You can install it from the terminal with the command:

If you are not familiar with the installation of new applications on Raspberry Pi, you can click on that link to read my step-by-step tutorial on the topic.

However, if you select one that is listed in black, it will be installed and you’ll get a sample on the right. Down below, you can set how long you’d like the display to be idle before the screensaver appears, and also if you’d like the screen to lock with a password after a certain number of minutes.

One of the modes above is to choose a random screensaver, and if you choose that, the Cycle After setting will control how long each one is on the screen before it randomly chooses another one. It can be fun to see old favorites now and then, especially if you have been around long enough to have had one on a CRT display.

So, there you have several options for keeping the display alive while you’re working on things. It is usually one of the first things I do when setting up a new Raspberry Pi OS drive so that I don’t lose the display while doing updates or other installations.

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The 7” Touchscreen Monitor for Raspberry Pi gives users the ability to create all-in-one, integrated projects such as tablets, infotainment systems and embedded projects.

The 800 x 480 display connects via an adapter board which handles power and signal conversion. Only two connections to the Pi are required; power from the Pi’s GPIO port and a ribbon cable that connects to the DSI port present on all Raspberry Pi’s. Touchscreen drivers with support for 10-finger touch and an on-screen keyboard will be integrated into the latest Raspberry Pi OS for full functionality without a physical keyboard or mouse.

Make your own ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) devices including a visual display. Simply connect your Raspberry Pi, develop a Python script to interact with the display, and you’re ready to create your own home automation devices with touch screen capability.

A range of educational software and programs available on the Raspberry Pi will be touch enabled, making learning and programming easier on the Raspberry Pi.

Update:As of October 2015 the touchscreen is now supported on the Model B and A Raspberry Pi in Raspbian. You"ll just need to add jumpers from SDA1 and SCL1 on the Pi to SDA and SCL on the display board and to add "ignore_lcd=0" to /boot/config.txt to be up and running!

The STAY_ON_WHILE_PLUGGED_IN setting is set to BATTERY_PLUGGED_AC by default. You can programmatically change this value in your application code with the Settings API:

The Raspberry PI has two UARTs, and ttyAMA0 refers to one of them. However, the primary UART differs based on the Raspberry Pi model (namely based on if the model comes with built-in Bluetooth and WiFi). serial0 can be used to reference the primary one for the current model.

Don’t add the logo.nologo option. Again, this is unrelated to the LCD, so if you want to keep the default behavior, there’s no need to remove the logo.

This is a 5" Raspberry Pi LCD touchscreen with 800*480 resolution and 108×64.8mm display area. The product supports Raspberry Pi DSI display interface and comes with a capacitive touch panel on its screen and supports 5 touch points.

The special holes design on the back of the screen is convenient to directly install the Raspberry Pi in the product. There is no need to provide external power for the touchscreen as the Raspberry Pi power supply is adopted. In addition, the screen supports hardware backlight adjustment. The function can be realized by turning the potentiometer on the back of the display.

6) Power on the Raspberry Pi and wait for a few seconds until the LCD displays normally. And the touch function can also work after the system starts.

Note: If you use the 2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-armhf image or the laster version, please add the line dtoverlay=rpi-backlight to the config.txt file and reboot.

The resolution of the LCD display is 800 x 480, you can configure the resolution via software, and the maximum resolution it supports is 1920 x 1080. It is a USB capacitive touch screen and does not require a driver. It supports five touch control, besides that, the LCD screen comes with an OSD menu adjustment function. You can adjust the contrast, brightness, and switch button. There are 9 interfaces on the back of the screen, one earphone for audio output; two touches (USB connector), for power supply and touch output; one display, an HDMI interface, for connecting the motherboard and LCD display. One power, it can control the backlight to turn on and turn off to save power. One return, it’s only useful in the OSD menu. One right/down, backlight shortcut key. One left/up, backlight shortcut key. A menu, it’s useful in the OSD setting menu, open the OSD/ select key.

*When working with Raspberry Pi 4, for the system image of Raspberry Pi after 2021-10-30, for example on Bullseye, please modify "dtoverlay = vc4-kms-v3d" to "dtoverlay = vc4-fkms-v3d" in the config file, otherwise it may fail to start. But on Buster, please comment out "dtoverlay = vc4-fkms-V3D" by adding #.

The mini LCD screen display supports a resolution of 84*48. By programming in Python, the Raspberry Pi can control the screen to display the CPU and memory usage of your Raspberry Pi. Thus you can check the date easily.

The shield is equipped with a backlight switch, so you can see the contents displayed clear in the darkness, and also turn on/off the backlight anytime as you like. It works with Raspberry Pi Model B/B+, 2 Model B, and 3 Model B.

This LCD display supports Raspbian, Ubuntu MATE, Snappy Ubuntu Core, OSMC, and Windows 10 IOT Core and so on. Please download your system image from raspberry Pi official website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

The 5″ LCD display is an LCD display which connects to the Raspberry Pi through the DSI connector. It is capacitive touch LCD. It is a plug-and-play device which doesn’t need install driver. The physical resolution of this LCD display is 800*480.

The touch screen can be used as a mouse device. When we need to input text data to Raspberry Pi board, normally we have to connect a USB keyboard to Pi and this is really inconvenient.

LCD displays have an optimum viewing angle, and depending on how the screen is mounted it may be necessary to change the orientation of the display to give the best results. By default, the Raspberry Pi display and Raspberry Pi are set up to work best when viewed from slightly above, for example on a desktop. If viewing from below, you can physically rotate the display, and then tell the system software to compensate by running the screen upside down.