Wayland; Screen not turning off RPI 5 Bookworm

[1liminal1]

Hi guys,

I am trying to turn off a display for a Kiosk with a command

vc_gencmd_read_response does not work with Wayland

SO I tried WAYLAND_DISPLAY="wayland-1" wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --off

And I get this same issue where it just logs the user out.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2196846&hilit=wlr+randr#p2196846

When can we get a fix for this?

Thanks

[lurch]

I've just asked @spl237 about this, and he says that wlr-randr is the "wrong command" to be using to power screens off. He suggests setting a short DPMS time in .config/wayfire.ini instead, e.g.

[idle]
dpms_timeout = 10

will cause display to power-down after 10 seconds of inactivity.

[1liminal1]

Thanks so much for that, but I want a command to turn off the screen. I want to do it based on presence passed from Home Assistant.

Thanks

[lurch]

Any changes to .config/wayfire.ini get picked up immediately, so I guess you could write a script to change the value of dpms_timeout (or comment / uncomment it) ?

[1liminal1]

Thats interesting, how would I turn the screen back on though?

Thanks :)

[lurch]

I've just been testing on a Pi4 (running Wayfire) that I'm connected to over SSH - if I comment out the dpms_timeout value entirely, then the screen comes back on again 🙂

[1liminal1]

Awesome, So I have a script and MQTT all set up, just need to get home to test.

Thanks for the ideas, ill let you know how I go :)

[1liminal1]

No good :( It just logs me out whenever I add the dpms_timeout :(

Have you seen that?

[JamesH65]

Have you done a recent apt update? There was a recent fix for unexpected log outs that might be relevant.

[1liminal1]

Thanks guys, I ditched native Raspian and went with DakOS. Maybe one day then can get it working :)