Pulling this out to a separate question from an old thread:
I recently setup a Pi3 using PMP Embedded version and the official 7" Raspberry Pi touchscreen in a very nice bamboo frame/case kit from Eleduino (available on Amazon). It was brilliantly easy to setup, particularly because the frame can be oriented so you don’t have to reconfigure the Pi3 OS to rotate the screen…
My question, however, is backlight control in PMP.
I have found, and tested, the internal OS commands that will manually turn off and on the backlight (or dim the backlight), but I have been having some frustration with implementing a simple backlight sleep function that would turn off the backlight after 10 or 15 minutes, but re-activate the backlight on a touch.
There are some phython scripts I have seen that do some of this, but I am concerned about sloppy programming and scripts that are constantly looping to test conditions in possibly not such an efficient manner.
So, has anyone been able to find a simple way to use PMP screen saver function to eventually save the backlight, and then handle the touch or remote requests to turn it back on?
Thanks in advance.
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PS. I am using this player as primarily an audio player in our living space, designed to be kid, wife and guest friendly. My Plex server is iMac Mini with my content running on a local NAS.
