Plexamp headless - Need help with screen blank (sleep) on rPi Os

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Hi I have attached a 5 inch touchscreen to my pi. I like the way headless works from my phone most the time but also want to just ‘look’ over at my streamer to see what’s playing. Also I want others to be able to skip tracks etc. I work in an art studio where I can’t always take out my phone because I have dirty hands

Screens on raspberry Pi Os go to sleep when no user input is detected. Because there is no user input while music is playing, the screen turns off.

I can easily disable screen blanking, but if it never goes to sleep I guess I’d get burn in if the music was paused for days or weeks.

I would like the screen to Wake/Sleep on music Play/Pause. This could be triggered either by sensing audio output or by sensing screen movement as there is a song progress bar.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

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Hi

Couple of things,

  • Screen time out - How to change display timeout - Raspberry Pi Forums

  • Plexamp on lite , would not have given you what you are after… you can tweak the Home page of plexamp on what you want to see. You can install plexamp on the full version of Raspbian and use that

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Thanks. Its not the timing of screen blanking that is the issue. its what initiates it. when playing plexamp there is no user input, so after x mins it blanks while music is still playing. I dont want that.

If I disable screen blanking, when you pause playback from my device, it might show the same screen for days and get screen burn in.

I’m wanting the screen to blank only when no music is playing. This could be triggered by sensing audio or screen movement. I’m wanting the screen to wake back up If i then remotely start the music playing

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Has no one got any ideas on a solution this? Apparantly Picore player and Moode player have this feature.