Enhancement Control of current screensaver on/off

[MikeGuest]

Enhancement Summary

allow user to change whether system is active

Detailed Description

I want to change the behaviour of the display screen depending upon the time of day.
During daylight hours, i'd like to avoid the screensaver and just dim
Overnight, i'd like the screensaver to blank the screen.

I can change the timeout on the screensaver between 60 secs and (0 or 86400) secs to prevent the screensaver from kicking in. What i don't seem to be able to do is to alert the panel to this change. (short of a reboot which seems a bit extreme)

Am i missing something (entirely possible) or is this just not a feature of the panel?

Thanks

Additional Context

No response

[edwardtfn]

I can change the timeout on the screensaver between 60 secs and (0 or 86400) secs to prevent the screensaver from kicking in. > What i don't seem to be able to do is to alert the panel to this change. (short of a reboot which seems a bit extreme)

I would expect the panel waking up when you set "Timeout Sleep" to 0s, which means you are disabling the sleep mode. Isn't that happening?
Also, any change to the sleep time should take effect immediately. Isn't that happening?

[edwardtfn]

Hey @MikeGuest, any update on this?

[MikeGuest]

apologies - i missed your reply. Let me refresh my memory and re-test to make sure i know what i'm talking about.

[giannoug]

Hello @edwardtfn and sorry for the direct mention,
as of today, how is this achievable? Not only turning backlight off which can be achieved by *_display_brightness_sleep, but also have the display actually turn off.

[edwardtfn]

Hello @edwardtfn and sorry for the direct mention, as of today, how is this achievable? Not only turning backlight off which can be achieved by *_display_brightness_sleep, but also have the display actually turn off.

What are you trying to achieve?
Powering off the display is possible (and pretty easy), however, in the way the Nextion display works, it won't support touch in the screen in that case and also it will show de boot screen when it is back.

Please try this to expose the screen power switch:

switch:
  - id: !extend screen_power
    internal: false

[giannoug]

What are you trying to achieve?

I just want the display show "nothing" instead of only having the backlight off (and the display still updating and working even though you can't see it)

[edwardtfn]

Well, in fact there are some items that still updating when the panel is on the screensaver page. Most of those items are related to the home page, with the purpose of a faster wake-up (the updated info will be shown instantaneously), however, if you want, you can disable that on the blueprint: