Thursday, 22 May 2014 09:56

Raspberry Pi Schedule Turn OFF/ON Display

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Edit the crontab file
sudo su - #switch to supuer user
crontab -e #edit crontab file

Put this line at the end of the file. This will turn off display at 5.30PM and turn on display at 8.30AM

30 17 * * * tvservice -o

30 8 * * * tvservice -p; fbset -depth 8; fbset -depth 16

 
Crontab syntax:
*     *     *   *    *        command to be executed
-     -     -   -    -
|     |     |   |    |
|     |     |   |    +----- day of week (0-6) (Sunday=0)
|     |     |   +------- month (1-12)
|     |     +--------- day of month (1-31)
|     +----------- hour (0-23)
+------------- minute (0-59)
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