PiTsOff
Kodi/OSMC screensaver for Raspberry Pi officisal touchscreen.
This is a screensaver addon for Kodi which can switch the official raspberry pi touchscreen backlight off/on.
It has been tested on OSMC, but it requires at least version 2016.04-1 (because that release has the backlight control overlay included).
It has also been tested on OpenELEC 6.95.2.
It might work on other Kodi installs, provided the underlying operating system has the /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/bl_power path available.
To install:
- Using a web browser (on your PC or whatever), download the screensaver.pitsoff-x.x.x.zip file from the project's releases
- Copy the zip somewhere the Pi can find it
- From the Add-on page, choose install from zip and locate the zip file, then wait for the installed message. You may need to allow installing addons from any source (this is a security risk, and I encourage you to look inside the zip file to check that there's nothing in there that shouldn't be, and do the same for any other addons you install in this way).
- From the Appearance settings, select the newly-installed screensaver and choose a timeout
To use it:
- Wait for the screensaver to start
- The screen will go black
- The backlight should switch off
To switch the screen back on:
- Touch the screen once
- Wait a second for the backlight to come on
- Continue using Kodi/OSMC/OpenELEC
If you want a screensaver to turn an HDMI monitor off/on instead, take a look at pimon which was where I got the inspiration & starting point for this project.