michelnet / mqtt-screen-power

MQTT Client for turning HDMI screen power on and off

MQTT Screen Power

MQTT Client written in Python for turning HDMI screen power on and off. Made for the Rapsberry Pi 3B+ which is using a third-party touch screen which does not completely switch off the screen with screensaver / power saving

Usage

• Copy config.template.py to config.py and change the properties to your MQTT setup/preferences

• Install paho-mqtt

  pip install paho-mqtt

• Run

  python paho-mqtt

Example use in Home Assistant

switch:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Touch Panel"
    icon: mdi:tablet
    command_topic: "screen/rpi"
    payload_on: 'on'
    payload_off: 'off'