I have a box running kodi in standalone mode with X11. My TV displays “no signal” if I leave it for too long, does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

I can still ssh into the box and use the remote app Kore so the system hasn’t suspended or anything like that.

Pressing up/down etc on the kore remote, which should change what is displayed on screen, doesn’t wake kodi up. However, I can wake it up if I tell Kodi to play a video.

  • @michaelmroseEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    You can also simply turn dpms off in a startup script run when your user session starts. The command is

     xset -dpms
    • @AlpacaChariotOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Thanks, in this case that wasn’t suitable for me because it wasn’t a full desktop environment, just Kodi in standalone mode. So there was no easy way to run the command like there would be on a desktop or laptop, I had to add it to my systemd unit file.

      • @michaelmroseEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Sounds fine is there any benefit to running kodi in standalone mode vs fullscreen at startup in a simple wm?

        • @AlpacaChariotOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I think standalone mode is just the normal binary with some preset options enabled to allow better control of system/screen settings, auto mounting USB drives etc.