Posterr Script - Download and start install steps

What is this?

If you implement the Sleep Timer feature in Posterr, the screen is blanked out, but still powered on. This script uses the CEC feature of your HDMI connected display to put the display in standby mode. This will save power and increase the longevity of your display.

Posterr scripts are designed to work on a rPi with a connected CEC compatible display.

Compatibility

There are items required for the script

• These scripts will only work on a Raspberry Pi 4/5, that is being used to display Posterr
• The operating system should be PI OS or PI OS Lite.
• Displays connected via HDMI.
• The monitor or tv being used must support CEC control.
• The cec-utils package is required for this script to work. (the install script will install this if needed)

Get the Posterr scripts

Download

cd ~/
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petersem/posterr/master/scripts/rpiwatcherservice.tar.gz -o rpiwatcherservice.tar.gz 
mkdir ~/posterr-scripts

Decompress

tar -xvf rpiwatcherservice.tar.gz -C ~/posterr-scripts

Set script permissions

cd ~/posterr-scripts
sudo chmod 777 sleepwatch-install-service.sh
sudo chmod +X sleepwatch-install-service.sh

Start installation

./sleepwatch-install-service.sh

Installation script MUST run as your standard user, not with sudo

Uninstall

To uninstall the Poster Script, run the remove script and then delete the poster-scripts folder

~/posterr-scripts/sleepwatch-remove-service.sh
cd ~
sudo rm -R posterr-scripts

Troubleshooting

• Limited support is available on Discord.
• Run the following command to check the status of the service.

  sudo systemctl status posterr-watcher.service
  

Technical Details

• This script implements a systemd service which runs the ~/poster-scripts/sleepwatch.sh script.
• The sleepwatch script polls a Posterr API ever 5 seconds to determine if Posterr is in scheduled sleep mode or not. It then issues an on or standby command to the attached display.

The script does the following:

• Gathers the URL for Posterr, current user and home directory
• Substitutes values and creates the ‘sleepwatch.sh’ file.
• Substitutes values into the service unit file
• Restarts as super user (required for installation)
• Installs cec-utils if not nstalled.
• Copies the unit file, installs, then starts the service.

This is a new feature and script, so let me know how you go on Discord.

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