Turn off laptop screen running Hassio

Home Assistant OS
#1

I’m running the Intel NUC image on a surface pro 4 which is working great except the screen is showing the console 24/7. Does anyone know the commands I could run from ssh to turn the laptop screen off?

#2

How about a smart switch on the monitor power?

That’s the easy way out I took.

#3

This does the trick on most *nixes:

export DISPLAY=:0 && xset dpms force off

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#4

Thanks but I’m using a surface pro 4 so it’s the built in display that I need to turn off.

#5

I must have tuned off my brain when I saw ‘NUC’. Sorry.

#6

I tried that but got a xset command not found error from bash so I’m guessing that’s not supported on hassio

#7

Are you using a VM in Windows 10 or actually running HassOS on the Surface as the OS?

#8

Its the Intel NUC directly on the Surface. I loaded ubuntu on a live usb and then burned the hassio image to the surface hard drive. So no windows.

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#9

Thank you so much for the idea!!!

I did the same thing on my kid’s old school laptop and got myself a beatiful HA box up and running…
…but, of course, it has the same issue with the screen.

Did you find any way to turn it off?

#10

Not yet.

Have you tried @Bit-River suggestion above? It might work for you.