Sleep / Wake a Display

this page / section pertains to brightsign author , our latest app for authoring and managing content and players for the legacy app, refer to our legacy docs docid\ i5zf53dx56wdwdfhlrot1 you can enable or disable powersavemode in brightsign author by attaching a wake or sleep command to a state or an event like a button press docid\ zenucdxd1jwoyrixmfm4t cec commands cec commands can be used in various ways to turn the display on or off attaching to states cec commands can be attached to a state in this example, a cec command is attached to an image state image 1 to schedule your screen to wake at a certain time create an advanced presentation add a timeout event to the content and select the image (see above) open the advanced window under state properties add a brightcontrol command the settings, when applied to the example presentation shown above, will show the brightsign at startup, then time out to the next image each time the scheduled presentation begins playback, it will enter the image state (with the brightsign logo) and power on the display attaching to events cec commands can be attached to events in this example, a cec command is initiated from a gpio event, in this case a button press to turn the monitor off at a certain time create an interactive playlist with a logo or blank image attach a gpio event to the content set the event properties as shown in the image at right open the advanced panel and add a brightcontrol command to turn off the display as shown in the image note that the brightcontrol command uses hdmi’s cec commands and thus only works with hdmi to hdmi connections it does not work for hdmi to dvi connections because dvi does not support cec commands monitor power save mode for hdmi to dvi connections where brightcontrol commands don’t work, you may be able to use the “monitor power save mode” command to sleep or wake a display by turning player output on or off these commands work with both hdmi to hdmi and hdmi to dvi connections enable the monitor power save mode this setting turns the player video output off disable the monitor power save mode this setting turns the player video output back on note with some displays, a “monitor power save mode” command may cause the display to switch to another input or produce an “idle” or “no signal” screen rather than making the display go to sleep be sure to test this functionality with the intended display to ensure it functions as desired