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Running digital signage software on Pi OS 24/7 to inform people about Covid-19 and such. In the weekends and at night this is not necessary.

Is there software or a setting where I can schedule a screen off/on time?

Thanks

David Hobbs
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Schedule a cron job which disables the screensaver / energy saving (xset s off -dpms) on Monday morning, and another job which re-enables the the screensaver / energy saving (or simply reboots the system) on Friday night.

Or permanently disable the screensaver/DPMS and manage the HDMI output using tvservice --off / tvservice --preferred

Dmitry Grigoryev
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