Sleep or Wake a Display

You can enable or disable PowerSaveMode in BrightAuthor:connected by attaching a wake or sleep command to a State or an Event like a button press.

CEC Commands (Turning the Display On/Off)

Attaching a CEC Command to an Image State

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To schedule your screen to wake at a certain time:

1. Create an interactive playlist with the content to display

2. Add a Timeout Event to the content and select the image (see Image 1).

3. Open the Advanced tab under State Properties (see Image 2)

4. Add a BrightControl command. The settings below, when applied to the example presentation shown above, will result in the BrightSign logo being displayed at startup. The presentation will 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.

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Attaching a CEC Command to a Button Press Event

To turn the monitor off at a certain time:

1. Create an interactive playlist with a logo or blank image

2. Attach a GPIO Event to the content.

3. Set the Event Properties as shown in Image 3 below.

4. Open the Advanced panel and add a BrightControl command to turn off the display as shown in the image below.

Monitor Power Save Mode (Turning Player Output On/Off)

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. 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.