Ext-PIR works for a few days then stops

sailor

Have have had this installed for a while. It all works perfectly for few days and then stops waking up when you approach. If I login using VNC the screen in blank but using the keyboard to refresh Magic Mirror it all starts working again.

Any ideas please?

Running on a RPi 3B+

bugsounet

hi, any alert / error with EXT-Alert ?

sailor

Nothing comes up from the EXT-Alert. However the screen remains blank when I login via VNC on the Remote Desktop and the normal screen.

bugsounet

Can you try this in ssh (or terminal) and past the result ?

cat /boot/config.txt |grep dtoverlay

sailor

File Edit Tabs Help pi@raspberrypi:- $ cat /boot/config.txt |grep

#dtoverlay=gpio-ir, gpio_pin=17
#dtoverlay=gpio-ir-tx, gpio_pin=18
dtoverlay=vc4-fkms -v3d
#dtoverlay=vc4-fkms -v3d

pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Came out from the command.

Thanks

bugsounet

why dtoverlay=vc4-fkms -v3d ?
this driver don’t exist…

Can you try with:
dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d

sailor

Sorry those are just additional spaces put in by the image capture software it is running the driver you suggest.

The annoying thing is it works perfectly for two or three days before stopping.

bugsounet

in linux Sensitive Case (uppercase/lowercase) and space is very important

After let’s see there
response is inside (EXT-Screen don’t turn off my screen)

sailor

Sorry I am not sure what you want me to do next? Thanks for the help

bugsounet

bah … correct your config.txt file in /boot

dtoverlay=vc4-fkms -v3d must be dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d

sailor

It is correct already, I copied the line slightly wrong from the screen.

bugsounet

So can you give me again the result of:

cat /boot/config.txt |grep dtoverlay

and past your EXT-Screen config too

sailor

This is the response to the command.

sailor

This is the config that I am running.

Thanks for the help.

Unsolved Ext-PIR works for a few days then stops