Kodi screensaver that turns your screen off to save power

This Kodi screensaver turns your TV, projector or monitor off, so it can actually "save your screen".

How does it work ?

It supports the following display methods:

• CEC (built-in)

  • The screensaver forces the display to go into Standby using internal CEC controls.

• No Signal on Raspberry Pi (using vcgencmd)

  • The screensaver causes 'no signal' using the vcgencmd utility. This only works on Raspberry Pi.

• DPMS (built-in)

  • The screensaver immediately forces the display off using internal DPMS (Energy Star) controls.

• DPMS (using xset)

  • The screensaver immediately forces the display off using the xset utility to set DPMS off state.

• DPMS (using vbetool)

  • The screensaver immediately forces the display off using the vbetool utility to set DPMS off state.

• DPMS (using xrandr)

  • The screensaver immediately forces the display off using the xrandr utility to set DPMS off state.

• CEC on Android (kernel)

  • The screensaver immediately forces the display off using kernel CEC controls and turns off device.

• Backlight on Raspberry Pi (kernel)

  • The screensaver turns off the backlight of the display. This only works on Raspberry Pi.

• Backlight on Odroid C2 (kernel)

  • The screensaver turns off the backlight of the display. This only works on Odroid C2.

Optionally it also can put your system to sleep or power it off using one of the following methods:

• Suspend (built-in)
• Hibernate (built-in)
• Quit (built-in)
• Shutdown (built-in)
• Reboot (built-in)
• Powerdown (built-in)

Or log off your user or mute audio.

One can press the HOME key to deactivate the screensaver, depending on the method used and the state of the display/system it may turn your display and system back on.

Related

A collection of related links:

• Hardware hack for turning RPi on over CEC

Reporting issues

You can report issues at our GitHub project.

Releases

v0.10.3 (2020-08-01)

• Workflow changes for Matrix

v0.10.2 (2019-11-21)

• Create separate entrypoint
• Improve stability
• Add more unit tests

v0.10.1 (2019-10-30)

• Add sanity tests, unit tests and coverage support
• Use JSON-RPC for all built-ins
• Improvements for Python 3
• Support Odroid-C2 display method

v0.10.0 (2019-03-13)

• Support RPi touchscreen display method
• Improve mute and unmuting audio using JSON-RPC

v0.9.2 (2018-06-07)

• Fix translations
• Fix an issue when stopping the screensaver

v0.9.1 (2018-04-14)

• Improve documentation
• Don't log when no action was taken
• Fix sanity issues

v0.9.0 (2018-04-13)

• Improve help in add-on settings
• Improve add-on logging
• Add icon and title to pop-ups

v0.8.1 (2018-04-12)

• Renamed add-on from 'No Signal' to 'Turn Off'
• Support vbetool and xrandr display methods
• Support Android CEC display method
• Support built-in and Android power methods
• Support Mute built-in
• Show a pop-up when errors are detected

v0.8.0 (2018-04-12)

• Support built-in DPMS and CEC display methods
• Improve add-on settings

v0.7.4 (2018-04-12)

• Support RPi and X11 xset DPMS display methods
• Support System.LogOff built-in
• Initial release