{"id":698,"date":"2019-01-30T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k2dls.net\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2019-02-03T06:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T11:35:47","slug":"turn-off-hdmi-on-pi-star-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/turn-off-hdmi-on-pi-star-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn off HDMI on Pi-Star (Easier)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s an even easier way to turn off HDMI on your Pi-Star image running under Raspbian.  If you&#8217;re running one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pistar.uk\/beta\/\">Pi-Star 4.0 release candidates<\/a>, the tvservice command may already be installed.  You can check by issuing the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>which tvservice<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If it is installed, just add the HDMI off command to \/etc\/rc.local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># Turn off HDMI\n\/usr\/bin\/tvservice -o<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re running Pi-Star 3.x, I learned that you can install tvservice from a .deb package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi-bin<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>For some reason this did not turn up during my initial searches but was pointed out over in the <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.pistar.uk\/\">Pi-Star Forums<\/a> by Dennis (W1MT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also seems that Andy (MM0MWZ) is considering adding a button in the future which would allow turning off HDMI from the web interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an even easier way to turn off HDMI on your Pi-Star image running under Raspbian. If you&#8217;re running one of the Pi-Star 4.0 release candidates, the tvservice command may already be installed. You can check by issuing the following command: If it is installed, just add the HDMI off command to \/etc\/rc.local. If you&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/turn-off-hdmi-on-pi-star-easier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turn off HDMI on Pi-Star (Easier)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[124,122,125,18,29],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","category-technology","tag-mw0mwz","tag-pi-star","tag-power","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-rpi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}