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Avoiding installing anything or rebooting, how can I "wake" the TTY1 display via SSH? None of the suggestions (Stopping Raspberry Pi display sleep) worked on my running Pi.
From what I have read trying to get an answer, these would work if I rebooted, which I am trying to avoid.
So after a lot of googling I found the codes that setterm should be sending to the tty and these two command unblank the screen every time.
sudo chmod 666 /dev/tty1
echo -ne "\033[9;0]" >/dev/tty1
The only reason I can think of all the other commands (that should have worked) failing was because the Pi is connected via svideo to a tv and not HDMI or a monitor.
sudo chmod to change the permissions on the tty device, nor should you do this. The correct code should be: sudo bash -c 'echo -ne "\033[9;0]" > /dev/tty1'
http://www.winds.org/pub/grdl/ANSI.txt
ESC[9;#] is to set the timeout for screen blanking. If you want to leave the timeout value alone, then use ESC[13] to unblank a screen.
So, depending on your shell (I use tcsh) a simple echo would be
echo -n "\e[13]" > /dev/tty1
Using the above example
echo -ne "\033[13]" > /dev/tty1
I saw no need to chmod 666 /dev/tty1 first. But I run as root (because I trust my abilities).
I've probably answered this before, here or somewhere... but no worries...
Try:
setterm -blank poke
should unblank the screen from a login, BUT... usually you need to send the appropriate codes to /dev/tty1, not the /dev/pty/X you're using as an ssh user... thus:
setterm -blank poke | sudo tee /dev/tty1 > /dev/null
This sends setterm's output (magic codes!) to the proper terminal to wake it up as you desire. Since I do this often, and use other options too, I made a little script I call 'tty1'
#!/bin/bash
#
# send 'setterm' commands to /dev/tty1 (physical console)
setterm $* | sudo tee /dev/tty1 > /dev/null
Which I use like this:
tty1 -reset -cursor off
This command resets/clears the screen, returning to text mode and turns off the blinky cursor. handy when I don't want the distraction.
tty1 -blank poke
Would wake up the screen. (Well, should... works for me(tm))
(Do remember that you'll need to either set up nopasswd access to sudo, or be prepared to type the root password when you use this command)
But wait! If you call now! We'll include this gem: How to remove the need to supply a password for sudo usage! Operators are standing by!
Add this line to a file named "no-sudo-passwd-for-pi" (no dots allowed!) in /etc/sudoers.d/
pi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
This will cause the user 'pi' to not require a password for ANY sudo invocation. BEWARE! This can be considered a security risk. Balance your need for this usage against the potential risks involved. (see man sudoers)
To avoid a chmod, you can just use sudo tee to write to the console:
echo -ne "\033[9;0]" | sudo tee /dev/tty1
I had this problem after exiting XBMC and going back to console screen: everything stayed black.
I solved this by calling once /usr/bin/xinit
