I want to do the following:
Use my raspberry pi as a smart display, kind off like what the Chromecast does when it's not streaming anything. I also want it to turn on and off at certain times, like turn on 8am and turn off 10pm or something like that.
The problem is, that I struggle with turning it on or off. Since the raspberry pi doesn't have a real-time clock and I don't want to attach an extra circuit, I tried to only turn off my display with Cec-Client or vcgencmd. To run the command on a specific time, I tried to run it with cron.
The command was then the following:
0 8 * * * echo "on 0" | /usr/bin/cec-client -s
(also tried some little variations off it)
But nothing ever happens.
Can somebody please help me out, I'm open for completely different solutions if you happen to have a better one.
touch /home/pi/test
)? Experiment until that works. Then tie the two together. – Mark Smith Apr 9 at 9:39