Turn Raspberry screen on or off

Control the screen power state of a Raspberry Pi using the vcgencmd command or wlr-randr for Wayland.

Raspberry Pi

Wayland

Try it out before by running wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --off to turn off the screen and wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --on to turn it back on.

shell:

switch:
  - platform: shell
    name: "Screen"
    id: screen
    command_on: "wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --on"
    command_off: "wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --off"
    command_state: |-
      if wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 | grep -q "Enabled: yes"; then
          echo true
      else
          echo false
      fi

X11

Try it out before by running vcgencmd display_power 0 to turn off the screen and vcgencmd display_power 1 to turn it back on.

Be sure to have dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d activated.

shell:

switch:
  - platform: shell
    name: "Screen"
    id: screen
    command_on: "vcgencmd display_power 1"
    command_off: "vcgencmd display_power 0"
    command_state: |-
      if vcgencmd display_power | grep -q "display_power=1"; then
          echo true
      else
          echo false
      fi