Monitor on/off

Bsanderson

January 13, 2011 09:48

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I have two displays on two BS 210W one is a LCD 720p PC monitor (DVI) and the second is a LCD 720p TV Monitor (HDMI). I can get the PC monitor to go into sleep mode since PC monitors are set to do this using the BA function. The TV monitor is the problem. I know it would be a vendor option to have a TV going into stand by. When the BS is finishes its presentation schedule for the day. The BS 210W seems to close down the HDMI signal. So the TV monitor gets a no signal then shutoff. I would have to have someone manually power on the TV each day. The best I can do at this point is on the TV have the end of day presentation be a black background image. Making the TV look like it is off. Any one have similar issue with TV monitors and needing to have them power down over night? It will save power and extent the life of the TV use. If anyone knows of a TV LCD monitor 720p 20inch HDMI input that can be power on and off by the BA function please send me the TV model # and vendor. thanks for any suggestions.

LFKerr January 13, 2011 22:35

if you can go to Brightsigns with the GPIO ports, or perhaps a network port, you could add scripts or other commands to trigger contact closures or web-commands. Then an external box would accept either the contact closure or the network command to turn off a relay that switches the power to the monitor in question.

At the expensive extreme, there are things like the Surge-x SX-1115-RT power conditioners for working off of voltage or contact closure. There are smaller ones (literally and financially, but I can't remember their name right now, and they've been moved from where I last saw one.)

The problem with this sort of solution is that would it turn itself back on when the power came back on in the morning? This is why we tend to buy commercial/industrial displays that might even still have a mechanical power switch.

Leo Kerr

Monitor on/off

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