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Keep HDMI off on boot
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I have a battery-powered RPi Zero W that is going to be hooked into a mobile laser projector.
This is an experiential setup, so I need to be able to turn it off and on between uses.
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My goal here is to have the RPi startup but not display anything through the projector (HDMI)
unless I programmatically tell it to. Can anyone point me in the right direction here on how to
do this?
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Basically, I'd like to remove the boot splash image and any text, and keep it from going to
desktop, preferably just keeping the HDMI completely off.
I have a script that I use to turn the display off, but would love to boot this way:
sudo vcgencmd display_power 0
boot hdmi display
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There is a few things you can try:
22 1) Edit /etc/[Link] and add the following lines above exit 0:
# Disable HDMI
/usr/bin/tvservice -o
this will turn off the display, but only somewhere during the boot sequence
2) add hdmi_blanking setting to your /boot/[Link] I found the follwing settings here:
hdmi_blanking=0: HDMI Output will be blank when DPMS is triggered
hdmi_blanking=1: HDMI Output will be disabled when DPMS is triggered
hdmi_blanking=2: HDMI Output will be disabled on boot and can be enabled using the above
listed commands.
But the official documentation does not mention hdmi_blanking=2 only the following 2
settings:
0 HDMI Output will blank instead of being disabled
1 HDMI Output will be disabled rather than just blanking
I think hdmi_blanking=1 should do what you want.
And if that doesn't help you can still try a few other things found in this article:
disable_splash=1 in /boot/[Link]
Edit /boot/[Link] quiet: disable boot message texts, [Link]: removes
Raspberry Pi logo in top left corner, vt.global_cursor_default=0: removes blinking cursor
I don't have a TV to try it on my Raspberry Pi.
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4 What worked for me is setting hdmi_blanking=2 , whereas hdmi_blanking=1 didn't really work.
Thanks! – diegoreymendez Feb 13 '19 at 17:06
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