I am pretty much a n00b even though I have been working at learning linux on and off for many years. In other words, my skill level is novice.
I have been working with DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. What I am currently doing is running a very low priority, in house/self-hosted, Wordpress server. It works very well except that the Pi seems to go into a sleep mode after a long period of inactivity. I cannot wake it with keyboard. I cannot reach it via SSH. I cannot reach it via HTTP. I am connecting via the internal WiFi adapter and do have BT enabled. My keyboard is a wired USB keyboard and no mouse.
It might be two separate issues: screen blanking and deep sleep.
I have done quite a bit of reading but haven’t been successful.
What is the definitive answer for how to turn off screen blanking permanently?
How can I turn off any and all sleep modes?
I forgot to set that after re-imaging this last time. Thanks.
That is the main thread that frustrated me. (Others, like on the Raspberry Pi forum too.) /etc/kbd/config doesn’t exist. Indeed, /etc/kbd doesn’t exist either.
I noticed that there was a new DietPi image so I backed up the Wordpress site and set the system up again. There are no sleep problems except for screen blanking; it keeps pulling up HDMI2 on my monitor when I access the site after screen blanks. That gets quite annoying when I’m using my desktop on HDMI1. I haven’t tried a fix yet but I think the screen fix from my previous post will work.
Well, the screen blank problem is solved. After a while, I can log into the Pi directly but cannot access it via SSH or HTTP.
It seems to happen when the DHCP lease runs out. I needed static local IP so I set that. Now, I had a time when the interface had two IP addresses after the initial lease was up. One was the dynamic IP and the other was the static IP. When I checked no-ip (I am NOT yet using the web URL, this is all 192.168.0.xxx right now), it showed two wlan interfaces! I rebooted and that issue disappeared. Throughout all of this, I could do the internet connectivity test in dietpi-config. It had internet connectivity.
The only remaining issue is that when the system sits for a half-day to a day, it is not accessible via WiFi. It doesn’t matter if I log back in on keyboard. The only thing that will bring it back online is to reset WiFi on the Raspberry Pi Zero W.
I will try a search this week for that exact issue. With this problem, DietPi is unusable for my needs. I really hope it can be solved.
I haven’t tried a fix yet but I think the screen fix from my previous post will work.