Hardware

I want to build a smart home display for my living room. Additionally it should go to to sleep/screensaving automatically and I want it to wake up if someone walks by.

So I buyed a cheap infrared PIR motion sensor.
Something like this:
Look at amazon

Then I connected it to 5V, GND and GPIO Pin 4:
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And now the software part

I tried some Python scripts but for my case these were not robust enough. To exit the screensaver you Need to execute some console commands.

First: Configure screensaver

This sets the screensaver and power management to power off after 2 minutes

Second: Exit screensaver from console

This code resets the timer and brings on power again.

Third: Do it on GPIO event
After some Fails I found GPIO-Watch, a small utility that watches GPIO events and executes shell scripts.

Preparation

1. Download

2. Unzip

3. Enter Directory

4. Build

Configuration

1. Create a script named „4“ under /etc/gpio-watch because gpio-watch will later execute this on rising on GPIO pin 4.
2. Put your commands into the script

3. Let gpio-watch watch your Pins