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Re:PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Ras... by gregmac on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:38AM (#12443245)
> Turns out the standard install goes to sleep if you don't interact with it for 20 mins

Can you cite a source for this? I've used several differnt Pi's for various different purposes, and have never ran into this. In fact up until a couple weeks ago I had one plugged in sitting on my desk that I was using to test something periodically, and it would sometimes sit idle for a couple weeks between connections - but never had a problem with it.

I can find a stackoverflow question filled with people pointing out there is no sleep mode[0], but nothing else about it.

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Re:PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Ras... by rgoodwintx on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:00AM (#12443414)
It's been a while, but when I first set up OctoPi, I'd run into the same thing. Would disappear from Wifi after a short amount of time. At the time, I searched and found a directive to prevent something from going to sleep: wireless, USB (wifi dongle), the whole Pi. Endlessly frustrating. But I think/thought this has been resolved for some time.

Exciting project nonetheless and look forward to using it!

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Re:PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Ras... by Knacker_Hughes on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:17AM (#12443557)
I think the Edimax Nano WiFi dongle driver goes to sleep after a while under the default settings.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61665

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Re:PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Ras... by rgoodwintx on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:40AM (#12443756)
Bingo, that was it!
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Re:PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Ras... by squeaky-clean on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:55AM (#12443899)
I had the same thing happen to me with a wifi adapter. I was using the Pi as a server to host ouimeaux (which creates a REST API to toggle Belkin wifi light switches). It worked great, except after an hour of inactivity it would take 1-2 minutes to register an action, before becoming responsive again for the next hour.

Until I properly found out how to disable wifi power saving, I worked around it by just pinging it from another device every 30 minutes to keep it awake.

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Re:PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Ras... by pjc50 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:59AM (#12443403)
Presumably the X11 / HDMI interface going to sleep, not the whole thing.
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Re:PiBakery – a blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Ras... by jimmytidey on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:26AM (#12443640)
That's correct, it's the display that goes to sleep.
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