Disable screen blanking raspberry pi

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• Raspberry Pi 4 - Screen Blanking manually via command line 2023

The raspberry pi using the most recent Raspbian image will make the display turn off every 30 minutes by default if no input is detected. This is how to disable it:

• edit the file /etc/kbd/config

sudo nano /etc/kbd/config

• Locate: BLANK_TIME=30
  • Change value to 0
• Locate: POWERDOWN_TIME=30
  • Change value to 0