Hello! I got the HyperPixel 4.0 Square touchscreen to build a little web kiosk application. Everything is working fine but I have a question/request: Is there a way to blank the screen after a specified amount of time and wake it back up by tapping it again? This would be very convenient to incr…

Thanks. So it seems the only option would be to come up with a script that handles backlight..

HyperPixel 4.0 Square - Screen blanking

bablokb July 2, 2026, 12:13pm 2

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