Screen sleep event

[emilevirus]

As a follow up to: 

I ordered a smart outlet and set it up in my homeassistant. I created a webhook to turn it off/on and made a powershell script to call it. I now need to figure out how to setup Windows so it calls the script when it's inactive and turn it back on when there's activity. There don't seem to be any event that covers that in task scheduler. How can I achieve that?

[BobVonBob]

I don't know if there's an event for screen off, but tasks can be scheduled for "On Idle", and that could be configured to be effectively equivalent to the screen off event, since that's also triggered by idle time. Returning from idle might be harder. I think there's a way to trigger tasks off of events from Event Viewer, so you could see what the "return from sleep" event is in Event Viewer, probably under "System", and trigger off that.

[GoodBytes]

If you turn off the receiver, does that stop the monitor from waking up from standby, and returning back to it.

I feel like your receiver is having fun with the monitor more than your PC.