Did anyone every find an answer to this? I have search the forums up and down but no good answer for how to restrict the center regions to set a max width.

@NoEngN3rd said in Flickering display in vertical mode MM2.5.0 (Pi3ModelB): Hi Yes, I did found a solution. :thumbs_up: I consider it as a workaround but I’ll mark this thread as resolved. I setup a cron job (crontab -e) on the raspberry pi which is running the magic mirror: */30 6-22 * * * tvservice --preferred 35 22 * * * tvservice --off 55 5 * * * tvservice --preferred From 6 am til 10:30 pm it powers on the HDMI port with preferred settings. At 10:35 pm the HDMI display is switched off and switched on at 5:55 am. It avoids the issue described above but it is not the solution I had in mind at the beginning. I also ordered a banana pi M3 which is more powerfull (ARM cortex A7). Hopefully it will finally solve this issue. kind regards Hi, How is the result with your Banana Pi? Did you try it yet? I have the same problem with flicking after it reaches 65 degrees C. I’m also wondering if you have any cooling attached to you Pi?

@motdog - No worries. We’re here to help if you run into another problem. Here’s a quick rundown of the moving parts to a typical magic mirror: nodejs - This is what runs the Magic Mirror framework. It technically runs a dynamic webpage which is what you see on your monitor. npm - Node Package Manager. This is a tool that ships with nodejs that handles the downloading of required packages, compiling and running of nodejs applications - including the Magic Mirror framework. electron - This is like a web browser that runs on the Raspi desktop. It shows what nodejs is serving up, minus all the annoying bits of a web browser (menus, address bar, etc.) node_helper.js - This is an optional Javascript file in any module. It is responsible for passing data between the front end (display information) and the back end (calls to web services, authentication, etc.) pm2 - This is a process monitoring application. It’s responsible for running the Magic Mirror startup script and acts as sort of a cruise control. If the Magic Mirror crashes, pm2 will detect that the script has stopped and restart it. This is normally what starts your magic mirror when it boots. X-server - This is the desktop environment for your typical Raspberry Pi. This is what electron runs in, so it must be started in order for electron to work. I’m 90% positive that it’s also necessary for the included web browser Chromium to work. This is what your command startx is firing up. config.js - You’ve probably encountered this guy. This is the configuration file for the Magic Mirror web application. It helps to remember that this file is basically a Javascript data file. It controls how the web application loads and positions modules. It’s important to realize that the module itself may need to be installed/compiled before included in the config file. Including an uninstalled module isn’t going to help you much. I hope this helps.

@jhwwhite said in Disabling sleep mode: I tried downloading a screensaver program but that doesn’t seem to be effective. Which screensaver? xscreensaver is king. Easy to install. Set it. Forget it. https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/9625/installation/19

Did you have any problems with the npm install command? Did that complete successfully? Just be sure, try this: cd ~/MagicMirror npm install npm start Let us know what you receive.

did you ever find a solution?

Hey Guys, I have trouble with the MMM-nstreinen module from @qistoph When I had installed it everything worked, but when I launch the MagicMirror it gives the title of the module with underneath it: “Received data empty or invalid.” I have request multiple different API-keys but it never worked. Can someone help me?[image: 1551558910212-schermafbeelding-2019-03-02-om-21.34.31.png]

@justjim1220 i tried but got no success with gmail, however i was able to setup in another way… all my gmail synced to microsoft account so i tried to set up office account and its working. so now i am able to see my emails from gmail that get synced to outlook.office365 … thanks.

@motdog I just tried your config entry. The module can’t function with rotateInterval: 60,. That is only 60 milliseconds. Please try rotateInterval: 60 * 1000,. That’s 60 seconds. It will give the module time to display the image and the information that comes with each image.

@axled Ok, yes. I think this was the issue. So when I removed the autostart from pm2 it now only boots up the one MagicMirror. Now I’m just having problems to show the MMM-Globe module even though I have activated the OpenGL on the pi. After I removed the autostart from mm.sh my “pm2 ls” command now shows: ┌─────────────┬────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬───────┬────────┬──────────┐ │ Name │ id │ mode │ status │ ↺ │ cpu │ memory │ ├─────────────┼────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼───────┼────────┼──────────┤ │ MagicMirror │ 0 │ 2.6.0 │ fork │ online │ 1 │ 0% │ 2.5 MB │ │ mm │ 1 │ N/A │ fork │ stopped │ 34555 │ 0% │ 0 B │ └─────────────┴────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴───────┴────────┴──────────┘ Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

Solved. Probably it was electron’s problem. I did a fresh install of raspbian and MM and it is working again.

Everything was working with Awesome-Alexa until i got to the command: $ npm install --only=prod once i put this in, i got a huge error message, that i dont even know where to start or what to do as this is my first mirror. Here is the output: pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa $ npm install --only=prod > snowboy@1.2.0 preinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy > npm install node-pre-gyp npm WARN deprecated cryptiles@2.0.5: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version. npm WARN deprecated boom@2.10.1: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version. npm WARN deprecated hoek@2.16.3: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version. npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file. + node-pre-gyp@0.6.39 added 114 packages from 78 contributors and audited 268 packages in 17.795s found 8 moderate severity vulnerabilities run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details > snowboy@1.2.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy > node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(403): https://snowboy-release-node.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/snowboy/v1.2.0/Release/snowboy-v1.2.0-node-v64-linux-arm.tar.gz node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for snowboy@1.2.0 and node@10.15.1 (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(undefined): https://snowboy-release-node.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/snowboy/v1.2.0/Release/snowboy-v1.2.0-node-v64-linux-arm.tar.gz node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for snowboy@1.2.0 and node@10.15.1 (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) make: Entering directory '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/build' make: Entering directory '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/build' CXX(target) Release/obj.target/snowboy/swig/Node/snowboy.o CXX(target) Release/obj.target/snowboy/swig/Node/snowboy.o In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:192:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: ../../nan/nan_maybe_43_inl.h: In function ‘Nan::Maybe<bool> Nan::ForceSet(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::PropertyAttribute)’: ../../nan/nan_maybe_43_inl.h:112:15: error: ‘class v8::Object’ has no member named ‘ForceSet’ return obj->ForceSet(isolate->GetCurrentContext(), key, value, attribs); ^~~~~~~~ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:192:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: ../../nan/nan_maybe_43_inl.h: In function ‘Nan::Maybe<bool> Nan::ForceSet(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::PropertyAttribute)’: ../../nan/nan_maybe_43_inl.h:112:15: error: ‘class v8::Object’ has no member named ‘ForceSet’ return obj->ForceSet(isolate->GetCurrentContext(), key, value, attribs); ^~~~~~~~ In file included from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1:0: ../../nan/nan.h: In function ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’: ../../nan/nan.h:835:60: warning: ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’ is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, func, argc, argv); ^ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:177:50: note: declared here NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback( ^ /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:91:42: note: in definition of macro ‘NODE_DEPRECATED’ __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1:0: ../../nan/nan.h: In function ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::String>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’: ../../nan/nan.h:850:62: warning: ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::String>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’ is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, symbol, argc, argv); ^ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:170:50: note: declared here NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback( ^ /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:91:42: note: in definition of macro ‘NODE_DEPRECATED’ __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1:0: ../../nan/nan.h: In function ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, const char*, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’: ../../nan/nan.h:865:62: warning: ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, const char*, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’ is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, method, argc, argv); ^ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:163:50: note: declared here NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback( ^ /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:91:42: note: in definition of macro ‘NODE_DEPRECATED’ __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1:0: ../../nan/nan.h: In member function ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::Callback::Call_(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*) const’: ../../nan/nan.h:1479:5: warning: ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’ is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] )); ^ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:177:50: note: declared here NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback( ^ /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:91:42: note: in definition of macro ‘NODE_DEPRECATED’ __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1:0: ../../nan/nan.h: In function ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’: ../../nan/nan.h:835:60: warning: ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’ is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, func, argc, argv); ^ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:177:50: note: declared here NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback( ^ /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:91:42: note: in definition of macro ‘NODE_DEPRECATED’ __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1:0: ../../nan/nan.h: In function ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::String>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’: ../../nan/nan.h:850:62: warning: ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::String>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’ is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, symbol, argc, argv); ^ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:170:50: note: declared here NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback( ^ /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:91:42: note: in definition of macro ‘NODE_DEPRECATED’ __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1:0: ../../nan/nan.h: In function ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, const char*, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’: ../../nan/nan.h:865:62: warning: ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, const char*, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’ is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, method, argc, argv); ^ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:163:50: note: declared here NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback( ^ /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:91:42: note: in definition of macro ‘NODE_DEPRECATED’ __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1:0: ../../nan/nan.h: In member function ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::Callback::Call_(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*) const’: ../../nan/nan.h:1479:5: warning: ‘v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)’ is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] )); ^ In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49:0, from ../swig/Node/snowboy.cc:1: /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:177:50: note: declared here NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback( ^ /home/pi/.node-gyp/10.15.1/include/node/node.h:91:42: note: in definition of macro ‘NODE_DEPRECATED’ __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator ^~~~~~~~~~ snowboy.target.mk:107: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/snowboy/swig/Node/snowboy.o' failed make: *** [Release/obj.target/snowboy/swig/Node/snowboy.o] Error 1 make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/build' gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.79-v7+ gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node" "--module_name=snowboy" "--module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm" gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.1 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0 gyp ERR! not ok node-pre-gyp ERR! build error node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node --module_name=snowboy --module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm' (1) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16) node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5) node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.79-v7+ node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build" node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.1 node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.39 node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok snowboy.target.mk:107: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/snowboy/swig/Node/snowboy.o' failed make: *** [Release/obj.target/snowboy/swig/Node/snowboy.o] Error 1 make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/build' Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node --module_name=snowboy --module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm' (1) gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.79-v7+ gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node" "--module_name=snowboy" "--module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm" gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-awesome-alexa/node_modules/snowboy gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.1 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0 gyp ERR! not ok npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! snowboy@1.2.0 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build` npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the snowboy@1.2.0 install script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-02-25T03_06_52_362Z-debug.log If ANYONE is able to help it would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you

nevermind figured it out but idk how to mark as solved, had to get python dev stuff, heres a link if anyone else has issues: SOLUTION

@sdetweil said in 2318 commits behind...: rm package-lock.json rm vendor/package-lock.json Thank you for your quick help. Everything works :)

@ferra1980 said in Autostart MM after reboot doesn't work: I tried to wait, but it is on for 1 hour and I only see the desktop, I think something does not work Ok, waiting an hour is quite long enough. I hope you have success following the link that chris gave you. :thumbsup:

@mykle1 I decided to just run Dakboard VIA the Chromium browser on it. I’v got a couple of other computers that I am going to use for the other Magic Mirror. I have an old Pentium 4 Dell, that I put Linux Mint on, and it runs like a champ. Way better than the one I run on my Raspberry Pi3.

@sdetweil That worked! Nice :) In Terminal I entered: chmod +x portrait.sh Then executed the portrait.sh file I made and the touch IR is now set to portrait. So happy, thanks for your help buddy! I’ve re-ran the “Calibrate Touchscreen” in Preferences again too. It reads: < Calibrating standard Xorg driver “Multi touch overlay device” current calibration values: min_x=0, max_x=65535 and min_y=0, max_y=65535 If these values are estimating wrong, either supply it manually with the - -precalib option, or run the ‘get_precalib.sh’ script to automatically get it (through HAL). > I find the touch curser doesn’t reach the the edges of my monitor. Example I can’t simply click on the Raspberry Icon in the corner. The curser is diaginally 2 inches away? Where can I set or adjust this? Any thoughts? Fun!

@travelguy85 were u able to fix it? if so, please mark you issue resolved…

@ejay-ibm it helps A LOT thanks! 👍🏼

@motdog said in Total rookie, got it "running" but need help: timeFormat: 12 You are missing a comma at line 25 it should be timeFormat: 12, Ejay