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A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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ClientOnly - toggle monitor power on and off

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    sdetweil @egzachly
    last edited by Jan 5, 2023, 1:24 AM

    @egzachly to turn off the monitor, you need to execute a command. the browser cannot do that.

    this is done by the node_helper of some module

    today the decision logic is in the browser side, the execution is in the helper.

    so client side (browser) only doesn’t work for this

    Sam

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      egzachly
      last edited by Jan 5, 2023, 2:21 PM

      I figured that was the case. Is it possible to load MM with a config file located somewhere other than the config directory?

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        sdetweil @egzachly
        last edited by sdetweil Jan 8, 2023, 10:27 PM Jan 5, 2023, 3:25 PM

        @egzachly yes

        u can set the path/name of the config.js

        this also makes it so you could launch multiple instances from the same mm folder w different configs

        export MM_CONFIG=full path to config file, or just name
        edit MMM_CONFG_FILE is the correct env variable

        search posts w mm_config to see prior discussions

        Sam

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          egzachly
          last edited by Jan 8, 2023, 10:15 PM

          This isnt working for me

          i set up pm2 with a startup script which looks like this

          cd ~/MagicMirror
          export MM_CONFIG=/mnt/magicmirror/config.js
          DISPLAY=:0 npm start
          

          I’ve verified that the config.js is present at that folder location. when I start with pm2 i get the screen that says
          “Please create a config file or check the existing one for errors”

          to test if it was permissions error on the /mnt directory files. I copied the config to ~/mmconfig and edited the script to read

          ...
          export MM_CONFIG=/home/egzachly/mmconfig/config.js
          ...
          

          And I get the same error message.

          I then confirmed that there is not an error with the config.js by copying it to ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js and starting with

          npm start
          

          And it runs flawlessly. Unfortunately, running it from there is not what I want to do. Is there a syntax error in my pm2 shell script?

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            sdetweil @egzachly
            last edited by Jan 8, 2023, 10:26 PM

            @egzachly my fault…

            export MM_CONFIG_FILE=

            sam@galliumos:~/MagicMirror$ export MM_CONFIG_FILE=/mnt/config.js
            sam@galliumos:~/MagicMirror$ npm start
            
            > magicmirror@2.22.0 start
            > DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
            
            [08.01.2023 16:24.39.762] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.22.0
            [08.01.2023 16:24.39.768] [LOG]   Loading config ...
            [08.01.2023 16:24.39.770] [LOG]   config=/mnt/config.js
            

            I added a console print to verify

            Sam

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              sdetweil @egzachly
              last edited by Jan 8, 2023, 10:31 PM

              @egzachly also you can use the ln command to link the config.js to the real file somewhere else… MM doesn’t know the link is not a real file…

              Sam

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