Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MM shuts down after an hour
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@sdetweil I am having trouble following you, but that would most likely be due to my poor understanding of programming and its terminology.
You say
@sdetweil said in MM shuts down after an hour:
look at the messages put out from npm start
if you see
cannot find module xxxx
then this mm module has the problem… I don’t even understand what you mean by “messages put out from npm start”. Is that the “start screen” for MM, the one that appears if you have a say an error in your config file?
However, I’m thinking that’s not the issue here. As I mentioned, I did follow your guide “fix for black screen in 2.16 …”, and the output was normal. Also, I don’t always get black screens, sometimes it’s a login screen.
The screensaveroff script didn’t help either. MM still shuts down after a while. It’s not always after an hour, seems to vary. Earlier today it had shut down after 39 mins, now it’s been running for over 40 mins.
Again, I’m sorry for my bad skills at this. Any help would be much appreciated!
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@Lazershrimp I only have one more question
does it shutdown if MagicMirror is not running?
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@sdetweil said in MM shuts down after an hour:
I only have one more question
does it shutdown if MagicMirror is not running?Thanks for your patience, Sam.
Haven’t actually tried not running the MM, since it autostarts. And I don’t have a mouse/keyboard attached to the mirror setup. Good question though.
But - I think I might actually have figured out what the problem is! I pulled out a long ethernet cable to hardwire the Pi to internet. And - it’s been running for three hours straight now. Thinking that this might actually be a hardware issue.
If it still runs tomorrow morning, I will call this a faulty Wifi circuit issue. Strange though, that it would coincide with the software update.
What do you you think? Could a dodgy Wifi crash the MM app?
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@Lazershrimp dodgie wifi creates dodgie data, which crashes all kind of apps
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MM has been running flawlessly for >24h now, with assistance of a LAN cable. I consider the issue solved. Have ordered a wifi usb dongle as a more permanent solution. I consider this issue solved.
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@Lazershrimp awesome detective work!!
