troublems with systemd and serveronly

dnj0104

Hello I have setup my magicmirror (latest) as follows

Virtual machine on a dell optiplex running magicmirror serveronly

Raspberry pi running chromium-browser in kiosk pointing at VM

BUT when running npm run serveronly on VM my mm-client (raspberrrypi fetch and shows magicmirror interface from server)

then I stop npm serveronly and make a systemd script as the one in magicmirror documents.

[Unit]
Description=MagicMirror
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=sentinel
WorkingDirectory=/home/sentinel/MagicMirror/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /home/sentinel/MagicMirror/serveronly

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and systemctl start and then status magicmirror.service result in following

● magicmirror.service - MagicMirror
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/magicmirror.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2024-04-21 18:36:18 CEST; 1ms ago
   Main PID: 1016038 ((node))
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 8826)
     Memory: 256.0K
        CPU: 224us
     CGroup: /system.slice/magicmirror.service
             └─1016038 (node)

Apr 21 18:36:18 MagicMirrorVm systemd[1]: Started MagicMirror.

but after this action my mm-client (raspberry pi) cant connect to server anymore I get “this site cant be reached”

How do I solve this, to me it seems that mm-serveronly does not start but I’m not sure .

sdetweil

@dnj0104 is the vm with desktop.or only text mode?

I hate systemd setup, it is SO sensitive to os details.

that is why i use pm2 ( node process manager) in my Installation script.

try my script fixuppm2
see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

dnj0104

@sdetweil the VM has only terminal interface I access it with ssh

oo cool script. shall i run it inside my MagicMirror directory or outside in my user directory or in my root folder ?

sdetweil

@dnj0104 script doesn’t care where it is run. assumes ~/MagicMirror

you would delete the systemd stuff.

I have not tried the script on cli mode only

it uses the script at
~,/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh

it is trying to do npm start
change it to npm run server
or node serveronly

dnj0104

@sdetweil

Thanks! I will try that, seems smooth.

dnj0104

@sdetweil

It worked with the pm2 way ! thanks

In mm.sh I wrote npm run server and everything is up n runnin again .

Thanks again !

sdetweil

@dnj0104 awesome! thanks for the feedback