Stop and Start MM on a schedule

plainbroke

How do I get MM to Start and Stop on a schedule?
I am running Bookworm 64bit and MM v2.29
This is what used to work in buster 32bit and MM v2.15
in my crontab -e

# Turn off display Sunday - Thursday at 21h45
15 21 * * 0-4 pm2 stop all
# Turn off display Friday - Saturday at 23h45
45 21 * * 5,6 pm2 stop all
# Turn on screen Monday - Friday at 7h00
00 07 * * 1-5 pm2 start mm
# Turn on screen Saturday - Sunday at 8h00
00 08 * * 6,0 pm2 start mm

It doesnt work anymore.
Can someone explain why it doesnt work anymore and how to fix it.

sdetweil

@plainbroke cron typically runs as root, but the pm2 info was saved under some user

you can specify the username in crontab somehow

sdetweil

@plainbroke see
https://serverfault.com/questions/352835/crontab-running-as-a-specific-user

sdetweil

@plainbroke does pm2 launch from cron?

DarrenO 0

@plainbroke Are you running from a Pi?
I used to have scheduled on/off times like this and I used to turn on/off the HDMI port of the Pi at the specified times.
As the screen I had it attached to no longer detected an output source, it would then go into sleep mode until the assigned time the script enabled the HDMI interface again.

I don’t recall the actual command/settings I used to do it, but it was similar to :
// To turn off
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --off
//to turn on.
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --auto