default calendar fetching issues

nowayto

@sdetweil
Yes I agree, the memory is very limiting.
Although mine is a Pi3 model A, but the memory is 512mb like the pi02w.
When I started the project I had something different in my mind and now I’m pushing it to the limit.

But as I said I checked everytime the CPU temperature, memory and generally resources usage from “htop” command.

This morning MM started with calendar error, I did a “pm2 restart mm” and goes OK.

Now I put “sleep 120” inside mm.sh as first line
I restarted it now

Memory BEFORE restart was this
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 427 156 90 70 179 147
Swap: 1023 231 792

Not so good but not so bad, same time.

I’ll check if this delay could help.
Is there a way to put a little delay between the loading of every module ? Maybe 5/10 seconds, I though it could be very helpful on a limited machine like mine :)

sdetweil

@nowayto there is no way to delay loading

emlowe

I had considerable problems with running on a model A - but I found dietPI (https://dietpi.com/) to be a solid distro that works well even when using the default electron GUI front-end. (Previously OOM’d consistently)

Note, also I frequently have trouble with the calendar events appears as there seems to be some problem in the websocket communication layer (this bug: https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror/issues/3380)

I basically use MMM-RemoteControl to force a refresh in a daily cron job (curl http://localhost:8080/api/refresh) and this works. Why? No One knows

nowayto

@emlowe I have a similar problem, I solved modifing mm.sh with

sleep 30
DISPLAY=:0 npm start
sleep 60
pm2 restart mm

“pm2 restart mm” does a refresh like you do with RemoteControl

sdetweil

@nowayto if pm2 is being used, its JOB is to keep the app running

so the pm2 restart seems odd as if the app was ended , ctrl-q
pm2 would do restart already