[Remote-Control] Shutdown, Configure and Update your MagicMirror

A Former User

Can anyone post a example of his config, so I can see what to do to switch on/off the single modules? I only do have the default values there, shutdown etc…

Appreciate your help, thx

fox

@PatrickGlatz

You should oopen it on a device: :8080/remote.html and after you changed sth you will see, that your config has been greatly rewritten! :-)

So no need to change other modules configs

kurt

@strawberry-3.141
thank you, the icons are here again :slight_smile:
I’ll try to install pm2 so I can use the New start and Switch off feature.

pepemujica

Hi @Jopyth !

I’m trying to acces from my smartphone, but I have no answer.
From the browser were is runnig the MM I am able to run the contrl, but not from other device. Any idea why?

Kind regards

strawberry 3.141

@pepemujica check your whitelist settings

pepemujica

@strawberry-3.141 it is empty, with this any IP is allowed to access, am I right?

strawberry 3.141

@pepemujica should be yes. When you enter from a device which gets blocked through the ipwhitelist you get a message in the logs

pepemujica

@strawberry-3.141 Still can’t find the way, the whitelist is empty, I can access from the browser where it is installed the MM, but outside that I can’t, even being at the same wifi network :(

kurt

@strawberry-3-141
PM2 restart won’t work.
Could you have a look, please.
Thanks a lot

[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
Use --update-env to update environment variables
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬─────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ watching │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴─────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show ` to get more details about an app

[PM2][ERROR] Process mm not found

{ Error: Command failed: pm2 restart mm
[PM2][ERROR] Process mm not found

    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:218:12)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:877:16)
    at Socket. (internal/child_process.js:334:11)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:493:12) killed: false, code: 1, signal: null, cmd: 'pm2 restart mm' }
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

strawberry 3.141

@kurt looks like there is currently no instance running that can be restarted so just start a new one by doing pm2 start mm

kurt

@strawberry-3.141
Thank you, this is what I get…

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $  pm2 start mm
[PM2][ERROR] script not found : /home/pi/MagicMirror/mm
script not found : /home/pi/MagicMirror/mm
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬─────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ watching │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴─────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show ` to get more details about an app
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 show

  error: missing required argument `id'

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

strawberry 3.141

@kurt [PM2][ERROR] script not found

did you follow these steps to create the script? https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror

kurt

@strawberry-3.141
yes I did it following the steps in that wiki

yawns

Shouldn’t pm2 start mm be executed in ~ and not in ~/MagicMirror ? The tutorial said to create mm.sh in ~

So please go back one folder with cd .. or directly with cd ~ and try again

kurt

@yawns
this is what I get,
do you think it is a good idea to start the install routine once again from the beginning? pi@raspberrypi:~ $
in my modules folder there is no PM2 folder. Should there be one?
Thanks a lot for help
kurt

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm start
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.50-v7+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v6.10.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! path /home/pi/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall open

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/npm-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~ $  pm2 start mm
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/pi/.pm2
[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
[PM2][ERROR] script not found : /home/pi/mm
script not found : /home/pi/mm
┌──────┬──────┬────────┬───┬─────┬────────┐
│ Name │ mode │ status │ ↺ │ cpu │ memory │
└──────┴──────┴────────┴───┴─────┴────────┘
 Use `pm2 show ` to get more details about an app

yawns

@kurt

If you want to start the process with npm start then you have to do that inside ~/MagicMirror
However if you want to use pm2 then I would advise following the instructions again: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror

pm2 seems to be working fine on your raspberry, so I would start here:

Make a MagicMirror start script. To use PM2 in combination with MagicMirror, we need to make a simple shell script. Preferable, we put this script outside the MagicMirror folder to make sure it won’t give us any issues if we want to upgrade the mirror.

cd ~
nano mm.sh

Add the following lines:

cd ~/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

Save and close, using the commands CTRL-O and CTRL-X. Now make sure the shell script is executable bij performing the following command:

chmod +x mm.sh

You are now ready to the MagicMirror using this script using PM2.

kurt

@yawns
my first step was to make this start script following the instructions.
the mm.sh with the script cd ~/MagicMirror DISPLAY=:0 npm start is now in my /home/pi folder.
When I try to start the mm by npm start I get this (the mirror is not appearing):

{ Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::8080
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
    at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1049:20)
    at Server._listen2 (net.js:1253:14)
    at listen (net.js:1289:10)
    at net.js:1399:9
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:77:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:592:11)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:402:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:157:9)
  code: 'EADDRINUSE',
  errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
  syscall: 'listen',
  address: '::',
  port: 8080 }

Thank you

yawns

EADDRINUSE means, there is another process running and listening on port 8080
It looks like the magicmirror somehow is running already.

kurt

@yawns
By now the PM2 does its work! Great!
When I put the pi away from electricity and then start the pi again, PM2 starts the mirror :slight_smile:
But when I make some changes in Edit modulesor Einstellungen, save them, the changes are not shown, also after restarting the mirror but I get Error!also after restarting the mirror.
So by now some features work :slight_smile: some still need some time or a little push…
Thank you

pepemujica

Hi @mochman !
Is there any chance to change the caption that it is shown of each module?
For example, I’ve got 2 clocks modules, so I can see what time is it in 2 different countries. But when I go to the Remote control I see 2 “Clocks” and don’t know which is the clock I’m hiding or showing until I press the boton.
Is it possible to change the caption in the control?

Kind regards