Mirror turning black after a while

[Alvinger]

@binog @FredJ @cyberdie @schlachtkreuzer6

Looking through the unirest dependencies it looks like it relies on express which may or may not make it sus eptible to the issues with electron.

To resolve this I replaced unirest with node-fetch and pushed the new version of MMM-ResRobot to github.

To upgrade cd to your MagicMirror directory and run the following commands:

git pull
npm remove unirest
npm install

Please post results in this thread!
Hope this resolves the issue.

[retroflex]

@Alvinger Thanks for the quick fix! :)

My first test…

1. “top” without ResRobot shows about 1% CPU when idle.
2. Added ResRobot (old version): “top” shows 100% CPU all the time.
3. Updated ResRobot, removed unirest, npm install: “top” now shows 1% CPU when idle. Yay!

Looks good so far. Too early to tell anything about memory leaks, but I will keep my mirror running and check tonight. Currently electron shows 18% mem used (for the 2 electron processes).

[retroflex]

Short lived happiness it seemed… After a few minutes CPU is now back at 100% and memory use increasing. :(

Also tested after reboot of my Pi3 with the same results.

This is my config:

		{
			module: "MMM-ResRobot",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "",
			config: {
				routes: [
					{from: "740015970", to: "740015568"},
				],
				updateInterval: 2 * 60 * 1000,	// Update every second minute.
				maximumEntries: 6,  // Number of departures to show on screen
				truncateAfter: 5,   // A value > 0 will truncate direction name at first space after  characters. 0 = no truncation
				apiKey: "*******"  // Your ResRobot apiKey
			}
		},

[Binog]

But still, I am not using ResRobot,. and do have the same problem, from time to time,…

[Alvinger]

@retroflex
I will dig up another respberry pi and try it out. My test environment is a dietpi vm which runs on a pc so I wouldn’t expect the cpu load to be representative of the load on the pi.

[FredJ]

I also dont think the issue is with ResRobot itself. But it is great that you are looking into it @Alvinger

[cyberdie]

no ResRobot running on my setup. Think the problem is electron itself.

[Alvinger]

I agree with others that the problem is most likely related to Electron and not module-specific but rather related to which module dependencies it has.

[thejoaovitor]

A solution, (not perfect) is to use MMM-WatchDog, it keeps an eye on your UI and quits app in case the UI crashes, combined with the PM2 process manager, MM2 will automaticly restart after a UI failure.

https://github.com/MichMich/MMM-WatchDog

[Kuhlemann]

The problem still seems to persist also with the newest version of MM. Maybe someone has found a real solution?
I will try out MMM-WatchDog meanwhile.