Making changes without stopping MM

[jtmoore81]

I"m starting to get things up and running with MM. I do have a question. Is there a way you can develop or make changes to the config file without having to stop the MM, then make the changes, then restart the system?

Thanks,

[idoodler]

@jtmoore81 Not really. Do you use pm2?

[sharmstr]

If you have a keyboard attached you can Ctrl-R

[idoodler]

@sharmstr That’ll only apply the changes to the UI, not to the underlaying node modules.

[jtmoore81]

@idoodler I haven’t installed it on this machine…I guess I should. Thanks.

[sharmstr]

Right. The OP specified the config file not modules so I assumed that’s all they wanted.

[idoodler]

@jtmoore81 Well, this mirror is running pm2 there should be a watcher task running. Try to execute pm2 list to see if your MagicMirror is handled by it.

[idoodler]

@sharmstr Yeah, I always prefere to restart the whole MagicMirror using pm2 restart MagicMirror. Also pm2 is watching the config.json file for any changes and will execute the restart the MagicMirror automatically.

[sharmstr]

@idoodler Totally agree, but for css and location changes, ctrl r saves a ton of time.

[idoodler]

@sharmstr Yep, thats true.

• Change *.css or Javascript file => Just reload the Webinterface (ctrl + r)
• Change config.json => Reload the Webinterface will do it 90%, else restart MagicMirror