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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
    Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.

    Modules stop work over time

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Troubleshooting
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    • M Offline
      McSorley
      last edited by

      Sounds to me like a hiccup on your network.

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        lali
        last edited by

        Well… nothing else on my network is hiccupy. Just those modules…

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          kckndrgn
          last edited by

          Is there anything in the logs? That would be first place I would start, maybe turning up the log level to get more detail.

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            lali
            last edited by

            I made a npm debug, if thats what you mean… Heres is some error, but I don’t know how to fix or if it is this making the troubles…

            0 info it worked if it ends with ok
            1 verbose cli [ ‘/usr/bin/nodejs’, ‘/usr/bin/npm’, ‘start’, ‘dev’ ]
            2 info using npm@3.10.6
            3 info using node@v6.4.0
            4 verbose config Skipping project config: /home/pi/.npmrc. (matches userconfig)
            5 verbose stack Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’
            5 verbose stack at Error (native)
            6 verbose cwd /home/pi
            7 error Linux 4.4.19-v7+
            8 error argv “/usr/bin/nodejs” “/usr/bin/npm” “start” “dev”
            9 error node v6.4.0
            10 error npm v3.10.6
            11 error path /home/pi/package.json
            12 error code ENOENT
            13 error errno -2
            14 error syscall open
            15 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’
            16 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’
            16 error enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
            16 error enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
            17 verbose exit [ -2, true ]

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              lali
              last edited by

              In mm-out.log I find this

              Whoops! There was an uncaught exception…
              MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
              If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

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                KirAsh4 Moderator @lali
                last edited by

                @lali said in Modules stop work over time:

                15 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’
                16 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’

                You are attempting to run it from the /home/pi folder instead of /home/pi/MagicMirror/ …

                A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                  lali @KirAsh4
                  last edited by

                  @KirAsh4 But why does it work at first and then not?

                  My mm.sh looks like this:

                  cd ~/MagicMirror
                  DISPLAY=:0 npm start

                  Where and how must I make a change?

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                    KirAsh4 Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Thing is, once it’s up and running, things just remain in memory and run. The only time it will restart is if the entire thing crashes. But you can check on that by typing in 'pm2 list' and look at the restarts column. If you are seeing a lot of restarts, then something else is going on that’s causing it to crash. Mine’s been running stable for the past almost 30 days now (I haven’t been active on my mirror with coding nor updates, life took over.)

                    How things stop, specifically data being requested, is if there is a momentary network issue that the task could not reach the internet. However, even that will rectify itself at the next poll … If I disconnect my rpi from the network, eventually things like the calendar, newsfeed, and weather will all stop responding. When I reconnect it, they will all eventually refresh and start working again. So I don’t know what could be causing yours to simply quit.

                    A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                      lali @KirAsh4
                      last edited by

                      @KirAsh4 The only restarts it shows is my manual restarts with pm2 restart mm command. Otherwise it does not crash. The modules just stop answer. And at the same time the news-ticker still works…

                      Could it be so that the memory is overflooded somehow?

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                      • KirAsh4K Offline
                        KirAsh4 Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Not unless you have a bunch of other stuff running on your rpi. What happens if you run only the default configuration and modules? Do any of those stop responding after a while, and what exactly happens, what does the display say or do?

                        A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                          lali @KirAsh4
                          last edited by

                          @KirAsh4 The only thing i run besides MM is Pi-hole.

                          The Scrobbler-plugin has never lived for a longer time. It works for a few songs, maybe an album and when a song ends it just disappears. No error messages or something on the screen. If i pm2 restart mm it again, it works for a few songs again.

                          When RandomPhoto stops working, it freezes on an image, like it comes to an end of a stack. (Maybe it does?)

                          Clock and news seems to work all the time.

                          Could it be that file package.json?

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                            KirAsh4 Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Yeah, neither of those are default packages (that I could help you with.) Perhaps this is something you need to take to the respective authors and have them help you track down what the problem could be. It sounds like MM and its default modules are working just fine, so this is something that happens outside of it (specifically with those modules you mentioned.)

                            As a side query: why do you need pi-hole on the rpi? None of the default modules display ads, unless you’re actively using the rpi as a desktop computer and browse the internet with it.

                            A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                              lali @KirAsh4
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                              @KirAsh4 Well, I suppose that is my next step then…

                              I use it to block out ads throughout my network. I set it as a dns in the router. It filters ads quiet nice. From web and in apps.

                              The MM install was to make use of my display I bought with some nifty information.

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                                KirAsh4 Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Is it possible that pi-hole is seeing those network queries (from those modules) and actively blocking them till you reset the whole thing again?

                                A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                                  lali @KirAsh4
                                  last edited by

                                  @KirAsh4 I dont think so, I do not reset the pi-hole, i only reset MM.

                                  If the pi-hole were to blame, I should not be able to reach last.fm or the source where I load images from. And it should not work for at first and then all of a sudden not…

                                  Maybe something just times out…?

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                                    KirAsh4 Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    Those are questions for the authors. If it were me though, I would disable everything from running on the rpi, or start with a completely clean setup (including a reformat and reload of the Raspbian image), and see where that takes you. But that’s me. I like to eliminate any and all possible causes. It’s also why I have multiple rpis sitting on my desk … I can easily and quickly spin one up from scratch.

                                    A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                                      lali @KirAsh4
                                      last edited by

                                      @KirAsh4 I only have one at home. And one at work… But I will soon lay my hands on some more.

                                      Well, thanks for your input. I’ll dig deeper…

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                                        lali
                                        last edited by

                                        Fresh error log

                                        { Error: socket hang up
                                        at TLSSocket.onHangUp (_tls_wrap.js:1087:19)
                                        at TLSSocket.g (events.js:286:16)
                                        at emitNone (events.js:91:20)
                                        at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:185:7)
                                        at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:926:12)
                                        at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
                                        at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:122:9) code: ‘ECONNRESET’ }

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                                          lali
                                          last edited by lali

                                          I think i resolved the issue… It was related to my use of Pi-hole.
                                          I was using OpenDNS and according to logs in my router some connections were timed out or was unreachable. I changed it first to Google DNS and later to my ISPs DNS-severs. And, behold, no error in my pm2-logs (at least not at the moment) and the modules are up and running

                                          So, you were all on to something; @KirAsh4, @McSorley and @kckndrgn!

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