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    StrIIker
    last edited by Oct 2, 2018, 4:24 PM

    Ahh, that’s the issue! The modules must get stuck and no longer refresh. Has anyone else run into this issue and found a cause / solution? My issue crops up more often than once per day and I’d prefer to get a permanent fix for this. I don’t have any unusual modules loaded (actually it has been happening from day one while I have been slowly working on it so this has been happening with a fresh install).

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      sdetweil @StrIIker
      last edited by Oct 2, 2018, 5:14 PM

      @striiker is this version 2.4.1?

      The update module was throwing an error causing the black screen.

      I would comment out that module

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        MadScientist @sdetweil
        last edited by Oct 2, 2018, 6:01 PM

        @sdetweil
        That didn’t help in my case, hence the work-around with the cronjob. But it’s true that everybody should first try to disable the update module in their config.

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          StrIIker @sdetweil
          last edited by Oct 2, 2018, 6:05 PM

          @sdetweil said in Magic Mirror Blanks Several Hours:

          @striiker is this version 2.4.1?

          The update module was throwing an error causing the black screen.

          I would comment out that module

          I am at the latest build (2.5.0) although I installed Magic Mirror from the previous version and have the update module running.

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            StrIIker @MadScientist
            last edited by Oct 2, 2018, 6:08 PM

            @madscientist said in Magic Mirror Blanks Several Hours:

            @sdetweil
            That didn’t help in my case, hence the work-around with the cronjob. But it’s true that everybody should first try to disable the update module in their config.

            I was unaware of the suggestion to kill the update module. I have removed it from my config and will monitor the status. Thank you for the suggestion (and @sdetweil )! Any other best practice suggestions which I should consider? I have just done the base install and modified weather icons / details and also installed Alexapi (yet to work on that module as I am still trying to understand if I should also install either MMM-Alexa or MMM-Awesome-Alexa too as I am not clear on how these all work).

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              StrIIker @MadScientist
              last edited by Oct 9, 2018, 2:32 PM

              @madscientist Could you please share what you use in your cronjob to reload the modules? Thanks!

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                MadScientist @StrIIker
                last edited by MadScientist Oct 9, 2018, 2:35 PM Oct 9, 2018, 2:34 PM

                @striiker 0 6 * * * pm2 reload mm
                It reloads my mm.sh script every day at 6am. Working perfectly fine for quite some time now.

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                  StrIIker @sdetweil
                  last edited by Oct 9, 2018, 2:35 PM

                  @sdetweil said in Magic Mirror Blanks Several Hours:

                  @striiker is this version 2.4.1?

                  The update module was throwing an error causing the black screen.

                  I would comment out that module

                  I’m in the same boat as @MadScientist in that my module rotation still dies necessitating a restart of the modules. Canceling the update check did improve the situation in that it apparently does not crash out as often.

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                    Graham Rich @sdetweil
                    last edited by Oct 9, 2018, 3:18 PM

                    @sdetweil So I’ve updated my MagicMirror today with NPM update and NPM upgrade and my mirror is now black when I load it. My Mirror is pretty busy with NNOA3, video window from MotionEye and a few of the UK train apps. I was going to thin it down to see if that fixes it but thought Id check if anyone else found a fix yet.

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                      Graham Rich
                      last edited by Oct 9, 2018, 3:31 PM

                      I’m not sure if my issue isnt an update failure. Im getting this message on upgrade

                      pi@pi:~/MagicMirror $ npm update

                      phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
                      node install.js

                      PhantomJS not found on PATH
                      Unexpected platform or architecture: linux/arm
                      It seems there is no binary available for your platform/architecture
                      Try to install PhantomJS globally
                      npm WARN grunt-yamllint@0.3.0 requires a peer of grunt@>=1.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
                      npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 (node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt):
                      npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install: node install.js
                      npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

                      • moment@2.22.2
                      • iconv-lite@0.4.24
                      • walk@2.3.14
                        added 5 packages from 11 contributors and audited 2316 packages in 40.649s
                        found 5 low severity vulnerabilities
                        run npm audit fix to fix them, or npm audit for details

                      phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt
                      node install.js

                      PhantomJS not found on PATH
                      Unexpected platform or architecture: linux/arm
                      It seems there is no binary available for your platform/architecture
                      Try to install PhantomJS globally

                      electron-chromedriver@1.8.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
                      node ./download-chromedriver.js

                      successfully dowloaded and extracted!
                      npm WARN grunt-yamllint@0.3.0 requires a peer of grunt@>=1.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
                      npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 (node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt):
                      npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: phantomjs-prebuilt@2.1.16 install: node install.js
                      npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

                      • spectron@3.8.0
                        removed 4 packages, updated 2 packages and audited 2311 packages in 42.884s
                        found 5 low severity vulnerabilities
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