Stop the screensaver!

Mykle1 · Mar 6, 2019, 2:53 AM

I’m not seeing this behavior at all. You can clearly see that I have xscreensaver running with the “Screen Saver DIsabled” but I can’t reproduce what it happening to you. Lucy responds normally and no black screen issue. If you say “SHOW MODULES” does Lucy show them?

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Edit: Something seems to be amiss. The forum isn’t allowing me to post an image at the moment.

Picture below.

Mykle1 · Mar 6, 2019, 2:52 AM

Anthony · Mar 6, 2019, 7:31 AM

@Mykle1
Thank you for your reply. I haven’t try to see if Lucy works when I see the black screen because I can’t see the “Say, ‘Hello Lucy’” message and because of the latency problems I have I don’t know when it recognizes the keyword and wait for commands. My guess is that it will work but when I am finished with my mirrorsetup I will hung it on the wall so I won’t have mouse and keyboard connected to move or press a button for the mirror to show. Also the black screen appears not only in the standby mode. Last night I left the mirror showing my page 1 modules and in the morning I saw the black screen again. Moved the mouse and evertything showed up.

sdetweil · Mar 6, 2019, 5:53 PM

@Anthony said in Stop the screensaver!:

Moved the mouse and evertything showed up.

that means screensaver kicked in… MM doesn’t do module visibility by mouse movement…

Anthony · Mar 6, 2019, 5:53 PM

@sdetweil
I agree. But it doesn’t happen when I have voice disabled in my config. And I realized that it also doesn’t happen with voice enabled and MMM-ImageSlideShow showing my pics. Maybe because the pictures change every 10 seconds. But if I have voice enabled and MM shows only clock, calendar, weather etc after 30 minutes screen goes black.

sdetweil · Mar 6, 2019, 5:57 PM

@Anthony and if MM is not running at all, what happens?

I run voice, and imageslideshow and don’t see this. If I shut down MM, screen will stay in forever

Anthony · Mar 8, 2019, 11:58 AM

@sdetweil
Mine too. If MM is shut down my screen is always on. This also happen if modules with movement are shown in the MM like MMM-ImageSlideShow which have pictures rotating. My screen goes black only when I have modules like clock,calendar,forunecookie,rfacs etc shown. I don’t know if a specific module cause this. For example I now have my MM on for 5 days without black screen and the modules shown are clock, calendar, stats, compliments, news, pictures and weather. If I hide pictures module or replace it with rfacts for example in about half an hour I will get the screensaver black screen.

Anthony · Mar 12, 2019, 7:52 AM

Update.
Last 3-4 days my MM was running just fine without screensaver appears. Last night it happened again so I restart MM in dev mode to see if I find an error after the the screensaver’s black screen. When I moved the mouse (after some time the screensaver had appeared) the screen was white and in dev console I had a message saying websocket disconnected or something like that. Usually when I moved the mouse after the screensaver and without the dev tools enabled the black screen dissapears and I get my MM screen back. This time was different. I’ll try to upload a screenshot when I get home.

sdetweil · Mar 12, 2019, 10:40 AM

usually when u see that the MM runtime has crashed for some reason… even the debug console is gone

I haven’t found a way to debug what has happened… I see this occasionally…

Anthony · Mar 13, 2019, 9:36 AM

This is getting too weird. Yesterday I had the MM running in dev mode and after I saw the screensaver I moved the mouse and everything came back as normal and no errors in the console. I don’t know why this happens not all the time and with different characteristics everytime.