Cronjob

CyruS1337

Good evening

I’d like to see my MagicMirror restart at a certain time each day. What should I enter in the crontrab? I have already tried x variants, but unfortunately it never worked.

27 17 * * * Command pm2 restart mm

The sudo reboot command works fine.

27 17 * * 5 sudo poweroff

garbleflux

@CyruS1337 said in Cronjob:

Good evening

I’d like to see my MagicMirror restart at a certain time each day. What should I enter in the crontrab? I have already tried x variants, but unfortunately it never worked.
27 17 * * * Command pm2 restart mm
The sudo reboot command works fine.
27 17 * * 5 sudo poweroff

Did you forget to write the full command? Try pm2 restart mm.sh
By the way: I prefere the online crontab generator (https://crontab-generator.org/). It’s very easy.
Regards Mike

CyruS1337

Thanks for the link, but it still does not work :(

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h  dom mon dow   command
#
#MONTAG BIS SONNTAG UM 19:55 MAGICMIRROR RESTART
55 19 * * * pm2 restart mm.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
#
#SAMSTAG REBOOT UM 12:00 MAGICMIRROR REBOOT
24 17 * * * sudo reboot
#

garbleflux

@CyruS1337 said in Cronjob:

Thanks for the link, but it still does not work :(

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h  dom mon dow   command
#
#MONTAG BIS SONNTAG UM 19:55 MAGICMIRROR RESTART
55 19 * * * pm2 restart mm.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
#
#SAMSTAG REBOOT UM 12:00 MAGICMIRROR REBOOT
24 17 * * * sudo reboot
#

Sounds strange. Maybe you first have to stop the pm2 process before restart, with pm2 stop mm.sh. Don’t forget to complete the line für den reboot am Samstag - sudo reboot >/dev/null 2>&1
regards Michael

MadScientist

Why do you want to restart MM? Maybe pm2 reload mmis the better option.

CyruS1337

@MadScientist said in Cronjob:

Why do you want to restart MM? Maybe pm2 reload mmis the better option.

Why … that’s actually a good question. The problem is that if I bring the screens for about 5-6 hours and then turn back on that no picture appears on the monitors. Therefore, I would like a regular restart of my MagicMirros.

MadScientist

Are you using the GoogleMapsTraffic module? In that case the pm2 reload mm will do. Or a simple Ctrl+R on the mirror. The cronjob should then look something like 55 19 * * * pm2 reload mm (mine is 0 6 * * * pm2 reload mm and it works flawlessly).

CyruS1337

@MadScientist said in Cronjob:

Are you using the GoogleMapsTraffic module? In that case the pm2 reload mm will do. Or a simple Ctrl+R on the mirror. The cronjob should then look something like 55 19 * * * pm2 reload mm (mine is 0 6 * * * pm2 reload mm and it works flawlessly).

Exactly, I use the modules GoogleMapsTraffi on these two monitors and these two monitors will not wake up after a while, if I turned off the monitors for several hours.

Then tonight I will try pm2 reload mm. Unfortunately, the command pm2 restart mm did not work. Then I’m curious.

MadScientist

Depennding on the other modules you’re using it might be good to reload MM more than once a day. In my case once is enough. Without reloading the screen turns black after more than one day. Depending on your setup it could be better to reload it twice or 4 times a day. In the end the reload is very quick and you won’t notice anything.

CyruS1337

Perfect, did not know that I can reload the MagicMirror. Have always made a restart in the past. I’ll give feedback this evening on whether the cronjob works with the pm2 reload mm command