Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Minimalist MagicMirror [Fast Boot, ReadOnly, ClientOnly, RPi3B+]
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u might consider some battery backup mechanism, to allow you to shutdown gracefully, and resume
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@sdetweil thought about it but with the ratio of time that the light/power is on to the time the light/power is off being as it is. i dont think thats a solution since any battery pack will run out of juice eventually when you pull more than you put in.
i thought id try running read only first but if it doenst work guess i could get a small ups board to at least shutdown and wake up properly.
but right now boot time is a somewhat more important problem to me. sadly i do need network and wifi. and graphics. all not very optimal. ill see what i can do i guess. -
@CluelessGenius i was suggesting to use the battery to shutdown (suspend)… then no usage…
sort of like this
http://raspi-ups.appspot.com/en/index.jspthis would give the fastest restart time…
battery would recharge when power comes back on…
I have a battery bank that lasts a month or more…
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@sdetweil thanks i will think about it but nontheless id still have to boot up every time and therefore i need to figure out boot time
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@CluelessGenius go for SSD that’s how mine is booting
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@dazza120 not sure what you mean by that and usind an ssd sounds expensive for this kind of project and really like a hassle tto setup. is thze pay-off that good?
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alright so now i have my server running and working on a windows notebook following the guide on this forum.
i had problems getting mm to run on stretch lite and noticed how the instructions called for full stretch so i switched. now technically its running.
but the autostart only works when booting to desktop, which costs time.
pm2-pi.service in general eats too much damn time.
so back to console and scratch the pm2.
but i have yet to figure out how to run it from console at all. -
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@sdetweil well thanks but gtk keeps throwing warnings in my face about not being able to access display or something. and at this point i figure i dont need all this crap just a webbrowser opening a page on startup preferably from cli and as fast as possible. some ready-to-use solutions look promising. looking at fullpageos right now. some other kiosk tutorials also promising but most of them arent really paying attention to boot time as they assume a kiosk would just run all day.
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@CluelessGenius ok, you probably need to DISPLAY=:0
Then the npm start
