Total Beginner - MM2 with MacMini

[trividar]

@sdetweil So I have tried to get your module to work, but unfortunately without success. Could you please help me?
So what I have done:

1. Cloned motion-project into my folder Mirror (there are now two folder, MagicMirror and motion)

2. Created motion.conf and made those changes:

# Command to be executed when an event starts. (default: none)
# An event starts at first motion detected after a period of no motion defined by event_gap
; on_event_start ‎⁨/Users/..../Mirror/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion start

# Command to be executed when an event ends after a period of no motion
# (default: none). The period of no motion is defined by option event_gap.
; on_event_end /Users/..../Mirror/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion end

3. Configured my ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js file:

	{
    module: 'MMM-SleepWake',
    delay:  1,               // default (one minute just for testing)
    source: 'external'
    
},

4. Started my MM without error, but SleepWake don’t do anything my MM just shows everything without going to sleep!

So did I miss something? (My hardware: Mac Mini (late 2012) Monitor over HDMI connected.
Thank you!

[sdetweil]

@trividar I need to know how to turn off display,
So we need mode:

See the readme

I have only three modes at the moment, hide ( hide all modules, don’t turn off display), dpms (use the dpms commands), and pi( which uses the pi only tvservice command)

I would try mode: ‘hide’ first.

I don’t know how to turn off/andon the Mac display.

[sdetweil]

researching, i found supposedly

pmset displaysleepnow

should work

it does not on my mac virtual machine…

does it work on real mac?

man pmset 

should show the help for this

displaysleepnow - causes display to go to sleep immediately.

[sdetweil]

@sdetweil

using MMM-SleepWake with mode: ‘Hide’ works (any case is allowed)

executing the external script wakes up

/Users/.../MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SleepWake/external_motion start

that is like what u have configured.

you should see the camera motion events in /var/log/motion/motion.log
(motion has to be running of course)

[trividar]

@sdetweil So do I understand it right, I have to add mode in the config.js file like this:

	{
    module: 'MMM-SleepWake',
    delay:  1,               // default
    source: 'external',
    mode: ‘Hide’


},

and I have to start motion separately from MM is that right, if yes how?

[sdetweil]

@trividar yes, and yes.

I start the motion program as part of the little script to start mm.

Short term just type

sudo motion &