Initial Setup Q's and Some Doc Feedback

dsegel

@ember1205 There are three locations where the screensaver might be starting from, and only one of them is actually run (I believe the first found in this order):

/home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

Raspbian recently changed to not having the first one, so the second is now the preferred method.

sdetweil

@dsegel thx… already in the updated installer and the screensaver fixer scripts

ember1205

@dsegel said in Initial Setup Q's and Some Doc Feedback:

@ember1205 There are three locations where the screensaver might be starting from, and only one of them is actually run (I believe the first found in this order):

/home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

Raspbian recently changed to not having the first one, so the second is now the preferred method.

So… None of that works. The ONLY way I could get the screensaver to shut off was to do:

sudo apt install xscreensaver

And then run the Screensaver Preferences setup and set it to disabled. Anything else I tried ultimately allowed the screen to go blank (black) after about 15 minutes.

sdetweil

@ember1205 thanks… I wished we had worked on it a little more…

i have a script that just does setting screensaver off…

haven’t had it fail on anything in a while… just tested Zorin OS. it worked properly

ember1205

@sdetweil said in Initial Setup Q's and Some Doc Feedback:

@ember1205 thanks… I wished we had worked on it a little more…

i have a script that just does setting screensaver off…

haven’t had it fail on anything in a while… just tested Zorin OS. it worked properly

I’m going to try a fresh build and will use your script to see how it fares on this exact version of Raspbian…

sdetweil

@ember1205 k… let me know

ember1205

I have started my new build from scratch and used your install script.

There are a number of ‘vulnerability’ warnings that show, and I’m curious if I should actually try and repair them with the suggested npm commands or not.

Also, so far, the screensaver does seem to be disabled, but I haven’t yet jumped into the MM configuration to put in place the same modules I had been using on the other setup as of yet.

sdetweil

@ember1205 yes, the vulnerability warnings are troublesome… they usually cannot be all resolved, and some modules fixes force changes that break applications using them. i prefer NOT to attempt to resolve the problems…

screensaver…

can u show/send me the ~/install.log

my email is the same userid as here on gmail

ember1205

install starting  - Fri Dec 20 08:32:44 EST 2019
installing on armv7l processor system
the os is Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster
Updating packages ...
Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease Get:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB] Get:3 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buste
r/main armhf Packages [13.0 MB] Fetched 13.0 MB in 15s (852 kB/s) Reading package lists...
apt-get update  completed ok
apt upgrade result =rc=0 Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  point-rpi
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Installing helper tools ...
Check current Node installation ...
Node currently installed. Checking version number.
Minimum Node version: v10.1.0
Installed Node version: v10.15.2
No Node.js upgrade necessary.
Check current NPM installation ...
NPM currently installed. Checking version number.
Minimum npm version: V6.0.0
Installed npm version: V5.8.0
npm should be upgraded.
Installing npm ...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
npm is already the newest version (5.8.0+ds6-4).
npm set to manually installed.
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  point-rpi
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
upgrading npm to latest
/usr/local/bin/npm -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
/usr/local/bin/npx -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js
+ npm@6.13.4
added 430 packages from 854 contributors in 42.042s
npm installation Done! version=V6.13.4
Cloning MagicMirror ...
Cloning MagicMirror Done!
Installing dependencies ...
Dependencies installation Done!
setting up initial config.js
Check plymouth installation ...
Splashscreen: Checking themes directory.
Splashscreen: Create theme directory if not exists.
Splashscreen: Changed theme to MagicMirror successfully.
install and setup pm2
pm2 not installed, installing
pm2 install result /usr/local/bin/pm2 -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 /usr/local/bin/pm2-dev -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2-dev /usr/local/bin/pm2-docker -> /usr/lo
cal/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2-docker /usr/local/bin/pm2-runtime -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2-runtime npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@2.1.2 (node_
modules/pm2/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arc
h":"arm"}) + pm2@4.2.1 added 207 packages from 202 contributors in 38.506s
get the pm2 platform specific startup command
startup command = sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

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                          Runtime Edition

        PM2 is a Production Process Manager for Node.js applications
                     with a built-in Load Balancer.

                Start and Daemonize any application:
                $ pm2 start app.js

                Load Balance 4 instances of api.js:
                $ pm2 start api.js -i 4

                Monitor in production:
                $ pm2 monitor

                Make pm2 auto-boot at server restart:
                $ pm2 startup

                To go further checkout:
                http://pm2.io/


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[PM2] Init System found: systemd
Platform systemd
Template
[Unit]
Description=PM2 process manager
Documentation=https://pm2.keymetrics.io/
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=pi
LimitNOFILE=infinity
LimitNPROC=infinity
LimitCORE=infinity
Environment=PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Environment=PM2_HOME=/home/pi/.pm2
PIDFile=/home/pi/.pm2/pm2.pid
Restart=on-failure

ExecStart=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 resurrect
ExecReload=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 reload all
ExecStop=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 kill

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Target path
/etc/systemd/system/pm2-pi.service
Command list
[ 'systemctl enable pm2-pi' ]
[PM2] Writing init configuration in /etc/systemd/system/pm2-pi.service
[PM2] Making script booting at startup...
[PM2] [-] Executing: systemctl enable pm2-pi...
[PM2] [v] Command successfully executed.
+---------------------------------------+
[PM2] Freeze a process list on reboot via:
$ pm2 save

[PM2] Remove init script via:
$ pm2 unstartup systemd
pm2 startup command done
configure the pm2 config file for MagicMirror
start MagicMirror via pm2 now
save MagicMirror pm2 config now
disable screensaver via lxsession
We're ready! Run pm2 start MagicMirror from the ~/MagicMirror directory to start your MagicMirror.
install completed - Fri Dec 20 08:59:08 EST 2019

ember1205

Some additional notes:

The screensaver settings appear to have been set in the /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart file
No settings have been adjusted in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
The mouse pointer auto remove configuration has not been completed, but there appears to be no issue with the pointer remaining on the screen once Electron loads
There was no change made to the system to disable power saving on the WLAN interface - as a result, the interface seemingly “could” go into powersave mode and affect network connectivity (I have not yet experienced an issue with this)