How to autorun script on MagicMirror boot

[byte_me]

@sdetweil said in How to autorun script on MagicMirror boot:

@byte_me use pm2

pm2 start xxx.py
pm2 save

@BKeyport said in How to autorun script on MagicMirror boot:

I use PM2 and scripts to call the various external modules…

EG: buttons.sh, mm.sh and omx.sh

buttons.sh is a short script to launch python3 for buttons.py, my external button runner.
mm.sh is the startup per the old instructions found in the old docks.
omx.sh launches OMXplayer with a bunch of options.

I wouldn’t use two of 'em, if I could get pm2 to launch with command line options.

Thank you both, this seems to have solved the issue!

[kelly97129]

@BKeyport
Hello
Can you tell me or show me what your omx.sh and other scripts look like that you are running on pm2 because I am in raspi4 and buster updated and my MM is running hard and I don’t know why
thank you in advance

[sdetweil]

@kelly97129 if you run the

 top 

command, what process is most active?

[kelly97129]

@sdetweil
vncserver 3.6% ,squeezelite 13.9% and Xorg 4.5%

[BKeyport]

@kelly97129 Sure. PM2 is simply the best way I’ve found to manage what’s running automatically on my system.