MMM-RAIN-MAP (new: version 2.x)

chassain 0

@Fozi the best way is to add disabled: true at each module one by one and restart mm beetwen

Stoffbeuteluwe

@Jalibu Hello, the module is very good but it only shows the time that has already passed and not the time that is yet to come…
can I change that is showing the next 2 hours

Jalibu

@Stoffbeuteluwe nope, the data provider only serves weather history

rubenix

@Fozi We’ve a MM setup with 10 pages on it (its more a Family panel than a mirror; so useful for us to keep activities, list and routines and important info for a daily basis)

Anyway the modules that matches yours:

default modules:

newsfeed,
alert,
updatenotification --> config disabled: true

Third Party modules:

MMM-AlexaControl,
MMM-Pages & MMM-page-indicator,
MMM-RemoteControl,
MMM-GroveGestures,
MMM-Tools,

Im pretty sure the rpi freezes due to RAIN-MAP animation itself and not because of any module interaction but am not 100% sure.
I’ve updated the module but nothing changes and mirror freezes if I show the RAIN-MAP (got it hidden on start and call it by alexaControl whenever I wanna show it).
If I disabled the module, never freezes (have it on for hours with no problems --> we usually shutdown the rpi when going to bed…If I enabled the module and make it visible on the mirror it freezes at some point (maybe minutes, maybe hours…but it freezes indeed). If I start the mirror (remember default RAIN-MAP not visible) and never show the RAIN-MAP never freezes. If I disable the module (disabled: true) in config cpu usage & temperature on the pi are fine but If I enable it goes up to 40-70% at some stages and temperature goes over 70ºC sometimes…(not good)
I increase value of animationSpeed on module config must say improves rpi performance (I’ve set it @800 and its fine for a longer period and maybe if we’re lucky the pi does not freeze). Could be the zoom in/out feature on module itself…don’t know as its hard to catch a useful log to look at. No error at all on pm2 logs.
Here my newbie contribution; hope we can found something as module looks nice on the Mirror!
I will keep an eye on this topic and, indeed, post it here if find something that helps…
Cheers!

rubenix

Also must to say that Ive a raspbian virtual machine on my vmware workstation where I do all my tests with module on it and never freezes; actually Ive got the beauties “MMM-ISS-Live” & “MMM-Earth-Live” that my raspi could not handle and works flawlessly on the VM…
BTW its a pi3B (not the B+) --> so maybe time to upgrade to Asus Tinker Board or pi 4 4GB…

chassain 0

@rubenix or pi 4 8GB. :) i have a lot of modules switching with the module mm pages and i have no problem with rain map (power on during 24h/24)

chassain 0

@chassain-0 i have a rasp pi4 4GB

rubenix

@chassain-0 yeah something more powerful indeed; the most the better.
anyway have no problem at all with any of my pages but when I switch to RAIN-MAP page (by alexa, gesture or automatically on rotation) i see the cpu usage when It shows on the mirror…
hardware upgrade coming soon…

chassain 0

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Jalibu

I think about pre-rendering the map animation once as gif image in the backend using phantom instead of live rendering on the frontend. I’ll test that when time allows…

rubenix

@Jalibu sounds nice!

Fozi

@rubenix thank you so much for your thorough and comprehensive analysis and feedback!
I will now disable the above mentioned 5 3rd party modules nd enablle them one by and check if they’d interfere with MMM-RAIN-MAP. I’ll keep you all posted!

rubenix

@Fozi 6 actually. i’ve posted pages & pages indicator @same line :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:

Fozi

@rubenix sorry, you’re right…my mistake. I just restarted MM and got an update notification for MMM-RAIN-MAP. I’ll pull that and test right away with the new version.

rubenix

@Fozi ok thanks, did not check the mirror today and dont know if i can pull the update; let me tuned mate!

Jalibu

I have a alpha version for a backend-generated (pre-rendered) map.
Are there any volunteers who would like to test it? (Please only people who can withstand high frustration :-D )

rubenix

@Jalibu I can test it out on a virtual machine running raspbian for you if that helps :winking_face:

chassain 0

@Jalibu i can again

Fozi

@rubenix I’ve disabled yesterday all 6 modules, but unfortunatelly the situation didn’t improve. The memory consumption was still increasing over the time and within 1-2 hrs. the MM froze. I guess I have to do the brute force method and disable all modules and enable them one by one.

Jalibu

The serverside prerendering works in theory. The recording is just 2-4 Megabytes and the playback on the frontend consumes nearly no additional computing resources.
The little problem is that prerendering is kind of ultra heavy :-D
My Raspi 3 takes more than a minute for that (with only a few additional modules running) and takes >60MB memory for that.
For those of you having problems due to limited resources with live rendering, the prerendering won’t be the answer I guess :-/