Auto Reload on Config File Change

[ember1205]

I have a script that I run every 15 minutes via cron that checks for updates to the config file. It compares the time and date stamp of the config file against the time and date stamp of the pid file from when MM was started. If the config file is newer, it restarts MM.

        if [ /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js -nt /home/pi/.pm2/pids/mm-0.pid ]; then
                /usr/bin/pm2 restart mm
        fi

[mjurgens]

What I have done to resolve this is installed the inotify-tools package and then setup a systemd service using the inotifywait command. This watches the config dir and on change triggers a “pm2 restart MagicMirror” command

[mjurgens]

Actually, now that I set up my own auto restart, the pm2 one or whatever was doing it to start with has started working again.

So now the question is - how do I disable the preconfigured built-in auto restart?

[sdetweil]

@mjurgens edit the installers.pm2_MagicMirror_json file, and remove the watch: line and the trailing comma from the prior line. then do

# remove old version, not editable
pm2 remove 0
# cleanup saved task repo
pm2 save
# start new app
pm2 start installers/p2_MagicMirror.json
# save  app in restart repo
pm2 save

[BKeyport]

@mjurgens can you explain the inotify setup? Sounds interesting.