pm2 doesnt work with crontab

keineAhnung123

With

sudo nano /etc/crontab

and

30 16   * * *   pi      /home/pi/.config/nvm/versions/node/v10.23.0/bin/node /home/pi/.config/nvm/versions/node/v10.23.0/bin/pm2 stop mm

it seems to work :)

sdetweil

@keineahnung123 i don’t think u need those paths now

keineAhnung123

@sdetweil

45 16   * * *   pi      pm2 stop mm

doesnt work. I have to set the paths.

I think there went something wrong when i upgraded to buster.
I had a shellscript with

cd ~/MagicMirror && npm start

which worked fine and after the upgrade to buster i have to use

cd ~/MagicMirror && /home/pi/.config/nvm/versions/node/v10.23.0/bin/npm start

otherwise it says “npm: not found”

Same seems to be with crontab…

sdetweil

@keineahnung123 looks like u need to reinstall nvm

keineAhnung123

@sdetweil said in pm2 doesnt work with crontab:

@keineahnung123 looks like u need to reinstall nvm

nvm or npm?

sdetweil

@keineahnung123 nvm

Assassins

@keineahnung123
Hello, i Can send you a script om monday, where you make backup to a small .img and where is restart you MagicMirror on the same time.

plainbroke

@Assassins
I would like to see this script. Please.

plainbroke

This is all I use in my crontab -e
15 07 * * * pm2 start mm
30 21 * * * pm2 stop all
Shuts MM down at 9:30 pm
Starts MM backup at 7:15 am
EVERYDAY.
I have a Black background color and the bar at the bottom using black background which makes it look like the screen is off basically.
That way it doesn’t flood the room with light at night.
Also less read / writes to the ssd drive I use for my MM.

plainbroke

@sdetweil
My old crontab does not work in debian 12 aka bookworm
Is there something i need to add to it to get it to work again?
Really liked how it worked and the fact that I was getting a fresh restart of mm every morning…

15 07 * * * pm2 start mm
30 21 * * * pm2 stop all

Tried this too.

15 07 * * * pi  pm2 start mm
30 21 * * * pi  pm2 stop all