Mirror goes black after hours

[tbs86]

Hello.

So ever since ive had my mirror the mirror will always go blank after about 8-10 hours of being on. I did have a notification about updating Magicmirror software which i did and it did not fix the issue. then did some research about updating node.js which i did. None of these have fixed the mirror from going blank after several hours. When the mirror goes blank i am able to move the mouse around and see the cursor. Only way to fix it is to quit the program and restart it. Has anybody had this issue or know a work around to stop it going blank on me?

[sdetweil]

@tbs86 ia this on a pi?

I had to do this

https://wpitchoune.net/tricks/raspberry_pi3_increase_swap_size.html

and reboot

to stop my frequent black screens.

then I added this module to record more info

https://github.com/shbatm/MMM-Logging

[tbs86]

@sdetweil

Yes pi3 will try once i am home thanks for the help

[tbs86]

@sdetweil did what you said pie ran over night. Went to work and it was blank again. I think it’s something do to with one of my modules Google maps. I saw the command prompt and saw a error I believe.

[sdetweil]

@tbs86 ok, one step in the right direction

[tbs86]

@sdetweil anyway to confirm its the module?

[sdetweil]

@tbs86 are you using pm2?

if so, look in the ~/.pm2/logs folder MagicMirror.error.log

also the heavy way.

edit the config and add
disabled: true,

to the module you think it is, and then restart

[tbs86]

Sorry still new to this. Disable the module and see if this fixed the issue?

[sdetweil]

@tbs86 yes, that is another way…

[tbs86]

Ok will try and report back

[buzzkc]

If it was the MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic module that you’re seeing errors with, I had to comment out the console.log line noted in this commit, which fixed the black screen issue I was having. https://github.com/vicmora/MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic/pull/24/commits/90f51f6f7a155241a4371106ea3ca899b20a7380