Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Mac CPU increases drastically and gets hot
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Hey @j-e-f-f maybe you can help me as the creator of the module ;o) is there a way to use the animated icons without killing my cpu? Thanks a lot!
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@trividar just as a test have you tried it with animation turned off, just to confirm it is the animation causing the problems. ?
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@trividar hey, I have a mac too, when I show on my mirror some moving object like video or spinning globe or something like that the Mac goes hot too.
When I show normal modules the Mac is warm but not hot that’s ok.
You can use the default weathermodule and change the icon with something you like, I have done this and it looks really cool. -
@JohnBachini it’s definitely the animated icons, because when i deactivate them the mac runs on max. 10 % cpu.
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@Stoffbeuteluwe Do you have some pics? do you use also with the default weather module animated icons?
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@trividar when I am at home I send a picture…
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@JohnBachini - I suspect it’s Electron. IIRC, it doesn’t support hardware acceleration for graphics. So all of the animation is done by the CPU.
As a test, you can start your mirror in server only mode and then open the mirror interface in a web browser. Firefox, Chrome & Edge all support hardware acceleration. Chromium might. See if that affects CPU usage and your temperature.
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@trividar oh I forgot…Sorry
