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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    Mac CPU increases drastically and gets hot

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      JohnBachini @trividar
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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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      • StoffbeuteluweS Offline
        Stoffbeuteluwe Project Sponsor @trividar
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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.

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          trividar @JohnBachini
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          @JohnBachini it’s definitely the animated icons, because when i deactivate them the mac runs on max. 10 % cpu.

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            trividar @Stoffbeuteluwe
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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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            • StoffbeuteluweS Offline
              Stoffbeuteluwe Project Sponsor @trividar
              last edited by

              @trividar when I am at home I send a picture…
              no animated pictures

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                bhepler Module Developer @JohnBachini
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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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                • StoffbeuteluweS Offline
                  Stoffbeuteluwe Project Sponsor @trividar
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                  @trividar oh I forgot…Sorry
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