<![CDATA[Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods]]>I noticed that after long sleep cycles (mostly overnight), the monitor turns on with detected movement (PIR sensor), but MagicMirror itself is just a black screen with my mouse cursor. I have to restart MagicMirror with alt + f4 to load properly after the long sleep. Has anyone had a problem like this? The mirror detects the motion just fine, but I lose everything on the screen when it awakes. Thanks!

https://i.imgur.com/pRrLsnw.jpg

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/13456/black-screen-only-with-cursor-visible-when-waking-mirror-with-mmm-pir-sensor-after-long-sleep-periodsRSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 19:11:31 GMTWed, 12 Aug 2020 20:41:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:59:46 GMT]]>@sdetweil

Thanks! I must have lost that file somewhere. Ill get that added and see if I still have that problem.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80343https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80343Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:59:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:57:07 GMT]]>@Matthew replied

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80342https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80342Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:57:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:54:15 GMT]]>@sdetweil

sent! Thanks again!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80341https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80341Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:54:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:57:21 GMT]]>@Matthew u can mail them to me. same user ID on gmail

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80340https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80340Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:57:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:50:11 GMT]]>@sdetweil

Im trying to reply with the logs, but it’s getting flagged as spam

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80337https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80337Wed, 19 Aug 2020 16:50:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:10:51 GMT]]>@Matthew so, you can’t use it with the npm start…

as I said in the prior post, if you use pm2, then restart mm after adding the logging module (pm2 restart 0) and then see the logs with pm2 logs

pm2 logs --lines=100

or u can direct edit the logs in ~/.pm2/logs

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80291https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80291Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:10:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:08:21 GMT]]>@sdetweil its been a while since I set all of this up, but pm2 is the auto launch right? If so then yeah it always launches automatically

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80290https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80290Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:08:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:09:22 GMT]]>@Matthew >[2020-08-15 17:22:14.668] [ERROR] Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:8080
that happened on the 15th within 2 seconds of starting…

is that the right log?

that says something is already running … do you normally use pm2 to launch MM?

do pm2 status

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80277https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80277Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:09:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:02:44 GMT]]>@sdetweil Thank you! I got the error again today, and this is what the logs said.

magicmirror@2.12.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

[2020-08-15 17:22:12.919] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.12.0
[2020-08-15 17:22:12.936] [LOG] Loading config …
[2020-08-15 17:22:12.946] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.105] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.108] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-Logging
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.110] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.112] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.113] [LOG] No helper found for module: currentweather.
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.113] [LOG] No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.918] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.919] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.925] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.926] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-Wallpaper
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.975] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.976] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-MyWastePickup
[2020-08-15 17:22:13.976] [LOG] No helper found for module: calendar_monthly.
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.046] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.047] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-MyCalendar
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.098] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.099] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-PIR-Sensor
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.100] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.394] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 …
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.420] [LOG] Server started …
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.422] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-Logging
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.433] [LOG] 2020-08-15T17:22:14 Module helper started for MMM-Logging (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Logging/node_helper.js:19 Class.start)
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.435] [LOG] Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.436] [LOG] Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.438] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-Wallpaper
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.441] [LOG] 2020-08-15T17:22:14 Starting node helper for: MMM-Wallpaper (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Wallpaper/node_helper.js:33 Class.start)
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.447] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-MyWastePickup
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.449] [LOG] 2020-08-15T17:22:14 Starting node_helper for module: MMM-MyWastePickup (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-MyWastePickup/node_helper.js:10 Class.start)
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.450] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-MyCalendar
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.452] [LOG] 2020-08-15T17:22:14 Starting node helper for: MMM-MyCalendar (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-MyCalendar/node_helper.js:19 Class.start)
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.453] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-PIR-Sensor
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.453] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …
Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/fonts.conf”, line 100: unknown element “blank”
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.665] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception…
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.668] [ERROR] Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:8080
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1226:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1274:12)
at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.doListen [as callback] (net.js:1413:7)
at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:65:10) {
code: ‘EADDRINUSE’,
errno: ‘EADDRINUSE’,
syscall: ‘listen’,
address: ‘127.0.0.1’,
port: 8080
}
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.682] [ERROR] MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.683] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
[2020-08-15 17:22:14.717] [LOG] Launching application.
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
[2020-08-15 17:22:43.588] [LOG] Shutting down server…

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80276https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80276Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:02:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:57:07 GMT]]>@Matthew install this module
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Logging

note that this is a modified version of this module, written by someone else… but I needed to do similar debugging a while back

make its module entry in config.js the top of the list, like this

modules: [
        {
            module: 'MMM-Logging',
            config: {
                       echoRemote:false,
            }
        },
// other modules
    ]

let everything else default

this will collect all the browser logging and console logging together with timestamps…

then start mm like this

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile 2>&1

or use pm2
(all the logging info will be saved in the pm2 logs)

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80151https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80151Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:57:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 02:05:08 GMT]]>@sdetweil I remember that I have some problem with an npm library with it (before I start to code)
I don’t remember how I solve it

After you can try my pir module if you want

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80120https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80120Thu, 13 Aug 2020 02:05:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 01:55:31 GMT]]>@Matthew hmm. let me think about another debug approach.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80119https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80119Thu, 13 Aug 2020 01:55:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 01:45:09 GMT]]>@sdetweil It says that devTools was disconnected from the page. Once page is reloaded, DevTools will automatically reconnect

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80118https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80118Thu, 13 Aug 2020 01:45:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:11:48 GMT]]>@sdetweil next time I get the black screen I’ll take a look!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80116https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80116Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:11:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen (only with cursor visible) when waking mirror with MMM-PIR-Sensor after long sleep periods on Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:10:20 GMT]]>@Matthew open the developers window ctrl-shift-i and select the console tab and scroll up to see any errors.

black screen usually means some code running in the browser died

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80115https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80115Wed, 12 Aug 2020 21:10:20 GMT