Losing display output after 5 minutes

sdetweil

@danjvd if you stop MagicMirror, does the screen turn off?

danjvd

@sdetweil I have not tried that. I will let you know later today of the outcome.

Thanks Sam!

Zoltan

@danjvd It sounds as if your screen saver wasn’t disabled correctly?

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Configuring-the-Raspberry-Pi

sdetweil

@zoltan if u run my install script it will turn off screensavers if u say yes.

also a separate script if u change your mind

we are still waiting to see if it’s mm related or not

danjvd

@sdetweil With MM turned off, the Pi keep display HDMI without issues. Are there any error logs that I should look at?

@Zoltan Thanks for the steps. I did complete this when I first created the MM pi over a year ago. It always a good thing to veirfy!

sdetweil

@danjvd ok so this means one of the modules you are using is turning off the display

can you do

grep module: ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js

to show us a list of the modules used

danjvd

@sdetweil said in Losing display output after 5 minutes:

grep module: ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js

Here are the modules that I have been using for the past 6 months before the issues started. I have not added/removed any modules after this setup, only updates.

  module: "alert",
  module: 'MMM-BackgroundSlideshow',
  module: "updatenotification",
  module: "clock",
  module: 'MMM-CalendarExt2',
  module: "MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast",

sdetweil

@danjvd weird.

so next I would disable one module at a time.
(not the defaults)

add

disabled:true,

after the module: line

danjvd

@sdetweil

Before I was able to start disabling modules, MM would not start this morning. There are the logs that I got from pm2:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'start' ]
2 info using npm@6.14.12
3 info using node@v10.24.1
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.17.1~prestart: magicmirror@2.17.1
6 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.17.1~start: magicmirror@2.17.1
7 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.17.1~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.17.1~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/bin:/bin
9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.17.1~start: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror
10 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.17.1~start: Args: [ '-c',
10 silly lifecycle   'DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js' ]
11 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.17.1~start: Failed to exec start script
12 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.17.1 start: `DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js`
12 verbose stack spawn ENOENT
12 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:48:18)
12 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
12 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
12 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
13 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.17.1
14 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
15 verbose Linux 5.10.63-v7l+
16 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
17 verbose node v10.24.1
18 verbose npm  v6.14.12
19 error code ELIFECYCLE
20 error syscall spawn
21 error file sh
22 error errno ENOENT
23 error magicmirror@2.17.1 start: `DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js`
23 error spawn ENOENT
24 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.17.1 start script.
24 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
25 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

danjvd

@sdetweil

Give you a little update after finding the error above. I have reinstalled dependency and built electron.

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install
cd ~/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/
node install.js

The reinstall came with the following warnings

npm WARN tsutils@3.21.0 requires a peer of typescript@>=2.8.0 || >= 3.2.0-dev || >= 3.3.0-dev || >= 3.4.0-dev || >= 3.5.0-dev || >= 3.6.0-dev || >= 3.6.0-beta || >= 3.7.0-dev || >= 3.7.0-beta but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@2.3.2 (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.3.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})

I restarted MM with npm start, now getting the following:

[24.11.2021 17:34.23.187] [ERROR] WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: Cannot find module 'valid-url'
Require stack:
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-CalendarExt2/node_helper.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js

I disable that mode and was able to get MM restarted. I’m guessing there is an issue with MMM-CalendarExt2.

sdetweil

@danjvd valid-url see
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/15778/fix-for-black-screen-in-2-16-and-later