[MMM-TouchButton] A module to add clickable buttons to send notifications or run commands

wishmaster270

@Sierra0815 Great to hear that. I developed the module a view years ago to provide buttons to toggle some modules (like snowfall) and to realize user presence notifications via remote connection.

BreanneDolphin

@wishmaster270 I am fairly new to MagicMirror, I have a touch screen without a keyboard, but I am unsure how to set the button up for it just to exit the MagicMirror and not reboot the whole thing? Could you help?

sdetweil

@BreanneDolphin how is MagicMirror started?

npm start
send a ctrl-q
to the MM UI

or pm2 on boot

pm2’s JOB is to keep the app running… if it ends, pm2 will restart it…
so then you will have to issue a command

pm2 stop x

where x is the name or number on the line for the app you want to stop
from the output of

pm2 status

like this

┌────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name                │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
├────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1  │ MagicMirror         │ default     │ 2.15.0  │ fork    │ N/A      │ 0      │ 27   │ stopped   │ 0%       │ 0b       │ sam      │ disabled │
│ 7  │ MagicMirror1        │ default     │ 2.26.0  │ fork    │ 0        │ 0      │ 9    │ stopped   │ 0%       │ 0b       │ sam      │ disabled │
│ 2  │ startspot           │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 7510     │ 20D    │ 418  │ online    │ 0%       │ 2.0mb    │ sam      │ disabled │
└────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

so on line id =1 or name = MagicMirror

BreanneDolphin

@sdetweil it’s just started with npm start

sdetweil

@BreanneDolphin so, then you have to run a command that can send a keystrokes to mm.
see xdotool