I’ve given up trying to resolve this because I was able to make MMM-Carousel work for my purposes. For anyone wondering, my struggle with Carousel was configuring multiple instances of the default weather app—an “ignored” current weather instance to always remain on the screen and a forecast weather instance to appear on another page. I couldn’t make it work using the carouselId method. Instead, I duplicated the default weather module. With that done, I was easily able to ignore “weather” and put “weather2” on another page. BirdNET works perfectly and I’m all set.

Thanks again for your time!

And working fine on each page:

resume: function() { 
       this.updateTimer = setInterval(()=> {
           this.updateData();
       }, this.config.updateInterval);
       this.schedulePopInterval();
   },

You can comment that out and it should work as expected. When MMM-pages “resumes” the module, the module forces a refresh.

Using Carousel, I can ignore BirdNET, and it will stay in place and update properly (it doesn’t refresh every time the pages switch). Unfortunately, Carousel presents other issues unrelated to BirdNET (perhaps better saved for a separate post).

yes, we don’t have pages in MagicMirror, we can only hide or show. so pages, and carousel, like profileswitcher and facerecodnn, just show groups of modules and hide the rest.

BUT when shown after being hidden the modules usually refresh.

IF they have refresh cycles it will indeed get nutty. maybe force their cycle really long , longer than the pages cycle