MMM-PIR Busy Issue

[siujd2001]

Upon fresh startup, rpm run start:wayland works as intended

• MagicMirror starts and all modules appear to work as intended
• MMM-Pir reads sensor and refreshes countdown timer as desired

After control-Q to stop the MagicMirror, each successive operation of npm run start:wayland returns error “PIR Error Detected: Error: ‘GPIO busy”

• Log shows [ERROR] [MMM-Pir] [LIB] [PIR] Error: ‘GPIO Busy’
• MagicMirror works, including all other modules except MMM-Pir

Sensor AMR312 connected to 3v power (Pin 1), Ground (Pin 6), and GPIO21 (Pin 40)

Current config.js settings

module: ‘MMM-Pir’,
   position: ‘top_left’,
   config: {
       debug: false,
       Display: {
    timeout: 60 * 1000,
           animate: true,
          style: 1,
           colorFrom: “#FF0000”,
           colorTo: “#00FF00”,
//         mode: 1,
//     mode: 7,
    mode: 8,
           counter: true,
           lastPresence: true,
           lastPresenceTimeFormat: “LL H:mm”,
    availability: false,
//         availability: true,
           autoDimmer: false,
          xrandrForceRotation: “normal”,
          wrandrForceRotation: “normal”,
          wrandrForceMode: null,
          waylandDisplayName: “wayland-0”,
//     waylandDisplayName: “HDMI-A-1”,
           relayGPIOPin: 0,  //<-- default was 0
    ddcutil: {
      powerOnCode: “01”,
      powerOffCode: “04”,
      skipSetVcpCheck: false
    }
     },
     Pir: {
  mode: 1,
        gpio: 21
//   gpio: 4 // <–connected to 4
}

[siujd2001]

on boot, gpioinfo shows “GPIO21” unused input active-high. first start of npm run start:wayland works as intended.

After CTRL-Q, gpioinfo shows “GPIO21” “lg” input active-high [used pull-down]. Successive npm run start:wayland shows GPIO Busy error.

[redfishbluefish]

@siujd2001 in your config you have:

Pir: {
  mode: 1,
  gpio: 21
//   gpio: 4 // <–connected to 4
}

Did you try with mode: 0 ?

Mode 1 uses an external python script and since that’s an external executable, there’s always a chance that the script has locked up the GPIO so when you start MMM-Pir again, it tries to start a new version of the script.

[siujd2001]

@redfishbluefish

Switching to mode:0 does now appear to work, in that there is no gpio error and ctrl-q and restarts don’t throw an error. So that’s great! Thank you.

Screen blanks but does not turn all the way off, so that’s still an issue.

[redfishbluefish]

@siujd2001 you hadn’t mentioned anything about screen.

I recently switched to using start:wayland also and found that in MMM-Pir, the ddcutil mode worked best. Screen control in general seems to vary on RPi depending on the monitor you have.

[siujd2001]

@redfishbluefish

Thank you. I will look at ddcutil mode next and update.