MMM-HomeAssistant

mirrorlover270

Would you see a chance to include a “sensor” that shows whether an update for a module is available? Right now the sensor on updates can only “hide” the update message on the mirror.

With an update sensor, I could get a message on my phone and at least trigger the update remotely with the MMM-Remote module.

Thanks anyway for this great module.

raymonvdm

I found a display (touchscreen) to setup a family dashboard and i`m making babysteps to get it going again after a long time of trying out MagicMirror

I did get this module to work and most of the buttons in HomeAssistant work, but since i`m using a GigabyteBrix debian12 pc the screen off and on does not work.

This however is working to get the screen on/off

apt install vbetool

root@debian:~# sudo vbetool dpms off
root@debian:~# sudo vbetool dpms on

root@debian:~# cat /etc/sudoers.d/magicmirror
magicmirror ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/vbetool

root@debian:~#

So i changed the on off command to

/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/vbetool dpms off
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/vbetool dpms on

But it stops working as soon as i start the MagicMirror using PM2 and i`m not sure why.

Are there any other options?

Lateadapter

I was directed from [MagicMirror Forum] Digest for 1/11/2026 to that discussion and I can show you some kind of alternative regarding Home Assistant controlled MagicMirror. It is using TouchKIO as a mirror client.
Recently I did upgrade my many years existing setup and I did summarize it here:
https://github.com/Lateadapter/TouchKIO-as-Kiosk-Application-for-MagicMirror

sdetweil

@raymonvdm can you show the log?

I always recommend testing with manual start after you make a module change

pm2 stop all
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start

if it comes up ok, ctrl-q, or alt-spacebar, c
then pm2 status
and pm2 start xxxx
where xxxx is the name or number on the row for your application

raymonvdm

@sdetweil

I found out that it stil asked for the user password when performing sudo. I had this statement in /etc/sudoers

magicmirror ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

And this in /etc/sudoers.d/magicmirror

magicmirror ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/vbetool

For now i removed the line in /etc/sudoers