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    MM very slow to charge

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      Canguingo
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      Hi everyone!

      I have installed the MagicMirror and I have noticed that when I type pm2 start mm it takes like 2 to 5 minutes to start the MM.

      I have version 2.31.0 and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3

      For the rest I am not familiar with programming, so very grateful for your assistance AND patience!

      Thanks in advance for any ideas how to solve this.

      Cheers!

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        sdetweil @Canguingo
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        @Canguingo how did you install MagicMirror?

        can you open a terminal window and do
        free -m

        so we can see memory usage. the latest raspberry pi os, bookworm , will need about 2.5g w MagicMirror running

        the hardware is only 1 g as i recall

        Sam

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          Canguingo @sdetweil
          last edited by

          @sdetweil Hi Sam, thanks!!

          This is what i got:
          total used free shared buff/cache available
          Mem: 906 592 65 38 345 314
          Swap: 511 278 233

          I believe it should be enough. I only use calendar, weather and a small solar PV module. Could it be that Electron takes too much memory?

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            sdetweil @Canguingo
            last edited by

            @Canguingo what os version (seems too small)
            do
            uname -a
            lsb_release -a

            Sam

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              Canguingo @sdetweil
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              @sdetweil

              This is what I got:

              Linux raspberrypi 6.12.25+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.25-1+rpt1 (2025-04-30) aarch64 GNU/Linux

              No LSB modules are available.
              Distributor ID: Debian
              Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
              Release: 12
              Codename: bookworm

              It could be the SD-card? (I believe it is 5 years old…)

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                sdetweil @Canguingo
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                @Canguingo you are actively swapping, 250-ish meg, all that goes on the sd card.

                surprised the memory use is as small as it is…

                mine is about 1.5gig on swap file…

                Sam

                How to add modules

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                  Canguingo @sdetweil
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                  @sdetweil ok thanks. So is there anything I could do?

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                    sdetweil @Canguingo
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                    @Canguingo on one of my slow systems i used a usb ssd stick

                    as the pi3 doesn’t support boot from usb, i found a way to boot from sd card, but run from the ssd stick.

                    ill have to find that again, been years

                    you could try s newer faster sd card, but they were designed for seldom write, frequent read

                    Sam

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                      Canguingo @Canguingo
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                      Ok thanks. i think i will sruvive with these 2 to 4 minutes, maybe somewhere in the future I’ll change the sd-card.
                      Do you think I will need to re-install everything again if changing the sd? I guess so…
                      Since it took me like 2 days to install this, i’ll wait and live with it…

                      thanks anyway!

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                        sdetweil @Canguingo
                        last edited by sdetweil

                        @Canguingo if you have a usb adapter for an sd card, linux provides a command to copy disk to disk, dd

                        if you use the scripted installer it shouldn’t take more than an hour
                        https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

                        use my backup/restore scripts to save the MagicMirror config and modules list . good for moving to new sd card, machine

                        https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore

                        Sam

                        How to add modules

                        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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