Auto start does not work

greda

Hello,
I have a little problem. I use PM2 to do an auto start but it does not work. I followed the tutorial: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror
I need to manually start: pm2 start mm.sh
Thank you for your help.

tomyboy96

Here you have the solution!

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4499/pm2-do-not-start-at-bootup-on-my-rpi-2-works-fine-on-my-rpi-3/9

Good Luck!

greda

Hi

I tried this procedure but it did not work. I still have the same automatic restart problem.
Thank you.

shbatm

See my previous post here: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1094/pm2-mm2-not-starting-on-start-up/20

This method may help you:

Set pm2 to startup using systemd with user pi and home directory /home/pi

sudo pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

And then use pm2 save to save the state.

greda

Hi
I followed instructions now it works and I figured out how it works.
THank you so much

thammanitn

I installed Nodejs 9.8.0 on my raspberry Pi 3 model B before run the installation script for raspberry.
MagicMirror does not autostart until I found a fix on internet:
sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

ntmatter

@greda, I was able to figure a solution I’d sort of seen elsewhere to this exact issue, as I was having the same problem. Created an account to document the solution as this is the first thread that comes up when searching for a solution.

On a completely clean installation, and copy/pasting the terminal commands to install, I could get MM running just fine using pm2, but it would not auto-start. As it turns out, I missed a part of the auto-start instructions, and this caused the problem. Here’s my solution:

Look for the step “Starting PM2 on Boot”
Command is “pm2 startup”
There’s an instruction line there that’s easy to miss, which is this: "PM2 will now show you a command you need to execute."
IN THE TERMINAL, there is an output to the “pm2 startup” command when it’s done running saying that you need to copy and then re-paste to sent environmental variables
Copy/paste the output text from “pm2 startup” out of, then back into, Terminal
Proceed with the rest of the auto-start instructions as documented

This cleanly and easily solved the issue for me - it’s an easy step in the instructions to miss as it’s the only one where you need to do something with the output of the setup commands.

sdetweil

@ntmatter you can also run the fixuppm2 script from my automation library listed as alternative in the mm doc

see https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts