Electron CPU usage

[Mykle1]

@loctruong96 said in Electron CPU usage:

Thank you so much @Mykle1 for sharing your finding.

You are most welcome. :^)

I would like to give credit to everyone that is participating in this topic. By putting our heads together we’ve eliminated some possibilities but we haven’t pinpointed the problem, yet. We have narrowed it down a bit, though, and this workaround is helping some people. I’m glad you’re one of them.

[EventHorizon]

Just a quick post in an attempt to re-create the above steps. I get to the part where I have to type “npm install && npm start” and I get an error 404 ‘Not Found’. ‘types/node’ is not in the npm registry. ‘It was specified as a dependency of ‘electron’’

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks.

[strawberry 3.141]

@EventHorizon it should be @types/node

[EventHorizon]

@strawberry-3.141 thank you for the quick reply. Just to confirm: where am I entering @types/node. Sorry for being a noob at this. Thanks for your help!

EDIT: I got the node/type to work by updating using sudo npm install npm@latest -g

Now when I run sudo npm install in the magic mirror folder I get an error code LIFECYCLE. errno 1. “electron@1.7.6” postinstall ‘node install.js’.

‘failed at the electron@1.7.6 postinstall script’.

Any ideas?

EDIT2: used sudo npm install -g electron --unsafe-perm=true.

This seemed to work. I will monitor performance and let you all know.

EDIT3:

Been monitoring it for an hour or so now. CPU temp has not gone over 50. While before it was around a constant 60 - 65.
Compliments and Newsfeed animations are SUPER SMOOTH.

I can confirm that using MM 2.1.0 with Electron 1.4.15 has insanely improved performance! Thanks to everyone in this thread and to @Mykle1 for pointing this thread out for me.

I just have ONE final question guys. I used my custom.css file from my newer build and all was fine after I removed the ‘everyday’ segment of the code from the compliments module. HOWEVER…I notice in the background (If i tab to terminal) This message pops up:

“Fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git”

However, it does not seem to affect the mirror? Or not in any way I can see? Is there any way I can pinpoint how this message is being generated? Like I said, it does not appear to affect any of my modules.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers all!

[Mykle1]

@EventHorizon said in Electron CPU usage:

I can confirm that using MM 2.1.0 with Electron 1.4.15 has insanely improved performance! Thanks to everyone in this thread and to @Mykle1 for pointing this thread out for me.

If you read this entire thread then you know that I’ve been at this for three weeks. It started as a question from a single user and grew quickly and substantially. 148 posts and 6.0k views later showed there was/is an issue affecting many users, yourself included. I’m glad this workaround has helped you. Enjoy!

“Fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git”

I get these, too, when I do a manual installation of a module, or the MM software itself. What type of installation did you do?

In any event, it does not affect the operation of the MM software. Perhaps someone will give us a more detailed description of why it appears.

[EventHorizon]

@Mykle1 Thank you for the quick reply!

For the custom modules I used the git commands however, for the magic mirror module I just downloaded it and unzipped it, as I wasn’t sure if I could use a git command to request a specific version of magic mirror. Is there a way of using git to call MM 2.1.0? Just out of pure curiosity!

[Mykle1]

@EventHorizon said in Electron CPU usage:

for the magic mirror module I just downloaded it and unzipped it, as I wasn’t sure if I could use a git command to request a specific version of magic mirror. Is there a way of using git to call MM 2.1.0?

That’s how I do it, as well. I’m old and somewhat set in my ways when it comes to some things.

I’m really not sure if you can call an earlier version through git. It would be nice if we could do something like this:
https://github.com/MichMich/**MagicMirror210**.git

I never tried it. Anyone else have an answer to this?

As it is, the link to the earlier version looks like this:
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/archive/v2.1.0.zip

[strawberry 3.141]

@Mykle1 you can go to every commit you’d like to go, but it’s easier to choose a specific tag

git clone ...
git checkout v2.1.0

[Mykle1]

@strawberry-3.141 said in Electron CPU usage:

you can go to every commit you’d like to go, but it’s easier to choose a specific tag
git clone …
git checkout v2.1.0

And there you have it. Thanks :^)

[EventHorizon]

@Mykle1 We learn something new everyday! :) I’ve only started my magic mirror this week and I find this forum is so engaged and passionate about the mirror and all of its amazing stuff I love it.

I think my plan of action now will be: if at some point there is an update to fix this issue with the newest version I’ll just buy another SD card and keep this one as a backup.