[Remote-Control] Shutdown, Configure and Update your MagicMirror

[Jopyth]

@justjim1220 This is intended to be used from a different device (i.e. not your MagicMirror), for example, your smartphone or tablet. Maybe you could get it to work on your MagicMirror with something like the IFrame module and a touchscreen?

[dmwilsonkc]

@jopyth I just want to thank you again for your work on this module! Your module rocks!

BTW - It doesn’t have to be a mobile/tablet, I wrote an AI skill for Mycroft that uses your MMM-Remote-Control module to pass verbal commands to the MagicMirror.

If you’d like, check out the 2 min. video here.

And here’s a link to the repo if anyone would like to check out the Python code that interacts with the MMM-Remote-Control module.

Thanks again!
Cheers!

[BluP]

@snille

Hi snille,

Have you ever found a solution? I want to do something similar, but was also not able to get a module to be hidden/shown during certain times using MMM-ModuleScheduler

I tried

{notification: 'REMOTE_ACTION', schedule:  '*/2 * * * MON-FRI', payload: {action: "SHOW&module=module_15_MMM-Traffic"}},
                                
{notification: 'REMOTE_ACTION', schedule:  '1-59/2 * * * MON-FRI', payload: {action: "HIDE&module=module_15_MMM-Traffic"}}

Does not make real sense, switching on a module every other minute, but would have been nice for testing…

If I use this as a GET request via HTTP,

http://My_MM_IP:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_16_MMM-Traffic

it works like charm…also curl works using another Raspi sending this command to the MM

Any idea?

Thanks, Peter

[PaulB]

Dear MM-Builders,

does someone know how to solve attached problem?

Thanks in advace :-)

[Hein-Jan]

@paulb

Is your device listed in “whitelist”, in your config.js?

Please check forum on whitelist issues.

Hein-Jan

[m0111k]

@jopyth in light of topic resurrection, I’m looking into creating multiple functions for my pi’s. I’m using MMM-NetworkScanner and MMM-Remote-Control. The idea is like follows:

When I leave home, my mobile goes offline from home network. I’m looking for a command to enable camera (reboot y/n) to enable another project I’d like to combine with this. (Pi Camera Notifier: https://iotbreaks.com/build-a-camera-alert-application-with-raspberrypi-3-and-iosandroid-pushbullet-app/) turning it into a security cam. The commands available in the readme of MMM-RC didnt hand me a clue for further investigations

I’d love to see these work in conjunction that’d give it a whole new dimension :)

[robiv8]

Hallo, my remote control work.
but
When I pull the restart button the MagicMirror restarts fine but I become a Fehler (Fail)
What can this be?

My Log after push the button:

0|mm  | Shutting down server...
0|mm  | Stopping module helper: MMM-Page-Selector
0|mm  | Stopping module helper: MMM-Remote-Control
0|mm  | Stopping module helper: MMM-DWD-WarnWeather
0|mm  | Stopping module helper: MMM-PublicTransportHafas
0|mm  | Stopping module helper: newsfeed
0|mm  | Stopping module helper: MMM-Buttons
0|mm  | Use --update-env to update environment variables
0|mm  | [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0)
0|mm  | { Error: Command failed: pm2 restart mm
0|mm  |     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:287:12)
0|mm  |     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
0|mm  |     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
0|mm  |     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16)
0|mm  |     at Socket.stream.socket.on (internal/child_process.js:346:11)
0|mm  |     at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
0|mm  |     at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
0|mm  |     at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:554:12)
0|mm  |   killed: false,
0|mm  |   code: null,
0|mm  |   signal: 'SIGINT',
0|mm  |   cmd: 'pm2 restart mm' }
0|mm  | > magicmirror@2.6.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
0|mm  | > sh run-start.sh
0|mm  | Starting MagicMirror: v2.6.0
0|mm  | Loading config ...

[swvalenti]

Same error as above but in English. Def restarts MM with no issue but MM RM displays error oddly?

[robiv8]

Nobody an idea?
Now the notification does not work anymore! Somehow I have the feeling that this block any other modules.
You can send but it does not matter! Also no error message.

[nobita]

@Jopyth What Happen? and how to solve it?

[robiv8]

I have the impression that Jopyth does not have time to maintain the module. Last answer here was 9 months ago.
Too bad, is an excellent module

[Cr4z33]

@jopyth I’ve done the Italian translation if you would like to add it. ;)

https://pastebin.com/g7hKLiad

[Jopyth]

Hi everyone, these is a new version, lots of credit goes to @shbatm for this. Please give it a try and see if it fixed the various issues. There are also better error messages, which might help us narrow down the problem. Without further ado, this is the changelog:

[2.0.0] - 2019-02-21

Huge shoutout to shbatm for his work on this new major version, which brings a new API, custom menus and commands and lots of other stuff:

Added

• REST API interface for controlling all aspects of the MagicMirror from HTTP RESTful-style GET and POST calls, based on principles from MMM-Api
  • Full API Documentation at API/README.md
• Live daily updates of modules.json from the MagicMirror wiki, based on principles from MMM-Remote-Control-Repository.
• Incorporated some features found in MMM-OnScreenMenu that were not originally in this module.
  • Monitor (Connected Screen) On-Off Status and Toggle
  • Delayed calls (“DELAYED” Query option and .../delay API paths)
  • If using Electron: Open Dev Tools, Minimize, Toggle Fullscreen
• Configuration Option to send custom shell commands to use. Currently, only custom monitor on/off/status commands are supported.
• Module Control menu - Automatically generated from the API to control the different modules you have installed, based on their notificationReceived function.
• Custom menu items. See Custom Menu Items in README
• Norsk bokmål translation

Changed

• Updates to remote.html and the node_helper.js to use direct SocketIO communication back and forth instead of separate HTTP calls.
  • Future framework for following PM2 logs and more live update options.
• General clean-up and standardization of status reporting for GET and POST calls, to original URLs and to new API URLs.
• Updated to ES2015 (ES Version 6) function calls in most locations.
• Added USER_PRESENCE controls from AgP42
• Added/updated french translations from BKeyport and Mysh3ll
• Added SHOW/HIDE/TOGGLE ALL modules option per request from Rene1709

Upcoming Changes

• Add additional MMM-OnScreenMenu features:
  • Moving modules’ positions
• PM2 Log Follower / Terminal Window
• Added Notification Echo option to config to echo all Module Notifications to the remote’s DevTools console for debugging.
• Allow for text input in the Module Controls menu to be able to provide a notification payload.

[planet4]

Thanks for doing all the work. Just upgraded. However I had problems before waking and sleeping the screen and before I was able to change this in the node_helper.js to use:

vcgencmd display_power 1 instead of tvservice. The command works via ssh but when I tried to change like below the screens sleeps but I can not wake it up via the remote.html menu. Anyone with the same problem?

 monitorControl: function(action, opts, res) {
            let status = "unknown";
            let monitorOnCommand = (this.initialized && "monitorOnCommand" in this.thisConfig.customCommand) ?
                this.thisConfig.customCommand.monitorOnCommand :
                "sudo vcgencmd display_power 1";
            let monitorOffCommand = (this.initialized && "monitorOffCommand" in this.thisConfig.customCommand) ?
                this.thisConfig.customCommand.monitorOffCommand :
                "vcgencmd display_power 0";
            let monitorStatusCommand = (this.initialized && "monitorStatusCommand" in this.thisConfig.customCommand) ?
                this.thisConfig.customCommand.monitorStatusCommand :
                "vcgencmd display_power --status";
            if (["MONITORTOGGLE", "MONITORSTATUS", "MONITORON"].indexOf(action) !== -1) {
                screenStatus = exec(monitorStatusCommand, opts, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
            

[Cr4z33]

@jopyth I would love to give it a try, but I need first to replace the monitor on/off commands with more suitable CEC commands (I use the cec-utils package) as I have a TV instead. :)

Please tell me what do I have to edit to use the following commands?

Turn tv on: echo on 0 | cec-client -s -d 1

Turn tv off: echo standby 0 | cec-client -s -d 1

Tv status: echo pow 0 | cec-client -s -d 1

[nobita]

@jopyth ,After git pull and npm install , Error like this (at below) happen
what wrong and how to fix it
Thanks for your help

[motdog]

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[costascontis]

@Jopyth nice module but i have an issue ,i think last update broke the restart function.Now its just stops MagicMirror and not restart it.Is there a fix for that?

[swvalenti]

@costascontis I am experiencing the same issue you are as well.

[costascontis]

solved it ,replace node_helper.js with this one ,fix is by ronanversendaal