Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MMM-PIR-Sensor tuning
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You need the browser’s console log. I forgot how to pull it up in Electron, but a search on the forums should give you an answer. Alternatively, you can open your favorite browser on a different machine (on the same network) and visit the rpi’s ip and MM’s port, like so: http://rpi_ip:8080 (fill in rpi_ip). Then hit F12 on the browser to open the console panel.
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@KirAsh4 actually it looks like most of the Debug log will appear on the server side.
You can check this with ‘pm2 logs mm’. Add ‘–lines 100’ to show more off the logs (100) in this case.
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Most being the keyword, not all. And honestly, when I’m developing, I don’t rely on what pm2 is telling me, but rather specifically what the browser sees (or doesn’t) and where the errors lie. pm2 doesn’t do that. I can get all errors and debug messages in one place: the browser’s console log. I don’t need to open yet another window just to look at pm2’s logs.
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I’m not saying it’s wrong, nor right. I just prefer to use one facility that will show everything, as opposed to one that might only show some things.
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I agree, a central place for logging info would be ideal but that’s just not possible with MM at this point.
This is a bit out of scope for this topic, however unless you’re across the module system in depth you may not be aware that there are 2 separate “processes” to the MM for lack of a better word
- The UI, electron app that uses
console.log
and outputs to the chrome dev console if active - The Server App, express & module node_helpers that uses
console.log
to output to stdout of the process
With the way MM module system is implemented, using any additional NPM packages required by a module can only be done on the NodeJS App side (as far as I’m aware?), not in the UI where the browser dev console log is available.
That said, for this module particularly, if the UI was started with the dev console option then when motion is detected or no longer detected, the Node JS App will log a
USER_PRESENCE
socket event where the value will either betrue
orfalse
respectively. This is the case for both the original github repo and my fork. Unfortunately the dev console event system doesn’t log the value so debugging on/off values is not possible:calendar received a module notification: USER_PRESENCE from sender: MMM-PIR-Sensor
I don’t use PM2 yet, but to start the MM with dev console on just add the
dev
argument:electron js/electron.js dev
- The UI, electron app that uses
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@jc21
Sorry, I have some issues with your MMM-PIR-Sensor.
When I install your MMM-PIR-Sensor, my MagicMirror is slower, the MMM-Scheduler doesn´t work and the MM doesn´t stop withpm2 stop mm
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Do you experience the same thing with paviro’s original module? https://github.com/paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor
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@jc21
No with the “original” PIR-Sensor I don´t have this issues. That´s why I it noticed.I have still the issue with the sensor, that it turns on the monitior at night, when nobody is there. I need a programm to track, how often this at night happens. If it is only one or two times at night or more often.
Sebastian
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@shgmongohh Ok I’ll take a look at my stuff soon. I’m in the middle of writing another module that takes a photo when this PIR module senses user presence, if you had a camera attached it might be useful to you to see what the pir is detecting, if anything.