MM Crashed twice. Time to abandon MM?

bhepler

@richard238 - If you’re viewing the Magic Mirror interface away from the Pi itself, then yeah I think it’s worth not starting the Electron service and running node serveronly. A significant portion of the issues with the Magic Mirror framework have been connected to the… inability of Electron to display the interface efficiently.

Richard238

How then do I convert my existing MM to serveronly?

All the instructions seem to be for making a serveronly MM from the start.

Thanks.

MadScientist

@richard238 Just enter your MM directory (e.g. cd Magicmirror) and run node serveronly. That should be all. Don’t forget to whitelist the IP of your remote computer, which will display MM.

Richard238

Ok, I’ll try that, thank you.

How do I get it back if I want to?
And can I still VNC to the Pi desktop?

MadScientist

Not sure since I don’t use the node serveronlyin my setup but a simple ctrl+cmight do the trick. Or you use pm2. Make a short script with nano mm_so.shand paste the following (make sure your MagicMirror directory is correct)

cd ~/MagicMirror
node serveronly

ctrl+xfollowed by a confirmation with ywill save it. Then type chmod a+x mm_so.sh.
If you have pm2 installed you can then just run it by typing pm2 start mm_so.sh. You stop it again by just entering pm2 stop mm_so.

Disclaimer: I haven’t tried any of the above and it might contain errors or be simply wrong. Just give it a try. It doesn’t break anything.

bhepler

@richard238 - To supplement @MadScientist excellent post, VNC works regardless of the Magic Mirror process state.

The default installation of Magic Mirror via the script uses pm2 to run a script at /home/pi/MagicMirror/run-start.sh. You can follow the instructions above to create your own script to run Magic Mirror in serveronly mode and switch between the two as you see fit.

pm2 stop MagicMirror
pm2 start mm_so

and so on and so forth. Do keep in mind that running the MagicMirror process with the interface enabled includes the web server. So your options are 1) full magic mirror with web server, and 2) web server only.