<![CDATA[Auto restart MagicMirror after x hours ?]]>Hi everybody,

After 5/6 hours my screen become black and i don’t find why.

For view MM i do launch :

pm2 restart mm

So for auto restart after 5 hours, i have create a cron :

* 5 * * * pm2 restart mm

don’t work… :(

but :

pi@raspmagicmirror1:~/MagicMirror $ tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep CRON
Sep 12 19:12:02 raspmagicmirror1 CRON[5590]: (root) CMD (pm2 restart mm)
Sep 12 19:12:04 raspmagicmirror1 CRON[5586]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

So why MM don’t restart ?

Thx for help (sorry for poor english)

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/8738/auto-restart-magicmirror-after-x-hoursRSS for NodeThu, 12 Mar 2026 16:35:46 GMTWed, 12 Sep 2018 17:21:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Auto restart MagicMirror after x hours ? on Fri, 14 Sep 2018 02:00:08 GMT]]>I see your original problem. You have the cron job set to execute each day at 5am.

Here is the cron command for every five hours:
0 */5 * * * pm2 restart /home/piMagicMirror/mm.sh

I now have this running myself (every three hours).

Note: The leading 0 means that it will execute in the 0th minute of the hour.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/44405https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/44405Fri, 14 Sep 2018 02:00:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Auto restart MagicMirror after x hours ? on Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:56:17 GMT]]>Thanks for help.

I have installed gnome-schedule to manage from desktop mode with VNC.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/44391https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/44391Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:56:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Auto restart MagicMirror after x hours ? on Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:12:09 GMT]]>My cronjob looks like this: 0 6 * * * pm2 reload mmand it is working just fine. Maybe try the reload instead of the restart command?
Also, I run crontab -ewithout sudo.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/44384https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/44384Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:12:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Auto restart MagicMirror after x hours ? on Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:06:05 GMT]]>@smotx, here is a thread with a similar goal to restart from cron:
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6826/how-to-autorestart-mm-once-a-day/4

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/44382https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/44382Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:06:05 GMT