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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    Auto restart MagicMirror after x hours ?

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      Smotx
      last edited by Smotx

      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)

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        fuet @Smotx
        last edited by fuet

        @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

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          MadScientist
          last edited by MadScientist

          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.

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            Smotx
            last edited by

            Thanks for help.

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

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              fuet @Smotx
              last edited by

              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.

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