Auto restart MagicMirror after x hours ?

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)

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

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.

Smotx

Thanks for help.

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

fuet

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.