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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    Stop the screensaver!

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        Anthony Project Sponsor @Mykle1
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        Thank you for your reply. I haven’t try to see if Lucy works when I see the black screen because I can’t see the “Say, ‘Hello Lucy’” message and because of the latency problems I have I don’t know when it recognizes the keyword and wait for commands. My guess is that it will work but when I am finished with my mirrorsetup I will hung it on the wall so I won’t have mouse and keyboard connected to move or press a button for the mirror to show. Also the black screen appears not only in the standby mode. Last night I left the mirror showing my page 1 modules and in the morning I saw the black screen again. Moved the mouse and evertything showed up.

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          sdetweil @Anthony
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          @Anthony said in Stop the screensaver!:

          Moved the mouse and evertything showed up.

          that means screensaver kicked in… MM doesn’t do module visibility by mouse movement…

          Sam

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            Anthony Project Sponsor @sdetweil
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            @sdetweil
            I agree. But it doesn’t happen when I have voice disabled in my config. And I realized that it also doesn’t happen with voice enabled and MMM-ImageSlideShow showing my pics. Maybe because the pictures change every 10 seconds. But if I have voice enabled and MM shows only clock, calendar, weather etc after 30 minutes screen goes black.

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              sdetweil @Anthony
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              @Anthony and if MM is not running at all, what happens?

              I run voice, and imageslideshow and don’t see this. If I shut down MM, screen will stay in forever

              Sam

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                Anthony Project Sponsor @sdetweil
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                @sdetweil
                Mine too. If MM is shut down my screen is always on. This also happen if modules with movement are shown in the MM like MMM-ImageSlideShow which have pictures rotating. My screen goes black only when I have modules like clock,calendar,forunecookie,rfacs etc shown. I don’t know if a specific module cause this. For example I now have my MM on for 5 days without black screen and the modules shown are clock, calendar, stats, compliments, news, pictures and weather. If I hide pictures module or replace it with rfacts for example in about half an hour I will get the screensaver black screen.

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                  Anthony Project Sponsor
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                  Update.
                  Last 3-4 days my MM was running just fine without screensaver appears. Last night it happened again so I restart MM in dev mode to see if I find an error after the the screensaver’s black screen. When I moved the mouse (after some time the screensaver had appeared) the screen was white and in dev console I had a message saying websocket disconnected or something like that. Usually when I moved the mouse after the screensaver and without the dev tools enabled the black screen dissapears and I get my MM screen back. This time was different. I’ll try to upload a screenshot when I get home.

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                    sdetweil
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                    usually when u see that the MM runtime has crashed for some reason… even the debug console is gone

                    I haven’t found a way to debug what has happened… I see this occasionally…

                    Sam

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                      Anthony Project Sponsor
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                      This is getting too weird. Yesterday I had the MM running in dev mode and after I saw the screensaver I moved the mouse and everything came back as normal and no errors in the console. I don’t know why this happens not all the time and with different characteristics everytime.

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                        sdetweil @Anthony
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                        @Anthony when the screen went to sleep was the developer window hidden too?

                        when my MMM-SleepWake hides all the modules, the Developers console is still on the screen

                        Sam

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