Hello, here are some details on my configuration and the steps I’ve made to downgrade from 2.1.1 to MM 2.1.0 & electron 1.4.15. First, I use the following PI and OS

• Pi 3 Model B, 1024MB RAM

• Raspbian Stretch

pi@Infoboard:~ $ uname -a
Linux Infoboard 4.9.41-v7+ #1023 SMP Tue Aug 8 16:00:15 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

Downgrade MagicMirror from 2.1.1 to 2.1.0:
-rename of my MagicMirror folder to MagicMirrorSAVE
-download and unzip MM 2.1.0
-rename dir MagicMirror-2.1.0 to MagicMirror
-cd to MagicMirror
-npm install electron@1.4.15 # I didn’t install electron as a global package
-nano package.json
–> change electron version under dependencies to electron 1.4.15

{
  "name": "magicmirror",
  "version": "2.1.0",
  "description": "A modular interface for smart mirrors.",
  "main": "js/electron.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "electron js/electron.js"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
 ...
 "dependencies": {
    "electron": "1.4.15",
    "express": "^4.14.0",
    "express-ipfilter": "latest",
    "feedme": "latest",
....

now, install MagicMirror

-npm install
-copy your own modules from the MagicMirrorSAVE to the respective MM2.1.0 directory
-install necessary node modules for your own modules
done
Check the installed version of electron

pi@Infoboard:~ $ more MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/version
v1.4.15

run MM with ‘npm start’ and monitor the CPU usage with ‘top’
and the magic is there: 2 to 3 % CPU usage in case you are not running newsfeed or other modules with a lot of rendering stuff. If I include the newfeed modul CPU usage will increase up to 30%. So, I go without newsfeed!

I hope that help some or the other.

First of all a big, very big thank you to Michael Teeuw!!!

MagicMirror is really one of the greatest Raspberry projects followed by ‘pimatic - home automation controller’, another amazing Raspberry project. So far as I know both are developments from Dutchmen.
After studying the documentation and several MM-moduls, I decided to use MagicMirror to setup a central dashboard for my family. Beside customizing of the standard moduls I used the modul ‘MMM-DWD-WarnWeather by LukeSkywalker92’ as a base to create a new modul for retrieving data from my pimatic home controller.
I’m a complete novice to nodejs and all this web stuff, but my programming skill were sufficient to modify the Warnweather module and to integrate the the pimatic socket API.

And voila, here is my dashboard providing now actual information from the internet plus status information from my IoT devices controlled by pimatic.

Special thanks, to those people taken time to document and to publish there solutions.
(As soon as I’ve learned to use git, I will also publish the pimatic modul)

Best regards and a happy new year!

@tosti007 , @strawberry 3.141 - ok, you all right, it is not a failure to investigate a bit time to consult the internet and to learn new things!
I found and implemented a solution based on a table definition:

That’s was exactly what I was looking for!

Hi,

over the Chrismas days I’ve created a slideshow modul which is close to the functionality of a “digital photo frame”.

MMM-Photoshow

At startup the modul scans a local directory structure and creates a repository of the image files to display. At this point in time the module hide itself and waits on a command to start. The slideshow will start by a notification message from another modul, hides all other modules and shows the pictures in fullscreen mode. New pictures wil show up by a configurable time intervall. If the exif tag of the photo provides an information on the date taken, this date is shown in a footer line at the bottom of the screen. In addtion the footer line shows an album name, the number of photos of the album and the last received notification message (command to steer the show).

The slideshow is controlled by notification messages from a separate control modul. I’ve implemented a communication (socket io) to an external voice recognition modul based on snowboy. I think the modul (i.e alexyak/voicecontrol) would also work.
It is possible to switch between photo albums (represented by subdirectories of the loaded directory structure), to go forward , backward or to stop the photoshow by speaking a command.
It would be easy to modify the module with regular scans of the directory structure. There is already a command to reload the file structure during the run of the slideshow. Access to pictures on a remote server (i.e. NAS) works fine by mounting the remote folders into the local directory structure.
With the command ‘INFO_BOARD’ the slideshow stop, hide itselfs and switch back to info mode by showing up all other module.

I would be pleased if my modul can be used as a base for further development by a more experienced programmer like me.

@Mykle1 Yes, I downgraded due to high CPU usage with MM2.1.1 & electron1.4.17. Top showed a usage between 100 and 200% and my own written moduls had a really bad performance.

Sandy, here is my definition for the VariableDevice:

Devices -> Add a new device… -> Class: VariableDevice --> Variables Add -->

@Mr.Sponti said in MagicMirror Pimatic (Home Automation) Dashboard:

“Livingroom temperature {round($DST_Temperature,1)} °C - humidity {round($DST_Humidity,1)} %”

Sandy, I’ve tested the notification board with the following string varibale. The units of your measured values need to be part of the string defined in the field expression of your variable device.

“Livingroom temperature {round($Temperaturen.Esszimmer,1)} °C - humidity {round($Temperaturen.Esszimmer,1)} %”

Hi Sandy,
to display temperature and the humidity of your DST sensor in the Notification Board with rounded values and the right units should already possible. Try to use the following approach:

1. In pimatic create a VariableDevice with a string variable and assign a string including your temperature and humidity Variable.attributes of your DST sensor.
   (e.q. “Livingroom temperature {round($DST_Temperature,1)} °C - humidity {round($DST_Humidity,1)} %”

2. Configure the new VariableDevice into the Notification Board of the MMM-Pimatic module

I didn’t test that, but it should work in that way.

Rounding of the values is not a big issue as there is a method '.toFixed(2) ’ available. At the moment the unit specified in the config file is assigned to all values in the table. To implement the value rounding and a individual unit for every value I need to enhance the code. I will put it on my action list for the next version.

@ganther said in MagicMirror Pimatic (Home Automation) Dashboard:

dhtsensor

Hi Sandy, how is your dht22-sensor connected? Is the sensor direct connected to the Rasperry GPIO pins and you use the plugin “dht-sensors”?
What shows up for the sensor if you create a listing of “variables” from your pimatic menu?

@Peter , you can ignore these Warnings, but you need to install the socket.io-client modul:

cd  ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Pimatic
npm install socket.io-client

@Peter Here you can find the latest version of my MMM-Pimatic module. The README isn’t yet covering all features but should be sufficient for the installation and basic configuration of the module.
Please feel free to contact me if you need help to get it running.

@Peter
I’ve reworked my MMM-Pimatic modul but need now to adjust the description on gihub. The modul connects to a pimatic server to listen on device attribute changes and displays changes as notifications on the MagicMirror screen. Temperature values can be displayed in a separate table. As soon as I’ve completed the Readme, I will send you a message.

@start-the-fire said in Quit MM with script:

CTRL-C isn’t an option cause I’m us

Hi, maybe you can use my bash script mmhelper.sh to start/stop MagicMirror from the command line or from another script (e.q. python, nodejs).

#!/bin/bash
#
#	mmhelper.sh  start | stop | status | hdmi_on | hdmi_off| hdmi_status 
#
#   Last edited:    10.09.2017          (c) Mr.Sponti
#
#set -x

HOME=/home/pi
PATH=$PATH:$PWD
MY_NAME=$(basename -- "$0")

function monitor_on() {
    /opt/vc/bin/tvservice --preferred > /dev/null 2>&1
    sudo chvt 6
    sudo chvt 7
}

function monitor_off() {
    /opt/vc/bin/tvservice --off > /dev/null 2>&1
}

function monitor_status() {
    #  get power status --> 1 = off ,  0 = on
    power=$(/opt/vc/bin/tvservice --status |grep "TV is off"|wc -l)
    if [ $power -eq 1 ]
    then
        echo "off"
    elif [ $power -eq 0 ]
    then
        echo "on"
    fi
}

# check first runstring parameter
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
	cmd=start
else
	cmd=$1
fi

case $cmd in
    "start") #  start MagicMirror
        pm2 start mm
        ;;
    "stop") #  stop MagicMirror
        pm2 stop all
        ;; 
    "status")
        pm2 status mm
        ;;
    "hdmi_on") #  switch monitor on
        monitor_on
        monitor_status
        ;;
    "hdmi_off") # switch monitor off
        monitor_off
        monitor_status
        ;;       
    "hdmi_status")
        monitor_status
        ;;         
    *) echo "undefined command"
       echo "usage: $MY_NAME start|stop|status|hdmi_on|hdmi_off|hdmi_status"
esac

You also need the mm.sh script in your home directory!

pm2 flush

# start Magic Mirror system
cd ~/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

Merry Christmas!

@Kugelfang said in Electron CPU usage:

I tried your precise instructions but my system still installed electron 1.7.9

cd $HOME/MagicMirror
npm uninstall -g electron
npm uninstall electron
npm install electron@1.4.15