Is there a way to schedule a sleep and wake cycle for the pi? Or at least a way to turn off the monitor during certain hours of the day?

@bhepler i have run that command, same issue persists.
Could it have something to do with VNCserver?

@bhepler after deleting startMagicMirror.sh the same problem exists

@bhepler pm2 doesnt appear to be installed, however i do have npm installed. Could that cause a conflict?

Any way to the sources from which start the mirror process is starting?

Also i may have created a conflict by following the OP steps as well as the steps outlined by @kobie

Also…

Instead of adding start.sh to the end of .bashrc, it’s better practice to have the
script run automatically on start-up. To do this:

sudo mv /home/pi/start.sh /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh
sudo update-rc.d startMagicMirror.sh defaults 100

This moves the script to the standard location for start-up scripts and tells the
system to run it after each boot.

I went back and deleted the startMagicMirror.sh file, however. Does update-rc.d need to be rolled back as well?

@SebTota
unfortunately no, it remains on the terminal. When i open a browser and go to localhost:8080 it does appear to be working so i know the MM and modules load correctly.

It seems to be an issue with the midori start script?

/home/pi/startMidori.sh

#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s off # disable screen saver
xset s noblank # don’t blank the video device
matchbox-window-manager &
unclutter &
midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost:8080

My /home/pi/start.sh script:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/MagicMirror
node serveronly &
sleep 45
sudo xinit /home/pi/startMidori.sh

and the last line in .bashrc

/home/pi/start.sh

another side note- on boot i get this error:

(EE) 
Fatal server error:
(EE) Server is already active for display 0
        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
        and start again.
(EE) 
(EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
(EE) 
Starting MagicMirror: v2.1.0
Loading config ...
Loading module helpers ...
No helper found for module: alert.
Initializing new module helper ...
No helper found for module: clock.
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
      after 6 requests (6 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

could this be the source of the error?

Great guide!

I have a quick question though. When my pi zero boots, it boots into a command line where i can see the modules are loading. It ends with

Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://localhost:8080
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
{ [Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::8080]
  code: 'EADDRINUSE',
  errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
  syscall: 'listen',
  address: '::',
  port: 8080 }

any ideas what causes this and how it can be fixed?