Not sure which subsection to put this in, but this seemed the right place. It may be of some use to people with a MM and a video doorbell

I wanted to have the video from my doorbells (I have 2 on different doors) temporarily show on my MM when someone rung the doorbell.

First attempt was to use MMM-Remote-Control, MMM-Pages, go2rtc and MMM-EmbedURL to show the RTSP video (via go2rtc coverting to WebRTC) using Unifi’s Alarm Webhook feature calling for a page change - The 2 video streams on a hidden page, only shown on the page change call.

This worked in principal, but because the modules on the hidden page kept streaming the video even when not being displayed, the RPi5 got quite hot and the network overhead of the constant 24hr streaming was unneccesary.

The solution was to use a script to do the following:

Unifi alarm webhook calls http://pi_ip:9500/motion
go2rtc starts
Wait 3 seconds for go2rtc to connect to cameras
MagicMirror electron refreshes (/api/refresh) so iframes reconnect to go2rtc
Wait 3 seconds for refresh to complete
Switch to camera page (/api/notification/PAGE_CHANGED/1)
Camera feeds display for 60 seconds via WebRTC
Switch back to main page (/api/notification/PAGE_CHANGED/0)
Wait 2 seconds for page to switch
go2rtc stops

Works perfectly now. RPi stays cool and no constant streaming from camera to MM. There is a few seconds delay before it starts, but that actually works for me because of the location of the MM, the doors and where we usually are in the house.

Hope this helps someone who wants to do something similar.

Happy to answer questions.

@sdetweil

Thanks

I’ll have to find another way to stop the streaming while the page is hidden

Instead of using pages to hide the module, I guess I could use MMM-Remote-Control to enable/disable the EmbedURL module? That would stop the streaming?

@sdetweil said:

@mvrlogins said:

The EmbendURL modules only display on demand on a seperate page

what do you mean by separate page?
MagicMirror does not have pages, it has logical groupings of content, some shown together, others hidden (this is MMM-pages, MMM-Carousel, MMM-ModulesGroupsRotation, MMM-ProfileSwitcher, etc)
so even if not shown, some content could still be generated (Embed/iFrame) , they don’t know they are hidden

if you run ps -ef you can see the commandline used to launch each process.

you say you have a 1 gig pi5, but mem reports as 2gig.

but you are over physical, and swapping. which takes cycles.

I would suggest, disabling module at a time
add

disabled:true, 

after the module:name… line

and rerun to see what the effect is. what are the embed modules showing? active content, graphs, images??

The EmbedURL module shows a WebRTC video. The page is hiddent and called on demand (not regular rotation).

I thought that the module would not continue to stream the video when hidden. I guess this is the problem, since it does continue

@sdetweil said:

@mvrlogins if you stop MagicMirror what is the temp?

It drops to 50C in a few min

I have ordered a fan/cooler

But anyone have any insight into whethere the processes I listed are over running?

The list of running modules -

The EmbendURL modules only display on demand on a seperate page

pi@MMPi5:~ $ curl -s http://localhost:8080/api/module | python3 -c "import sys,json; [print(m['identifier'], '-', m['name']) for m in json.load(sys.stdin)['data']]"
module_0_alert - alert
module_1_MMM-Remote-Control - MMM-Remote-Control
module_2_MMM-pages - MMM-pages
module_3_MMM-EmbedURL - MMM-EmbedURL
module_4_MMM-EmbedURL - MMM-EmbedURL
module_5_calendar - calendar
module_6_iFrame - iFrame
module_7_clock - clock
module_8_MMM-Worldclock - MMM-Worldclock
module_9_MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - MMM-OpenWeatherForecast
module_10_MMM-EmbedURL - MMM-EmbedURL
module_11_iFrame - iFrame
module_12_newsfeed - newsfeed
module_13_newsfeed - newsfeed
pi@MMPi5:~ $ 

I have a new 1GB RPi5 running the latest version of MM, installed using @sdetweil 's scripts

It is running very hot at 84C

I don’t have any cooling hardware and it is not installed in a case, but airflow around is not restricted at all.

The only additional program I have running is go2rtc to stream an RTSP camera feed to an iFrame, but that is on a seperate page (using MMM-pages) that is only called on demand

I have ordered a cooler, but wanted to see if there was something amiss.

pi@MMPi5:~ $ top -b -n 1 | head -20
top - 12:40:10 up  5:33,  4 users,  load average: 8.30, 8.04, 7.71
Tasks: 232 total,   3 running, 229 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 77.8 us, 11.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 11.1 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st 
MiB Mem :   2006.8 total,    160.7 free,   1137.2 used,    870.8 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:   2006.0 total,   1966.0 free,     40.0 used.    869.5 avail Mem 

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 450392 pi        20   0 1143840  56256  41376 R 100.0   2.7   0:00.33 MainThr+
   2582 pi        20   0   32.6g 160848 132096 S  72.7   7.8 234:05.79 electron
   2685 pi        20   0 1407.7g 169824 113552 R  45.5   8.3 103:34.34 electron
 449306 pi        20   0 1415.9g 185040 120112 S  45.5   9.0   0:23.18 electron
   3153 pi        20   0 1407.8g 162912 101904 S  27.3   7.9 102:32.93 electron
   1334 pi        20   0  527936 116960  85824 S  18.2   5.7  72:06.61 labwc
   1525 pi        20   0 1408.1g 269904 160912 S  18.2  13.1  16:37.33 electron
   2658 pi        20   0   32.3g  88832  71040 S  18.2   4.3   9:05.59 electron
   3253 pi        20   0   32.5g  67680  53712 S   9.1   3.3  17:05.44 electron
  40449 pi        20   0 1245936  38560     16 S   9.1   1.9  19:24.04 go2rtc
 450399 pi        20   0   10368   5152   2800 R   9.1   0.3   0:00.02 top
      1 root      20   0   25712  13968   9424 S   0.0   0.7   0:01.83 systemd
      2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.04 kthreadd
pi@MMPi5:~ $ 

Below from the pm2 log

0|MagicMir | [2025-09-21 16:44:59.284] [ERROR] Error when loading MMM-Remote-Control: require() of ES Module /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control/node_modules/uuid/dist-node/index.js from /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control/API/api.js not supported.
0|MagicMir | Instead change the require of index.js in /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control/API/api.js to a dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS modules. 

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70541068/instead-change-the-require-of-index-js-to-a-dynamic-import-which-is-available

@sdetweil

Redid the install using

npm install

No errors during install

Same problem

I removed the Remote-Control installation using

rm -r -f  MMM-Remote-Control/

Installed it using the instructions on the github repository

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
git clone https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control
cd MMM-Remote-Control
npm ci --omit=dev

I now get the following - which doesn’t seem fatal at first glance -

npm warn ERESOLVE overriding peer dependency
npm warn While resolving: react-inspector@6.0.2
npm warn Found: react@19.1.1
npm warn node_modules/swagger-ui/node_modules/react
npm warn   react@">=16.8.0 <20" from swagger-ui@5.29.0
npm warn   node_modules/swagger-ui
npm warn     swagger-ui@"^5.29.0" from the root project
npm warn   2 more (react-dom, react-immutable-pure-component)
npm warn
npm warn Could not resolve dependency:
npm warn peer react@"^16.8.4 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0" from react-inspector@6.0.2
npm warn node_modules/swagger-ui/node_modules/react-inspector
npm warn   react-inspector@"^6.0.1" from swagger-ui@5.29.0
npm warn   node_modules/swagger-ui
npm warn
npm warn Conflicting peer dependency: react@18.3.1
npm warn node_modules/react
npm warn   peer react@"^16.8.4 || ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0" from react-inspector@6.0.2
npm warn   node_modules/swagger-ui/node_modules/react-inspector
npm warn     react-inspector@"^6.0.1" from swagger-ui@5.29.0
npm warn     node_modules/swagger-ui

@sdetweil

I’ve now changed it to

var config = 
{
  address: '0.0.0.0',
  ipWhitelist: [],
  modules: [




    {
      module: 'MMM-Remote-Control',
      config: {
        secureEndpoints: false
      }
    },

Same problem with Canot GET /remote.html

http://10.0.1.87:8080/ works fine and I see the MM display
http://10.0.1.87:8080/remote.html leads to the error

@sdetweil

Interesting

I’ve had that on an instance of MM I’ve been running for 5-6 years with Remote -Control and it’s always worked fine.

I’ve been able to access the display and remote from anywhere on the network.

So I just copied it over to the new one

On a new installation

var config = 
{
  address: '0.0.0.0',
  ipWhitelist: [
    '127.0.0.1',
    '::ffff:127.0.0.1',
    '::1',
    '10.0.1.1/24'
  ],
  modules: [



    {
      module: 'MMM-Remote-Control',
      config: {
        secureEndpoints: false
      }
    },

The entire section is copied from another instance of MM where Remote-Control is working fine.

On this new install I get

Cannot GET /remote.html

Help!

@sdetweil

Thanks for your help with this, Much appreciated

I’m now away from the mirror for the weekend. I’ll give it a shot when I return on Tuesday

@sdetweil

The video appears on both pages.

The page with index 0 and the hidden page

@sdetweil

Yes, using your fork

@evroom said in MMM-pages - how to know which page index my module has?:

As a workaround, I will make it a requirement to put the MMM-Player on the first page (page index 0).
When I receive 0, then I will start streaming, otherwise I will stop streaming.
That seems to work.

@sdetweil Maybe something to do with this?

@sdetweil said in MMM-pages - how to know which page index my module has?:

git clone https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-MPlayer

Did as you suggested

The video appears only on page index 0 and not on the hidden page

See the 2 video images on the attached screenshot - both are over the weather module

The header for the MPlayer appears on the hidden page

I can change to the hidden page with Remote Control, no problem

    {
        module: "MMM-pages",
        config: {
            rotationTime: 1000 * 86400, // rotate every 20 seconds
            modules: [
	
                ["page1"],           // class name for page 1
         //       ["page2"],           // class name for page 2
        //        ["page3"],           // class name for page 3
            ],
            fixed: ["fixed_page"],
            hiddenPages: {
                "Doorbell": ["doorbell_page"],
           
            }
        }
    },

{
	module: 'MMM-MPlayer',
        classes: "doorbell_page",
        disabled: false,
        position: "top_left",
        header: "MPlayer",
	config: {
	  useTwoWindows: true,
	  layout: 'column',
	  monitorAspect: 0,
	  rotate: -1,
	  windowSize: { width: 640, height: 360 },
	  windowPosition: { x: 5, y: 225 },
	  streamInterval: 30000,
	  streams: {
		window1: [
		  'rtsp://10.0.1.1:7447/gv9eHrB9yZyPhgvN',
		],
		window2: [
		  'rtsp://10.0.1.1:7447/D89zTJyDwN8YtKix',
		  
		]
	  }
	}
},

@sdetweil said in MMM-pages - how to know which page index my module has?:

@mvrlogins hm, that makes no sense as the MagicMirror operations are the same

Maybe something to do with mplayer itself, not the module MMM-Mplayer?