@sdetweil Thank you a lot Sam.

I did everything but
I have an [ERROR] _ is not defined

magicmirror@2.31.0 start:x11
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

[2025-05-11 15:39:26.429] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.31.0
[2025-05-11 15:39:26.527] [LOG] Loading config …
[2025-05-11 15:39:26.537] [LOG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[2025-05-11 15:39:28.154] [INFO] Checking config file /home/MYMIRR/MagicM irror/config/config.js …
[2025-05-11 15:39:28.478] [INFO] Your configuration file doesn’t contain syntax errors :)
[2025-05-11 15:39:28.482] [INFO] Checking modules structure configuration …
[2025-05-11 15:39:28.793] [ERROR] _ is not defined

@sdetweil

which node gave me
/home/MYMIRR/.nvm/versions/node/v22.15.0/bin/node

n gave me
node/20.18.1

Use up/down arrow keys to select a version, return key to install, d to delete, q to quit

nvm gave me

Node Version Manager (v0.39.5)

Note: refers to any version-like string nvm understands. This includes :

• full or partial version numbers, starting with an optional “v” (0.10, v0.1.2 , v1)
• default (built-in) aliases: node, stable, unstable, iojs, system
• custom aliases you define with nvm alias foo

followed by a lot of options

@sdetweil I’m sorry :(

I did it what you suggest and config:check gave me a module error again. Different than one before

npm run config:check

magicmirror@2.31.0 config:check
node js/check_config.js

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1404
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module ‘ajv’
Require stack:

After “require stack” there are other lines, if you need it, tell me.
Thanks

@sdetweil npm install results

~/MagicMirror $ npm install
npm error code ENOTEMPTY
npm error syscall rename
npm error path /home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/node_modules/es-abstract
npm error dest /home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/node_modules/.es-abstract-fSsKyNTi
npm error errno -39
npm error ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rename ‘/home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/node_modules/es-abstract’ -> ‘/home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/node_modules/.es-abstract-fSsKyNTi’
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/MYMIRR/.npm/_logs/2025-05-10T06_40_55_661Z-debug-0.log

Tried with sudo

~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install
npm error code EBADENGINE
npm error engine Unsupported engine
npm error engine Not compatible with your version of node/npm: magicmirror@2.31.0
npm error notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: magicmirror@2.31.0
npm error notsup Required: {“node”:“>=22.14.0”}
npm error notsup Actual: {“npm”:“11.2.0”,“node”:“v20.18.1”}
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /root/.npm/_logs/2025-05-10T06_41_52_949Z-debug-0.log

npm seems to see an old version of nodejs but:

~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v22.15.0

I don’t know what happened.
If it can help I had first problem after the MMM-SolarPicture
but I’ve just installed it and configured it through config.js… nothing more than usual…

but the actual behaviour is that pm2 status says it’s running, but on the monitor I see just the raspbian desktop

│ id │ name │ namespace │ version │ mode │ pid │ uptime │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0 │ mm │ default │ N/A │ fork │ 4311 │ 19s │ 64 │ online │ 0% │ 2.6mb │ ber… │ disabled │

@sdetweil

Upgrade started - Sat May 10 00:06:51 CEST 2025
system is Linux magicmirror2 6.1.21-v7+ #1642 SMP Mon Apr 3 17:20:52 BST 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux
doing test run = true, NO updates will be applied!
the os is PRETTY_NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)” NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux” VERSION_ID=“11” VERSION=“11 (bullseye)” VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye ID=raspbian ID_LIK>
architecture from dpkg is armhf
^[[96mCheck current Node installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNode currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum Node version: ^[[1mv22.14.0^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled Node version: ^[[1mv22.15.0^[[0m
^[[92mNo Node.js upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current NPM installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNPM currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.2^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled npm version: ^[[1mV11.3.0^[[0m
^[[92mNo npm upgrade necessary.^[[0m

saving custom.css
remote name = origin
upgrading from version 2.31.0 to 2.31.0
fetching latest revisions
git fetch rc=0
current branch = master
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/master’.

Untracked files:
(use “git add …” to include in what will be committed)
core
errorcal.txt
errorcal2.txt
errorcal3.txt
errorcal4.txt
errorcal5.txt
nohup.out
run-start.sh
splashscreen/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use “git add” to track)
no files different from github version

@sdetweil MM doesn’t work.

I tried a config check but I have this error now.
I tried to “npm install eslint -g” but the error persist

npm run config:check

magicmirror@2.31.0 config:check
node js/check_config.js

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1404
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module ‘eslint’
Require stack:

• /home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/js/check_config.js
  at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1401:15)
  at defaultResolveImpl (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1057:19)
  at resolveForCJSWithHooks (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1062:22)
  at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1211:37)
  at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
  at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:235:24)
  at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1487:12)
  at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:135:16)
  at Object. (/home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/js/check_config.js:6:20)
  at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1730:14) {
  code: ‘MODULE_NOT_FOUND’,
  requireStack: [ ‘/home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/js/check_config.js’ ]
  }

Node.js v22.15.0

@sdetweil I’m sorry for the question: that script?

bash -c “$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/upgrade-script.sh)”

Thanks

@sdetweil Do you suggest to update manually or auto? Thanks

@sdetweil I didn’t update MM since I’ve installed it months ago, so I suppose it wasn’t that. Might be it updated automatically?

I remember you told me to use a “temp fix” to solve a problem.
Now I’ll follow your guide in the post to update it.
Thanks

Hi,
I have an issue, appeared after MMM-SolarPicture installation but I don’t think it’s related to it. Maybe an error on my configuration.

pm2 logs is this one below

0|mm | [2025-05-08 21:00:29.772] [ERROR] _ is not defined
0|mm | [2025-05-08 21:00:29.826] [ERROR] _ is not defined
0|mm | [2025-05-08 21:01:53.233] [ERROR] _ is not defined
0|mm | [2025-05-08 21:01:53.327] [ERROR] _ is not defined
0|mm | [2025-05-08 21:03:16.264] [ERROR] _ is not defined
0|mm | [2025-05-08 21:03:16.440] [ERROR] _ is not defined
0|mm | [2025-05-08 21:04:39.584] [ERROR] _ is not defined
0|mm | [2025-05-08 21:04:39.676] [ERROR] _ is not defined
0|mm | sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
0|mm | sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
0|mm | sh: 1: sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
0|mm | ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
0|mm | sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
0|mm | sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
0|mm | sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found

0|mm | > magicmirror@2.31.0-develop start
0|mm | > npm run start:x11
0|mm | > magicmirror@2.31.0-develop start:x11
0|mm | > DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
0|mm | sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
PM2 | App [mm:0] exited with code [0] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2 | App [mm:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2 | App [mm:0] online
0|mm | > magicmirror@2.31.0-develop start
0|mm | > npm run start:x11
0|mm | > magicmirror@2.31.0-develop start:x11
0|mm | > DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
0|mm | sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
PM2 | App [mm:0] exited with code [0] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2 | App [mm:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2 | App [mm:0] online

npm run config:check gave me that result:

magicmirror@2.31.0-develop config:check
node js/check_config.js

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1228
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module ‘eslint’
Require stack:

• /home/MYMIRRORNAME/MagicMirror/js/check_config.js
  at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1225:15)
  at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1051:27)
  at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1311:19)
  at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:179:18)
  at Object. (/home/MYMIRRNAME/MagicMirror/js/check_config.js:6:20)
  at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1469:14)
  at Module._extensions…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1548:10)
  at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1288:32)
  at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1104:12)
  at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:173:12) {
  code: ‘MODULE_NOT_FOUND’,
  requireStack: [ ‘/home/MYMIRRORNAME/MagicMirror/js/check_config.js’ ]
  }

Node.js v20.18.1

thank you for your help

@emlowe I have a similar problem, I solved modifing mm.sh with

sleep 30
DISPLAY=:0 npm start
sleep 60
pm2 restart mm

“pm2 restart mm” does a refresh like you do with RemoteControl

@sdetweil
Yes I agree, the memory is very limiting.
Although mine is a Pi3 model A, but the memory is 512mb like the pi02w.
When I started the project I had something different in my mind and now I’m pushing it to the limit.

But as I said I checked everytime the CPU temperature, memory and generally resources usage from “htop” command.

This morning MM started with calendar error, I did a “pm2 restart mm” and goes OK.

Now I put “sleep 120” inside mm.sh as first line
I restarted it now

Memory BEFORE restart was this
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 427 156 90 70 179 147
Swap: 1023 231 792

Not so good but not so bad, same time.

I’ll check if this delay could help.
Is there a way to put a little delay between the loading of every module ? Maybe 5/10 seconds, I though it could be very helpful on a limited machine like mine :)

@sdetweil
behaviour seems the same. I suspect this, could this issues be related to the raspberry pi 3 computing capacity? could it be not enough?

Is there a way to delay the pm2 automatic startup.
For example I though to try a delay of 1-2 minutes so:
1- raspbian startup
2- delay of 1-2 minutes to make sure all the services are up and the cpu is idle
3- mm startup
4- if it’s possible, I will add a delay to the modules startup also, maybe 20 seconds between every module loading

Honestly I checked his capacity a lot of times using the htop, free and cpu temperature command.
With my amazement I see everytime an amount of free memory, low cpu load and good cpu temp (like 40 to 50 degrees)

But if there is a way to delay everything, I’ll just check if with a “calmly” startup It will go better

@sdetweil
I did it.
I usually put the “disabled: true” before the module name line, instead of after
Is it different?

@sdetweil

Recreated 2 times.

First time calendar loaded Holidays calendar only

[2025-03-19 22:23:55.917] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/**MYCAL**>
[2025-03-19 22:23:56.467] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/**HOLIDAYPUBLICCAL**/publ>
[2025-03-19 22:23:56.675] [LOG] Create new newsfetcher for url: https://www.ansa.it/sito/ansait_rss.xml - Interval: 300000
[2025-03-19 22:23:56.698] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:23:56.836] [LOG] MMM-Formula1 received a notification: CONFIG
[2025-03-19 22:23:56.838] [LOG] MMM-Formula1 is requesting the SCHEDULE on url https://api.jolpi.ca/ergast/f1/2025.json
[2025-03-19 22:24:02.687] [INFO] updatenotification: Updater Class Loaded!
[2025-03-19 22:24:02.733] [INFO] updatenotification: Checking PM2 using…
[2025-03-19 22:24:02.735] [INFO] updatenotification: [PM2] You are not using pm2
[2025-03-19 22:24:02.740] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-CalendarExt3
[2025-03-19 22:24:03.525] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-Growatt
[2025-03-19 22:24:03.850] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-Formula1
[2025-03-19 22:24:04.283] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-RAIN-MAP
[2025-03-19 22:24:07.693] [INFO] Checking git for module: MagicMirror
[2025-03-19 22:24:08.072] [LOG] MMM-Formula1 is returning the SCHEDULE for the season
[2025-03-19 22:24:40.393] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 28 items.
[2025-03-19 22:24:45.457] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 61 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/**MYPRIVCAL**>
[2025-03-19 22:24:46.745] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 36 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/**PUBLICHOLIDAYCAL/>
[2025-03-19 22:24:57.986] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:25:51.745] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:25:54.191] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:27:51.368] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:27:53.447] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data

---

2nd time I got the error and no calendar loaded:

[2025-03-19 22:32:06.388] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/**PUBLICHOLIDAYCAL**>
[2025-03-19 22:32:07.767] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/**MYPRIVCAL**>
[2025-03-19 22:32:07.881] [LOG] Create new newsfetcher for url: https://www.ansa.it/sito/ansait_rss.xml - Interval: 300000
[2025-03-19 22:32:07.903] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:32:08.057] [INFO] updatenotification: Updater Class Loaded!
[2025-03-19 22:32:08.059] [INFO] updatenotification: Checking PM2 using…
[2025-03-19 22:32:08.063] [INFO] updatenotification: [PM2] You are not using pm2
[2025-03-19 22:32:08.066] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-CalendarExt3
[2025-03-19 22:32:08.132] [LOG] MMM-Formula1 received a notification: CONFIG
[2025-03-19 22:32:08.134] [LOG] MMM-Formula1 is requesting the SCHEDULE on url https://api.jolpi.ca/ergast/f1/2025.json
[2025-03-19 22:32:08.516] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-Growatt
[2025-03-19 22:32:10.043] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-Formula1
[2025-03-19 22:32:11.007] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-RAIN-MAP
[2025-03-19 22:32:14.346] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 28 items.
[2025-03-19 22:32:14.404] [LOG] MMM-Formula1 is returning the SCHEDULE for the season
[2025-03-19 22:32:14.414] [INFO] Checking git for module: MagicMirror
[2025-03-19 22:32:48.815] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 61 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/**MYPRIVCAL**>
[2025-03-19 22:32:50.508] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 36 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar/**PUBLICHOLIDAYCAL**>
[2025-03-19 22:32:51.949] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:34:08.485] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:34:14.955] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:36:06.721] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:36:09.906] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:37:16.339] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 28 items.
[2025-03-19 22:38:07.502] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:38:10.302] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:40:09.496] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:40:12.087] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:42:11.495] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:42:13.869] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:42:16.743] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 28 items.
[2025-03-19 22:44:13.525] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:44:15.562] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:46:15.496] [LOG] MMM-Growatt: GROWATT_GET_DATA
[2025-03-19 22:46:17.289] [LOG] Publishing GROWATT data
[2025-03-19 22:47:17.588] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 28 items.
[2025-03-19 22:47:20.690] [LOG] Shutting down server…
[2025-03-19 22:47:20.696] [LOG] Stopping module helper: calendar

Honestly… I don’t see nothing strange.
But when this error appear, if I left MM on for a day, it wont load calendar entries.

I have to restart it one or more time till it show entries

@sdetweil

It’s very long.

I checked the end paragraph ad I saw just errors from growatt module.
Do I have to search something in particular?

@sdetweil

git branch

• _fix_clipping
  master

Error appeared now:
" Error in the calendar module. Check logs for more detail."

I don’t know where to find calendar logs but with “pm2 logs”
I don’t see any errors information about calendar issue, just something about another module.

/home/MYUSER/.pm2/logs/mm-error.log last 15 lines:
0|mm | socket: {
0|mm | localAddress: 'MMIPADDRESS,
0|mm | localPort: MMPORT,
0|mm | remoteAddress: undefined,
0|mm | remotePort: undefined,
0|mm | remoteFamily: undefined,
0|mm | timeout: undefined,
0|mm | bytesWritten: 322,
0|mm | bytesRead: 0
0|mm | }
0|mm | }
0|mm | }
0|mm | [2025-03-19 13:30:59.574] [ERROR] Failed to retrieve repo info for MMM-Growatt: Error: Command failed: cd /home/MYUSER/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Growatt && git fetch -n --dry-run
0|mm | fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/dekinet/MMM-Growatt.git/’: Empty reply from server
0|mm |

I don’t think this could be related to calendar issue

@sdetweil I though I applied the fix in the past, although I’m not 100% sure.
But I don’t think the issue is ext3 related.

In my opinion sometimes default calendar don’t fetch the calendars, especially at the morning.
When it happen I don’t see any lines and a error message appear.
I don’t remember the message and now it’s working.
In the last one hour I tried to restart MM some times but now seems working, everything ok, no error message.
If it will appear, I’ll write it here

I’m using default calendar with calendarExt3
Actually I’m using 2 .ics, one for holidays and one for private, both are Google cals and sometimes module has fetching issues.
I can’t figure what the problem is because behaviour is strange.

These are the cases that happened to me, everytimes on startup:

• no default calendar events, no ext3 events
• default and ext3 shows only holiday events
• default shows nothing, ext3 shows some events

@sdetweil
Yes, I knew how CEC work, but in my case I have an LCD controller and I have check his behaviour.

Lucky me, when video signal is off, the controller stay in standby with a completely black screen.
This will be perfect, but only if the RemoteControl command will stop or cut-off the video signal, instead of sending a CEC turning off signal.
That was my doubt