@sdetweil
I just made it work, I am so happy
the commands to start it are
pm2 start 0
and to stop
pm2 stop 0
works that is how my MagicMirror starts in the mornings and stops at night…
pm2 is like magic…
Thanks for the help
I will give it a run overnight and see how crontab handles the commands.
You always have an answer that triggers my thought process to make it work.
Thank you Sam I appreciate your efforts to teach us that are not too bright…

@sdetweil

I figured out I had to remove the && ctrl C and now it just opens the one tab.
DISPLAY=:0 chromium http://192.168.1.177:8083/live
is all that is inside the Camera.sh file now, it now works.
So I can now start it up with crontab -e
I can use killall chromium and it shuts it down.
But then pm2 restarts it for me automatically.
How do I get pm2 to stop watching for the shut down?

@sdetweil

DISPLAY=:0 chromium https://www.google.com &

opens the chromium web browser with google just fine, but then I get this error over and over again.

[4886:4886:1201/195513.105659:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(79)] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[4886:4886:1201/195513.105747:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(262)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)

any idea why that would be happening? It doesn’t start until the web browser actually starts up on my screen. I can ctr c and it stops and the web browser stays running like I want it to.

I made a Camera.sh and pasted.
DISPLAY=:0 chromium 192.168.1.177:8083/live & ^C
PM2 start Camera.sh
PM2 save

AND

it works kind of, the problem now is it just keeps running and loading tab after tab until I kill it.
What am I not doing correctly.?

I am trying to get PM2 to start firefox when I boot raspi 4 running bookworm.
I have the browsers home page set to my tinycam pro web page display (local)
It works great if I start it manually but would like it to start from my crontab -e and shut down the same way I just do not understand the syntax I need to use to get Firefox to start using crontab.
Probably making it harder than it really is…
Thanks in advance.
Jeff

@DDE12

You can try MMM-Fuel you have to use gasbuddy instead of autoblog.
It works for me at least for now…

@sdetweil
Wow, Thanks, I finally figured out what you have been trying to tell me.
Found the wording to make it big enough to read now…
\Thanks for you help Sam…

What am I missing to get the gray line above the line to the same size. Here is my css.

.MMM-CoupleDays .header {
        Font-size: 85px;
        Line-Height: 87px;
        Text-align: center;
}

.couple-days-content {
        font-weight: 400;
        Font-size: 85px;
}

.couple-days-wrapper {
        font-weight: 400;
        Font-size: 85px;
}

.couple-days-header {
        font-weight: 400;
        Font-size: 85px;
}

@Ray
You can try changing from autoblog to gasbuddy. Works for me…

@sdetweil

Again, Thank you for the help.

@sdetweil

Thank you for the help Sam.
You are the man…

@sdetweil

This is what I have in my css file.

.date_counter header {
border: 10px solid black;
}

@sdetweil

This is what I have for my css and my js . I think I need to somehow put the colors in the css, but I can not figure it out again. I probably have the config somewhere just have not had the “want to” to find it again. Having a bunch of issues since having Covid last month… Hopefully it will clear up soon…

CUSTOM CSS:
.calendar .symbol {
        Margin-left: 10px;
        Text-align: left;
        Color: #15b1fd;
        Font-size: 34px;
        Line-Height: 35px;

CONFIG JS
                {
                        module: "calendar",
                        header: "Birthdays/Dr.Appt",
                        position: "top_left",
                        config: {
                                fade: false,
                                maximumEntries: 16,
                                timeFormat: "absolute",
                                urgency: 3,
                                getRelative: 24,
                        calendars: [
                        {
                                symbol: "birthday-cake",
                                name: "Birthdays",
                                url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical$
                                color: "#09a6f3"
                        },
                                {
                                symbol: "briefcase-medical",
                                name: "DrAppt",
                                url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical$
                                color: "#f30819"
                        },
                                ]
                        }
                },

Have you looked at MMM-DateCounter? I think it can do what you are looking for.

I want to get rid of or Center the line under the HEADER. Even all the way across would be fine.

I have 4 calendars setup in the default calendar, the symbols where all different in color and symbol I have cake (blue), car(green), briefcase (red), and a calendar (yellow). BUT all of them are showing up blue instead of the individual colors assigned in the config.js

@sdetweil

MMM-PhoneDetect, I just want to use it to turn the screen off and on if one of is home. My dogs ignore MM anyways.

@sdetweil
Can I hide this module ?
It would be great to use and I think instead of the shut down monitor, I can us pm2 stop all and pm2 start mm to shut off display, like I do in my crontab. I leave the monitor on all the time as a night light basically very little light come of it cause I use a black background and the toolbar is set to small with a black background. What do you think can this be made to work…?

@lazerclone
@sdetweil
Thank you both for your help it actually works like you say…
As long as I can keep our power on.
We are getting a string of storms here in Kansas and we are evidently dead center of their paths.
So far I have lost a HDD in my Mirror
The Hdd in my main computer windows.
and now the damn A/C pooped out.
Storm season should be over and oven on high season should be the norm.
Welcome to Kansas.

@sdetweil
Well it could have only the one. I could put clock and compliments in the ignore part. if that would make a difference?

@TDMPro2K
Way to think outside the box. Great work around.