@plainbroke
well it is back MM is driving me crazy lately and that is a short drive for me. :grinning_face_with_sweat:

@sdetweil
Well that worked for a couple days but now it is back to “meow…”.
I removed and reinstalled and went in and changed that again.
Mine is on line 100 though.

So far 35 using Carousel to run through them 45 seconds a screen takes about a half hour to run through and get back to the beginning. Add until you can’t find room on the screen anymore.

@plainbroke
reloading 36 modules and getting them all to work as expected ,takes some time. Almost there today. MMM-RSTPStream is being difficult not wanting to play nice with vlc for some reason this round… Guess 5 different instances is too many. eventhough I have them spread out in the list of modules that carousel runs for me…

@sdetweil
I went all out and started fresh, I have the backups of all files that are not “default”. My modified files are backed up to 3 places after having an issue when my OpenMediaVault somehow became corrupted. Now I run a simple Samba file server. Really all I needed in the first place. Short answer is I wiped it SSD drive, so no upgrade.log to send you.

@sdetweil Well that got me no where. I still have the black screen and when I ctrl+m it says electron instead of MagicMirror.
So I just renamed MagicMirror to MM and reinstalled with your script I have the backup restore module saved so I can reinstall my modules quickly and with minimal effort. The mirror looks better already…

My MagicMirror was working and I was doing some customizing of the css ect. all went as planned. UNTIL, I ran “sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y” and when it was finished, “sudo reboot” Now I cannot get MM to start.
So I ran “npm outdated” and found electron missing.
So I found bugsounets electron install on GitHub.
“npm install magicmirror-rebuild --save” and ran it.
another “sudo reboot” still cannot get MM to start. pm2 shows it loaded and when I go into VNC , Using ctrl+m I see , electron instead of MagicMirror is minimised. What did I do wrong this is a fresh install a couple days ago.
pi@MM:~/MagicMirror $ npm -v
8.11.0
pi@MM:~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v16.16.0
pi@MM:~/MagicMirror $ npx electron -v
v19.0.9
pi@MM:~/MagicMirror $
Here are my electron, npm and node versions.

HELP…

@MMRIZE
I will be happy to test when I get back home. You have my email already.
Send me a link or whatever so I can try it when I get back or if can get this chrome book changed over so i can run a MagicMirror on it…

@BKeyport Ok thanks for the information…

@sdetweil
https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-DumbAssCatFacts
The readme has you go to RapidAPI.com and get an API.
From looking around in there, It looks like they use the same api for anything you want in their site… Ya I forgot he told someone on here he was out of contact for a bit…

@BKeyport
Where are you getting OMX so that it installs for MM?
Everywhere I look it fails to install or has dead links to the program’s dependents.
Please explain like you are talking to a child. I am still trying to figure this all out, one of these days it will hit me like a brick and I will not be bugging you all so much…

I have the same issue with VLC it is out of control on the size issue on my screen.

Hey @mykle1 ,
What am I looking for at RapidAPI.com to get this module to show something besides Meow ? I have an API but it does not seem to work.

@sdetweil said in Cron Job Question:

@plainbroke autoreconfig?

u don’t have to build motion, they have binaries (on every platform I’ve tried so far)

my script (launched by something outside mm)
creates an empty file in a known folder for each motion event

detected
ended

my module node_helper watches for those files to be created, and then sends notification to my module side to signal sleep or wake depending on the config.

the default folder is ‘motion’ inside the MMM-SleepWake folder

the script locates the running mm instance, and uses it’s path to locate the module folder and this it’s motion folder

the script assumes the path includes the username mm is running under and that username is used to set file permissions, so the module can remove them after processing the detection

So if I send a empty file ended to the motion folder in MMM-SleepWake that triggers the timer in config.js to blank screen?
and then in the morning send empty file detected to the same motion folder in MMM-SleepWake it should turn the modules back on.
Have I got this correct in my head or am I still wondering at sea?

@sdetweil
Ok that is what I was wondering. I am playing with it now. I WILL figure it out. I like the idea of it being blank we have enough ambient light from out side. (night time porch lights, I live out in the sticks.) for security lighting…

@Nneuland
Exactly and I have dimmer max set to 1 which should in my understanding blank the screen. It used to but since my reinstall of MagicMirror and all modules it does not seem to work correctly. I am in the process of removing it and reinstalling the dimmer module, to see if that is my problem… It also starts dimming 2 hours early but changing the dim timer has no effect. The reason for removal and reinstall today…

Anyone else getting this error when trying to update/upgrade?

W: Failed to fetch https://packagecloud.io/Keymetrics/pm2/debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease  429  Too Many Requests [IP: 54.215.170.165 443]
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

@sdetweil
What would the script code look like to do this manually instead of using the motion thing. I tried installing it but could not get it to work for me… the autoreconfig would not run at all… make just failed and one other step could not find certain files. There is no indication it actually installed. so I ran remove and it did. not sure where the motion program was installed in the first place I tried to install from inside MagicMirror/modules so I would be easier for me to find with no luck and when I tried to use find to find it nothing was found. Not my cup of tea for sure.

Thought if there is a way to run your script manually I would then just incorperate that into a cron job and be done with it.
The module I am running autodimmer still glows at night and you can see the modules faintly in the background…

@sdetweil

Ok was looking around for one of those chromebox deals and saw those… Will keep shopping…