@chris47803

I think this

604] [ERROR] Got error: connect ECONNREFUSED 1

@chris47803 cant start it again if already running…

[21.06.2026 16:15.02.196] [ERROR] Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:8080
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1313:16)

if using pm2 to launch

pm logs --lines=xxx

xxx is number of most recent lines, default 15

or

pm2 stop all

then
npm start
to see the output
ctrl-q to close MM window

pm2 status

then

pm2 start xx

where xx is the name or number on the row of the app from the status output

@chris47803 can you look in the messages put out from the npm start, the module produces an error message in certain cases

@amanzimdwini typically you would open an issue on the module GitHub page to engage the author. As most dont visit the forum regularly

@chris47803 please try to use code block around logs and config

in this message editor

paste the text, blank line above and below
select the text you just pasted
hit the </> button above in the editor toolbar

or, manually
on a blank line above the text, three backticks, left of the 1 on the US keyboard
on a blank line below the test, three backticks

you can have multiple wrapped sections in a message
the code block must be the only thing on its line and be at the beginning

@KristjanESPERANTO but you mentioned you were working on one too…

@BravoOscar who are you replying to ?

@daedalus7 one other focus area for MMM-Config,
most of our ‘developers’ have never written a line of code before…
they just want something displayed on the MM screen…

so, I have done everything I can to make this a NO effort added value for them too.

i don’t read the code to figure out how variables are used, and looking thru the modules, this only applies in less than 10 of now 1418 modules

the mod to make a select list vs a text entry field is to add an
enum:[choice1, choice2, choice3…]
to the form definition

and sometimes what you CAN do in javascript, doesn’t fit to the form UI at all, so one can convert back/forth with a converter routine to make it better… see the compliments module for example

@msimon360 i’d love your feedback on a new feature

I don’t provide support to upgrade individual modules.
thinking about this

should it only list those modules IN USE? or ALL modules ‘cloned’ into the modules folder (note ‘installed’ is a vague term here)

as a developer of this module , I have 100’s of modules ‘cloned’, but only a few (in use) at any time

I don’t want to burden the user with unnecessary things to work on. but don’t want to make them do things over and over from being too selective(Oh added another module to the active config, but its downlevel… oops)… (and I don’t WANT to provide a config option, cause NOBODY (me included) reads the doc)…

maybe its just a checkbox on the page in use/all

@msimon360 use the search in the 3rd party list…
links in the header of this forum

@DerHerrB if you install something like Tailscale on phone, laptop and system running MagicMirror, then you can have direct personal access as if you were on the same lan.

Free, No open ports, no network configuration

I do this to access MagicMirror, hope Assistant , my synology nas, and have used it to monitor my 3d printer.(via octoprint)

@daedalus7

See my MMM-Config.
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Config

It supports the base MagicMirror and all modules.

It does not require a specific set of options, but auto discovers the module definitions
It supports the module defaults, can provide select lists, booleans, numbers, floats, structures, arrays. And field level help

Also supports live view of the module readme, in both install and configure scenarios

A module developer can create a json file to describe their module config if the auto generated format isn’t sufficient.
See the wiki on creating the custom module form definition
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Config/wiki
I have helped a few module authors in this process. and I have created a few customized forms, which MMM-Config ships to cover the modules not being maintained but used

The objective of MMM-Config is to

• support the modules(1400+) as is( some are not maintained, but heavily used),

• allow extended customization, (as you suggest), see the wiki, I provide a tool to generate the form for a module so that it can be tweaked instead of developed from scratch

• provide a common ui structure, for the base and modules,

• support modules that support multiple instances ( calendar and weather are good examples) ,

and do this as one view, everything all at once.

The ui can be customized thru css

The current version also provides support for module installation, using the data from the 3rd party module list

@S374n yes, MagicMirror will run on a system with a touch screen

We don’t provide any touch support in the base modules, but there are a few. Chores has one

The os is not important. MagicMirror runs on Windows, Linux or Mac

@KristjanESPERANTO or fix the package.json

@Qthulhu you could do both on one npm install

npm install node-fetch@2 cheerio

Sorry, you were talking about refreshing the application defs on pm2.

No, dont do that, never seen any side effect til now

Will add it to the work list here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/issues/125

@ember1205 it is Debian based for sure.

Doesn’t work in lxc’s, or other container types, docker

The upgrade-script, starting on line 496 is the code for pm2 upgrade

That was also extracted to upgradepm2.sh
If you wanted to do it separately

@ember1205 the upgrade script does

@ember1205 awesome info!! Thanks for the update

@ember1205 said:

likely because the serverOnly config setting wasn’t working.

the serverOnly config only works with my run-start.sh script,
and was removed from the sample config.js a good while back.

for the node 18 thing,
if you disable the extra modules (make a new config.js, or use the sample, and use the env variable

export MM_CONFIG_FILE=config/filename

to test

do you ses the same message?