@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??

@mvrlogins if you stop MagicMirror what is the temp?

@daportelli I’m not sure of the effect, but the keyword is treated as a regular expression. I don’t know if single quotes make a difference

Also don’t know if js regex works the same, from the code

@BravoOscar

Yes, buster is too old.

use my backup/restore scripts. You can save the backup to GitHub, or copy the folder off the someplace else.

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore

It’s small, only text files,

Use a new sd card for the new OS. <————-
Use my script to install MagicMirror,

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts
(You could have used the upgrade script if not for buster)

then use the restore to
Reinstall the modules and config/custom.css and any files created by modules

the getScripts() function would be used to load JS libs you would manually put a script tag in the head section of the index.html to be able to call.

the getTemplates() is to provide the names of the template (njk) files that will render the html for the module content… the getTemplateData() function returns the data object the template file will access

getDom() returns the complete Dom object of the content to be published for this module at this time. you can do some tricks to reduce content flash by not replacing everything.
save the wrapper value and update not replace content inside it.

@videogame95 always make backups

You can use my MagicMirror-backup-restore scripts
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore

I have also heard of Mycroft. , have no info
looking for mycroft the initial project has been ended.
others have taken over for the future…
one would have to build an interface(module) to MagicMirror from its implementations

@videogame95 I spent a few hours last winter trying to boot sd card on my pi5. Then realized it had nvme drive… Doah!

@snerk4000 understood. I only mention that cause once an hour is hard to test

Trying to give you other ways to test and verify

@snerk4000 and you have the schedule set to fire at 33 or 34 minutes after the hour

Only once every hour for each, right?

If you install MMM-Notifications you should able to see it.

The payload looks ok. Doesn’t need the type: only the values the receiving module would accept/need

You could try my MMM-CurlToNotification module to test the notification without schedule
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-CurlToNotification

@butchkemper ok, the module development doc is here

https://docs.magicmirror.builders/module-development/introduction.html

the doc says module, but I call the JS in the browser modulename,js
cause the NAME MUST match the ‘module name’ as used in config.js module:

the note I made above comes from this comment in the modules dev doc

Note 1: When a node helper sends a notification, all modules of that module type receive the same notifications.

socketNotifications are ONLY between modulename.js and the node_helper.js in this module package. and the functions use the same name on both sides
sendSocketNotfication and socketNotificationReceived

a typical way to deal with this is for the modulename.js to provide the this.identifier value as part of every request to the node_helper (sendSocketNotification), and for the node_helper to send that value back on each response, (sendSocketNotification)

and THEN the modulename.js checks to see if the response value matches its this.identifier… (in the socketNotificationReceived function) if NOT then the response is for some other instance
these 3 steps are missing from the pihole-stats module components

if you look at my sample module while reading the doc, you can see each piece
https://github.com/sdetweil/SampleModule (it does NOT use the this.identifier)

and there is a little flow info missing

the node_helper.js in a module folder gets loaded at server side startup
then the MagicMirror index.html gets loaded in the browser
MagicMirror reads the config.js and loads each modules modulename.js into the browser as a script element, then calls the loaded/init/getScripts/getTemplates/getTranslations/start methods, and then finally the getDom or getTemplateData functions…
once the content is loaded into the browser DOM, then a notification is sent
MODULE_DOM_CREATED
that means code could query and manipulate content with dom methods

later when the modulename.js determines that NEW content should be displayed, it calls this.updateDom() and then MagicMirror will call back at getDom or getTemplate data, and after updating the internal DOM , it will signal via the MODULE_DOM_UPDATED notification

modules should be good citizens, and stop updating after suspend() and resume updating after resume()

if you open the browsr developers window, ctrl-shift-i, and select the elements tab, you can see the html structure of index.html filled out with the module info.
scripts added to the head block and content added to the body block
and if you use something like the MMM-pages module, you can watch the css effects as content is hidden and shown

and you can use the elements tab to discover and experiment with different css styles on seleted elements to help create custom.css entries…
see the second link in my signature below for a post on that info

@butchkemper do you mean modules? or the base/core?

I’m not aware of anything that describes it if you don’t know how a browser works, or what a web page looks like in HTML.

@videogame95 currently there is no one developing a new voice module.

@butchkemper this module doesn’t provide support for multiple instances.

The system design of the node_helper sends a broadcast to ALL instances at once on every message sent.

The message needs to have some identifier the instance can check to see if the message is intended for it or not.

The current code does not provide that info

@videogame95 alexaVoice control depended on a fake electric outlet from Wemo. Belken bought Wemo years ago and just recently the Alexa plugin for this capability was removed because it was using old Alexa interfaces.

Mmm-pages only shows or hides modules, it doesn’t have any info about the module requirements. You have to read each module documentation, their README.md file,

@darlacollado calendarExt3 gets its events from the default calendar module

Yes, for skylight you will have to adjust css for everything
All changes go into custom.css to override those specified by MagicMirror and modules.

Remember that modules are see thru to view the background

@rkorell you could set a preinstall script in
package.json to erase the lock file

FulldayFormat is defined just below that

@Richard238 there is a date formatting code for both full day and not

See the doc