AH HA! So turns out you need to install as root - the regular pi user doesn’t have enough permissions to install socket.io which is a dependency of electron… The manual install instructions should be updated to state sudo npm install npm start Damian

@acrylicmfg I don’t mind you asking around, after a few post it seems that you don’t have that background that other forum people have. My answer would be that a video would be a good guide for you, try youtube

Thanks for the reply @broberg, I am not using SSH. I was using VNC, will that make any difference?

Hi thanks for the reply, I actually see the glaringly obvious mistake I made. ~ $ was already at the command line and I was retyping it. Thanks for helping me with this @in_a_days. I am now having a new issue getting the MagicMirror to start. I wondered if you might look over the problem. You can read about it here

@nameless the default compliments are merely examples, you can type in anything you want in any language you want in the config file to the compliments module

@morozgrafix Spot on, I do my dev on my MacBook and test in Chrome. I bet that’s what’s messing with it.

@strawberry-3.141 Trouble solved,Thanks again

@PhilsterM9 You change the settings by modifying the config.js file. Traditionally, you use the nano editor by typing nano ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js. If you go to the GitHub page for MagicMirror, there’s an entire section on configuration.

“pm2 restart mm” works like a charm. Much obliged! :)

@meneldour thanks for the offer! I will give this a shot in a few days and will keep your offer in mind. Really appreciated! Im really excited for this.

Hi, Are you running Automatic installation from README.md or following Manual Installation guide? It may be helpful to get some more information on steps that you did prior to this and exact command that you are executing. Also what version of node and npm are you running? You can find that by running following commands in your terminal: node --version and npm --version Thanks.

Hi, I have a problem with the news feed module. It doesn’t update anymore after approximately 24h. It’ll work again if I reload MagicMirror. (24h - then I need to reload mm again) Bad internet connection is normally not the problem because the wheater and calendar module working correctly. (Same problem: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/944/newsfeed-only-loads-once-then-stops-udating) Configuration: { module: 'newsfeed', position: 'bottom_bar', config: { feeds: [ { title: "Het Laatste Nieuws", url: "http://www.hln.be/nieuws/rss.xml" } ], showSourceTitle: true, showPublishDate: true } }, Error log: 0|mm | Use existing news fetcher for url: http://www.hln.be/nieuws/rss.xml 0|mm | Use existing news fetcher for url: http://www.hln.be/nieuws/rss.xml 0|mm | Whoops! There was an uncaught exception... 0|mm | MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection? 0|mm | If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

@MichMich Will try that! Maybe that will solve the problem!

@yawns AWESOME ;) thanks!

@Sillec123 I followed the steps in the Autostarting Magic Mirror tutorial. It was trivial to add the motion startup script to the list of processes for PM2.

I realize that this topic is about 2 months old, but I’m going to add some possible troubleshooting steps for anyone who may run into this problem. Hopefully OP already has this resolved. @Jeff while on RasPi terminal can you try to execute this command ping localhost? you should see output similar to this: $ ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.253 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.268 ms 64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.257 ms ... ... as you can see hostname localhost resolves to ip address 127.0.0.1 which is very common. you can also try to enter http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser. if the above works and after node serveronly is running, can you please try to execute following command curl -I http://localhost:8080? your output should be similar to this: $ curl -I http://localhost:8080 HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Powered-By: Express Accept-Ranges: bytes Cache-Control: public, max-age=0 Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 06:49:47 GMT ETag: W/"8da-15920249be6" Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 2266 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 23:09:37 GMT Connection: keep-alive if it’s not double check your config.js to make sure your server is running on port 8080

Looks great! Appreciate the quick fix and quick responses, wish more FOSS projects were this professional and responsive.

@Squirrel Yes, I forgot to mention that. You can also press ctrl + c in console to kill the mirror process. So you don’t have to close the terminal every time

thank you, will soon try.