see https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/2831

@sdetweil Thanks for the suggestion. You were right. It was a Home Assistant automation going haywire. The automation switched off the screen via MMM-remote-control. On top of that somehow the “blank screen” option in the Pi settings was turned on again (no clue why, maybe after the last update). Anyhow I now tamed the automation and turned off the blank screen again and now it seems to be working normally again

@wolffenstine should not have position specified… see the config.js.sample

@sdetweil thanks a lot, will try it tomorrow 👍

@N6NG further the instructions said NEVER EVER do this (npm init ) in the MagicMirror folder if you do/did, then do git checkout package.json to restore the package.json file I guess I need to add more words if you DID do npm init -y IN THE MagicMirror folder then you need to fix this. do cd ~/MagicMirror git checkout pakckage.json then go back to the module folder cd - an resume the fix instructions then go

@sdetweil ok …thanks

@kayakbabe yes requiring hardware makes it another challenge…

@sdetweil said in SharedImageManager::ProduceSkia: Trying to Produce a Skia representation from a non-existent mailbox.: @lif yes… currently 64 bit mode is sketchy in my opinion OK

@Narya so. your home network can’t be seen for outside your home unless you do some extra work configure your router to allow incoming requests(off by default) so, let’s say u want users outside your house to use a url like http://fribble.home.someplace.com:8023 then your router has to pass that request only the machine on your network running MagicMirror on port 8080 this is called port forwarding now the next challenge is to locate your router on the internet, as connected by your isp. by default the isps give out addresses via DHCP , and do not register a name for each home/router. you can find the address using the https://www.hashemian.com/whoami/ url on your machine running MagicMirror you can use the ip in your qr, http:ip_address:8023 now. ‘most’ of the time your router will retain one IP address. but it CAN abd DOES change there are services that can map a fixed name to an isp IP address. I use dyndns.org, and my router keeps the setting up to date. ( a Google search will find other ddns services) then your qr code would use the fixed name and port used in the port mapping. now, SOME isps don’t allow incoming requests on normal accounts. I’ve had two over the last 20 years that required a special static address account ( for more money) where would u post your qr for them to use from their phone?

@Foxy25 It’s a warning, not an error. Likely no issue. Something we don’t use. I brought it up solely because it’s there.

@N6NG yeh, long threads get no summary

@sdetweil Thank you.

@sdetweil let config = { address: "0.0.0.0", // Address to listen on, can be: // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface // - "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface // Default, when address config is left out or empty, is "localhost" port: 8888, basePath: "/", // The URL path where MagicMirror is hosted. If you are using a Reverse proxy // you must set the sub path here. basePath must end with a / ipWhitelist: [], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses

@sdetweil Thank you again for your help today!!

@Redicaljk looks like the sw update updated node and messed everything up… to update MagicMirror (next release Oct 1) , see my scripts https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts they do all this remove/npm install for the base and every module and fix the missing libs too… I will add jsdom to the list

@MMRIZE Thank you very much. I will try it, but I need to start it in a few days because of me. Thank you for your guidance

@N6NG no. not yet… too many issues

@derOJ hm… let’s open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i, and select the console tab put a unique part of the name of your module in the filter field. it will show only messages from your module. and select the elements tab click the upper left point of the element tab and navigate it over your image element. the css tree for your module content will be displayed. typically for a module, we use a div as the container for all the module content, and return that from the getDom() routine. mm the inserts that div element tree in the correct ‘position’ what is the url specified in your modules config.js section?

@doubleT for the screen size, look in the magicmirror doc for the electron options, you’ll want the full screen option probably. but you can set width and height too. You make these changes in your magicmirror config.js When messing with modules and stuff, I generally set my screen size width and height to about half of my monitor so I can edit config and things comfortable on the same screen. tips: Ctrl+m will minimize electron and thus magic mirror, if you need to get to the desktop and are running full screen. click on teh electron instance then ctrl+r will reload magic mirror. That way you don’t have to completely stop and reload when you are messing with css or config. At least 90% of the time ctrl+r wll be enough.

@CheapDad see https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4089/complete-walkthrough-install-magicmirror-on-a-pc-windows-7-10/225?_=1659891805957