Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Avoidance of Troubleshooting Q
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@ankonaskiff17 should not be any issues w config.js or custom.css
I havent tried the 64 bit myself yet.
glad to hear you are back from COVID. I spent 7 weeks in hospital early last year …
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@ankonaskiff17 SO I believe a few things have changed since. Some deprecated modules they got rid off i.e. request and some others. Modules that use them would be a problem. My suggestion would be to use Sam’s upgrade script which would check each module directory and fixup the missing dependencies for you.
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@mumblebaj good catch
also the direct reference
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/15778/fix-for-black-screen-in-2-16-and-later -
@sdetweil I did use your install script for the core installation and that is all fine and functional. I decided to give 64 bit a try because figured if the base MM didn’t like it, just reformat card and do 32 bit.
Hoping I can put MM SD card in laptop card reader and portable drive with files plug in to USB on laptop and it just be a copy/paste exercise in VSC.Most of modules I use are pretty basic. I had found a setup I liked and hoping it’s plug and play.
@sdetweil Glad you made it out of hospital.
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@ankonaskiff17 that should work…
u might want to look at my backup/restore scripts.
they backup config.js and custom.css and the URLs of all the modules u have installed
so 3 small files.
and then on restore copies back the 2 files and uses the URLs to reinstall all the modules and (fix the missing dependencies too)…
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore
I need to make them so they can be executed from the repo… but haven’t done that yet…
i made it so the 3 files are in a git repo, so you version them and then can restore any particular version…
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@sdetweil I was just reading the topic about fix for black screen and while I need to read several more times to get my arms around it, I was wondering if I can do those scripts on the files before I copy them over. Instead of ssh’ing in to Pi open terminal go to drive and see if they are problematic before moving?
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@ankonaskiff17 u can run the backup script on your sd folder… it takes a -s parm for source
(-h shows the syntax)this would create the 3 files…
then u could run the restore on the new system by copying the backup folder to the new system
(and -h shows syntax)this reinstalls the modules from github… not copies any of their files…
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@sdetweil Found my first 3rd party module lacking “request”. Your tutorial worked like a charm
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@ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil Found a new way scorch a Pi on this project.
Had a snap together case I put Pi in, snapped closed and I’ll admit, it to some muscle to snap case closed.
Shortly thereafter I caught the unmistakable odor of burning electronics.
I snapped the SD card so it was bent like 90°
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@ankonaskiff17 same here, oops… just snap the cover on…
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