Lost modules. Not showing after reinstall

[N6NG]

I had my MM working well… But all of a sudden when I modify one of the modules when I restart MM the module doesn’t show. I’ve had this happen with 6 of the 7 modules I had installed. Those I had installed were:
Clock
Calendar
MMM-Remote-Control
MMM-Weather
MMM -WeatherForcast
MMM-NewFeedTicker
MMM-RAIN-RADAR
MMM-Remote-Control

The only one that returned after reinstalling was the MMM-WallPaper. I of course have rebooted and power off and on several times to no avail. All were working fine until I started modifying the position because they were cramped the way they were. I’m to the point where I am thinking I need to format the chip and start from scratch. But if I do that, I can’t help but think it will happen again.
Anyone have an idea on what to try?
Thanks
Dennis

[N6NG]

@N6NG Well here is the story. I erased that module and started from scratch and put it back in. But it still didn’t show up on the MM. Here is what I found. In repositioning the individual screen locations they ended up overlaying other modules on the screen and rather than overlaying the visual of the other module it just didn’t show. When I went back and shrunk the size of the modules on the screen (going from ie: 400px by 400px to 200 px by 200 px it showed up again. I did this with other of the modules and they showed up again also. I haven’t finished all of them yet but I think it’s going to fix them all. I think that should solve all my invisible module problems.
Dennis N6NG

[N6NG]

@N6NG Just saw Sams reply to “@np27np27 want to see installers/upgrade.log” and will try that to see if it helps. I’ll report back .

[sdetweil]

@N6NG you reinstalled??

most of those modules are missing a dependent library

see
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/15778/fix-for-black-screen-in-2-16-and-later

upgrade handles this for you. install does not, as the modules aren’t there yet

[N6NG]

@sdetweil Well I did ok until I started installing the MMM-RAIN-RADAR module again. Then I got this error message.

Dennis Jacobson n6ngdennis@gmail.com

4:07 PM (2 minutes ago)

to Dennis

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RAIN-RADAR $ npm install MMM-RAIN-RADAR
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/MMM-RAIN-RADAR - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 ‘MMM-RAIN-RADAR@*’ is not in this registry.
npm ERR! 404 This package name is not valid, because
npm ERR! 404 1. name can no longer contain capital letters
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2022-05-08T22_59_38_815Z-debug-0.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RAIN-RADAR $ cd MMM-RAIN-RADAR

Dennis N6NG

[sdetweil]

@N6NG that’s all wrong. you just npm install

see the links in my signature below…

[N6NG]

@sdetweil followed the links and finally the npm install:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RAIN-RADAR $ npm install

up to date, audited 1 package in 2s

found 0 vulnerabilities

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to Dennis

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RAIN-RADAR $ npm install MMM-RAIN-RADAR
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/MMM-RAIN-RADAR - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 ‘MMM-RAIN-RADAR@*’ is not in this registry.
npm ERR! 404 This package name is not valid, because
npm ERR! 404 1. name can no longer contain capital letters
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2022-05-08T22_59_38_815Z-debug-0.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RAIN-RADAR $ cd MMM-RAIN-RADAR

[mumblebaj]

@N6NG Looks like you are doing an npm install MMM-RAIN-RADAR. This is not an npmjs module. In the ~/MagicMirror/modules folder you have to do a git clone https://github.com/jojoduquartier/MMM-RAIN-RADAR.git. From the github page doesn’t look like there are any dependencies to install afterward. Then just add module to you config.js and you should be good to go with it.

[sdetweil]

@mumblebaj he had the git clone, just added the module name to the npm install for some reason…

he seems to have fixed that…

[mumblebaj]

@sdetweil Ah ok. Module does not have any dependencies to install hence i thought he did it wrong way round.

[sdetweil]

@mumblebaj no package.json, so nothing to do and nothing gets done