Attempted to add MM-Remote-Control, now MagicMirror won't start

monkeyjb123

Hello everyone! I don’t have much experience so bear with me on this but I was setting up my MM when I decided to add in the MM-Remote-Control module. It took a while but after some tinkering I was able to get it to work via my phone by changing the ipWhitelist section to:

ipWhitelist: [],

Seemed to have work and was able to shutdown my pi with my phone. After rebooting and making some updates via the remote control to two modules I have, the mirror stopped working and no longer runs. I tried to restart the mirror as well as the pi but still does not work. This is the error message I receive

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm run start

> magicmirror@2.21.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:17
    throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again');
    ^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at getElectronPath (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:17:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:21:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/cli.js:3:18)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.21.0 start: `DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.21.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2022-12-17T20_57_05_651Z-debug.log

I previously had the MM autostart with pm2 but it no longer does this. Would appreciate any help.

sdetweil

@monkeyjb123 said in Attempted to add MM-Remote-Control, now MagicMirror won't start:

Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again

do

cd  ~/MagicMirror
rm -rf node_modules/electron
npm install electron@19.1.0

monkeyjb123

@sdetweil Thank you! Just did that and it is auto-running again. Some modules like the weather are no longer showing up and the font has changed on the mirror

sdetweil

@monkeyjb123 I don’t know what you did before.

I never use rmc to do updates

what does the pm2 log show?