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How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero)

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    randombullet
    last edited by Jan 10, 2017, 4:23 AM

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      randombullet
      last edited by Jan 10, 2017, 5:02 AM

      I’ve been working on this for a little bit and I’m sorry for all the incoming questions and posts on here.

      On sudo npm install, I get npm ERR! code EPEERINVALID.

      I’ve tried googling some answers but I’m not confident enough to figure this out. Also I’m writing the steps in a more linear way to make more sense of it this is what I have so far and I’d like some input so that I can help other people.

      Step 2
      My Jessie Lite didn’t allow me to create files for some reason. I posted on reddit here.

      Anyways the way of going around this is to put in a “wpa_supplicant.conf” file into your SD card and put the following in:

      network={
      	ssid=”YOUR_WIFI”
      	psk=”WIFI_PASSWORD”
      }
      

      This is what I have so far. Please look over this. Thanks in advanced!

      1 sudo wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
      2 sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb
      3 sudo apt-get install npm
      4 sudo apt-get install git
      5 cd /home/pi/
      6 git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
      7 cd MagicMirror
      8 sudo npm install #This will take a LONG time.
      9 sudo apt-get install midori
      10 sudo apt-get install unclutter
      11 sudo aptitude install xinit
      12 sudo apt-get install matchbox
      13 sudo raspi-config
      14 Boot Options -> B1 Desktop/CLI -> B2 Console Autologin
      15 sudo nano /home/pi/start.sh

      #! /bin/bash
      cd ~/MagicMirror
      node serveronly &
      sleep 45
      sudo xinit /home/pi/startMidori.sh
      

      16 Control + x > Y > Return
      17 sudo chmod a+x /home/pi/start.sh
      18 sudo mv /home/pi/start.sh /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh
      19 sudo update-rc.d startMagicMirror.sh defaults 100
      20 sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils
      21 sudo nano /home/pi/startMidori.sh

      #!/bin/sh
      xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
      xset s off # disable screen saver
      xset s noblank # don’t blank the video device
      matchbox-window-manager &
      unclutter &
      midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost:8080
      

      22 Control + x > Y > Return
      23 sudo nano /boot/config.txt

      disable_overscan=1
      framebuffer_width=1050
      framebuffer_height=1680
      framebuffer_depth=32
      framebuffer_ignore_alpha=1
      hdmi_pixel_encoding=1
      hdmi_group=2
      display_rotate=1
      

      24 Control + x > Y > Return

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        Burner911 @Wieber
        last edited by Jan 10, 2017, 4:43 PM

        @Wieber @Kobie

        Thank you for your help! Have you had any luck scheduling your monitor to turn on and off? I can’t get mine to work with the scheduler module.

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          Kobie @randombullet
          last edited by Jan 10, 2017, 4:50 PM

          @randombullet I got error when installing npm too, but can’t recall what they were. I just ignored them and everything works fine anyway. Try starting it up and see what happens.

          @Burner911 No sorry, I haven’t try that module, but as far as I’m aware running on a Zero should impact the modules at all so it could be a separate issue.

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            Burner911 @Kobie
            last edited by Jan 10, 2017, 4:59 PM

            @Kobie I’m worried it may be something with the limited processing power of the Pi. Since the scheduler relies on the remote module as well I double checked the remote module by trying to connect remotely from my phone, but the webpage would just hang. This may be an unrelated issue, but I’ll look into it more.

            When I shut down my mirror manually I see my email module is throwing errors in the background too so maybe that is drawing too many resources as well? Hard to say, I’ll report back if I find a solution.

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              randombullet @Kobie
              last edited by Jan 10, 2017, 6:18 PM

              @Kobie So even after I did all of my steps and there were no error I rebooted and came back to the terminal screen. I midori apparently didn’t launch. Also, after I did

              sudo cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js
              

              I was presented with a blank document. Is it supposed to have anything?

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                Kobie @randombullet
                last edited by Jan 11, 2017, 8:30 AM

                @randombullet I’m afraid I don’t think I can help much. I simply followed all the steps above and it worked for me. Perhaps you missed a step, but it would be hard to say what. Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to re-flash the jessi-lite image and go through the steps again :(

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                  bhepler Module Developer @randombullet
                  last edited by Jan 12, 2017, 3:43 PM

                  @randombullet I think your problem is with the sudo command. You shouldn’t need sudo to copy the config.js file. Check the permissions on the the config.js file. Make sure the npm process can read it.

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                    Burner911 @Kobie
                    last edited by Jan 13, 2017, 4:45 AM

                    @Kobie @Wieber Good news! Found out my mail module wasn’t connecting properly with my 2-step verification enabled. After switching to a “less secure app password” my mail app loaded correctly and no longer continued to stall and chew up resources in the background. As a result I was able to remotely connect once again and the scheduler works!

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                      SebTota
                      last edited by Jan 14, 2017, 9:40 PM

                      I followed all your steps… took me 4 tries to actually succeed (my very first Pi project ever)… but i get an error. It boots into MagicMirror2 but it says "please create a config file. See README for more information. " I went on GitHub and read the README file but no matter what i type in i cant find the config file. Please help me out. Huge thanks!!!

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