node_helper.js is not working?

vandy2424

@sdetweil Hopefully this is what you were looking for here:

jackson@raspberrypi:~ $ ps -ef | grep -i magic
jackson   1781   806  0 08:21 ?        00:05:02 geany /home/jackson/Documents/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Cocktails/node_helper.js
jackson   6037  1698  0 18:17 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i magic

sdetweil

@vandy2424 well, it’s something…

vandy2424

@sdetweil This is true, but in the backend log, none of my modules say they were loaded, and never have. Just mentions loading config and loading module helpers.

The clock & weather still work without showing they were loaded on the backend. (maybe this doesn’t matter since they don’t use a node_helper.js class).

sdetweil

@vandy2424 correct , weirdness…

MMRIZE

@vandy2424
Try ‘localhost’ or real IP instead of ‘0.0.0.0’.

vandy2424

@MMRIZE
I tried both localhost and the IP of my PI (LAN) and neither resolved the issue. Also, whether it matters or not, changing these also did not remove the WebSocket warning shown in the dev console.

MMRIZE

@vandy2424
Really weird.
Of course you are probably running MM as Electron standalone(not server/client). Hmmmm… How about your port forwarding on port 8080 on your home router or firewall? Something makes your ws not working.
Or… there is another process which is using that port as another ws instance.(but seems not possible… hmmmm) or proxy something maybe…

But I can’t guess any more sorry.

vandy2424

@MMRIZE
Yeah I’m not currently port forwarding at all right now and would have no reason to for 8080 anyways. But I really appreciate all your help! I can tell you that when I did a clean install of the Raspberry Pi OS, I have only installed MM and its dependencies.

All my libraries should be up to date. Maybe there is some strange clash going on with my library versions? Maybe I try to go to versions that you guys use (if they’re even different than mine)? Just some thoughts.

I’m glad that we are all at least on the same page of the strangeness going on here. Hopefully a lightbulb will pop up at some point and we can resolve the issue. Thanks again! :)

sdetweil

@vandy2424 ok the updatenotification and helloworld modules come from the js/defaults.js

I don’t see the path yet that does both.

sdetweil

@vandy2424 can you do

cd  ~/Documents/MagicMirror/config
ls -laF

vandy2424

@sdetweil Yes, here is the output:

jackson@raspberrypi:~/Documents/MagicMirror/config $ ls -LaF
./  ../  config.js*  config.js.sample  .config.js.swp

sdetweil

@vandy2424 lower case L

-laF

vandy2424

@sdetweil Apologies.

jackson@raspberrypi:~/Documents/MagicMirror/config $ ls -laF
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  2 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  9 19:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  2 10:27 ../
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root    root    1998 Feb  9 19:19 config.js*
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 3534 Feb  2 10:27 config.js.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 1024 Feb  2 12:12 .config.js.swp

sdetweil

@vandy2424

change the permissions owner and group
exit the editor

sudo chown jackson config.js
sudo chgrp jackson config.js

vandy2424

@sdetweil Okay I ran both of those commands.

sdetweil

@vandy2424 and try starting mm again

vandy2424

@sdetweil The calendar module still says loading… Everything else is the same as it was. Both logs show exactly the same as well.

sdetweil

@vandy2424 can you confirm the permissions change?

ls -laF

I can explain it

access to the file fails at startup time
fs.accessSync() js/app.js, line 117
so defaults is used… thats node helpers

file is loaded in the browser anyhow(index.html), and that controls module loading in browser

sdetweil

@sdetweil I will test in the morning

vandy2424

@sdetweil Yeah sure, the output actually looks the same even though I ran those commands:

jackson@raspberrypi:~/Documents/MagicMirror/config $ ls -laF
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  2 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  9 19:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  2 10:27 ../
-rwxrwxrwx  1 jackson jackson 1998 Feb  9 19:19 config.js*
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 3534 Feb  2 10:27 config.js.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 1024 Feb  2 12:12 .config.js.swp

And wow, its incredible you were able to find that. Thanks so much for the continuous help. Hopefully we are close!