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    Raspberry Pi Zero W for Magic Mirror

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      davidgagne @sdetweil
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      @sdetweil Okay. I’m doing this right now.

      1. Flashed card with Legacy 32-bit.
      2. Connected via ssh to run your script.
        bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/raspberry.sh)"
        

        Answered yes to disable screen saver and use pm2 questions.

      3. Removed chromium with:
        sudo apt-get remove chromium-browser
        sudo apt autoremove
        
      4. Added Firefox with:
        sudo apt-get update
        sudo apt-get install firefox-esr
        
      5. Enabled VNC using sudo raspi-config GUI
      6. Connect via TigerVNC
      7. Edit mm.sh via VNC in Pi's baked-in text editor by adding:
        cd ~/MagicMirror
        export external_browser=firefox
        DISPLAY=:0 npm start
        
      8. sudo reboot

      9. Connect via ssh
      10. cd MagicMirror
        pm2 start MagicMirror
        
      11. And now -- finally! -- some progress:
        [PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/dvg/.pm2
        [PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
        [PM2][ERROR] Script not found: /home/dvg/MagicMirror/MagicMirror
        

      So … now what have I done wrong? What script is missing?

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        sdetweil @davidgagne
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        @davidgagne well…

        it seems the pm2 setup failed for some reason

        can you send me the ~/install.log

        my same userid at Gmail.

        you didn’t have to vnc to edit, nano works over ssh.

        because the pm2 setup was not completed,
        when you did pm2 start from the MagicMirror folder, it was trying to create the app MagicMirror command
        /home/username/MagicMirror/MagicMirror

        can you try to run the fixuppm2 script from my scripts page

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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          davidgagne @sdetweil
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          @sdetweil Here’s what I got after running your fixup script:

          [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
          [PM2] [MagicMirror](0) ✓
          ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
          │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
          ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
          │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 27952    │ 0s     │ 1    │ online    │ 0%       │ 2.5mb    │ dvg      │ enabled  │
          └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
          [PM2] Saving current process list...
          [PM2] Successfully saved in /home/dvg/.pm2/dump.pm2
          

          I’ll email install.log to you as soon as I can figure out how to … find and copy the install log.

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            sdetweil @davidgagne
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            @davidgagne and MagicMirror should have come up using firefox

            Sam

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              sdetweil @davidgagne
              last edited by sdetweil

              @davidgagne said in Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for Magic Mirror:

              I’ll email install.log to you as soon as I can figure out how to … find and copy the install log.

              you should install one of the windows ssh clients tools. Winscp or Bitvise ssh clients.
              they provide the typical ssh terminal AND also a windows file manager view of the remote system.
              so you can double click to edit on windows and automatically save the file back.

              bitvise also provides drag and drop file copy support to/from the remote system… for logs and credential files

              I use notepad++ or visual studio code to edit on windows.

              such a time saver!!

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                davidgagne @sdetweil
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                @sdetweil I am not going to bother sending you the install log because it worked!

                It took a long time to launch, but now I can see MagicMirror running when I VNC into the Pi.

                After running your fixuppm2 script I executed pm2 start MagicMirror and got this:

                [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
                [PM2] [MagicMirror](0) ✓
                [PM2] Process successfully started
                ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
                │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
                ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
                │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 28553    │ 0s     │ 2    │ online    │ 0%       │ 2.5mb    │ dvg      │ disabled │
                └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
                

                Now when I VNC into the Pi I see it running! So far the date and time is the only thing correctly displaying, but at least now MagicMirror is running. Thank you!

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                  sdetweil @davidgagne
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                  @davidgagne I am interested in the log to see why the inline pm2 setup failed.

                  yes, pi0w is not fast.

                  the default calendar and weather take configuration before they produce output.

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                    sdetweil @davidgagne
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                    @davidgagne you can also adjust the MagicMirror config so you can open your windows browser to see it too.

                    Sam

                    How to add modules

                    learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                      davidgagne @sdetweil
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                      @sdetweil I’m an Apple user. I am sure there’s something similar, though. Thanks.

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                        davidgagne @sdetweil
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                        @sdetweil It looks like I spoke too soon. After a reboot, I cannot seem to get any output from MagicMirror.
                        I rebooted and then called pm2 start MagicMirror from within the MagicMirror directory, and it seems to execute just fine. But … nothing happens. It doesn’t actually start the app, as far as I can tell. Even though the output seems the same:

                        [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
                        [PM2] [MagicMirror](0) ✓
                        [PM2] Process successfully started
                        ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
                        │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
                        ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
                        │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 4592     │ 1s     │ 148  │ online    │ 0%       │ 27.4mb   │ dvg      │ disabled │
                        └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
                        

                        Any ideas?

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