Npm start...

[broberg]

this doesn’t really help you, but this guy has the same issue on a PI :

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1464/launching-application-nothing-happens

[morozgrafix]

@cowboysdude I will try to reproduce on my machine in a few hours when I get home and will report back.

[cowboysdude]

@morozgrafix said in Npm start...:

@cowboysdude I will try to reproduce on my machine in a few hours when I get home and will report back.

Thank you!

[morozgrafix]

@cowboysdude I managed to get it up and running locally on a super old system running Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. I had some trouble starting electron via SSH when running DISPLAY=:0 npm start, but npm start worked just fine

Here is a list of steps that got it running (i’m running node v6.9.4 and npm v4.1.1):

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node --version
curl -sL https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sudo -E bash -
npm --version
cd MagicMirror/
cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js
npm install
npm start

Not sure if this will help. You can always try to run verbose mode npm start --verbose to see if there is any information that may lead you to finding a reason why it doesn’t start. It was very sluggish on my system, but this is a very old computer.

P.S. Sorry it took me a while to get to try it out and get back to you. It has been a very long and exhausting day.

Good luck.

[LincolnClay]

@morozgrafix Thank you so much for this. I finally got it up and running following your method.
I did it on a Raspberry pi 3 and after adding in a few more sudo’s it worked!

sudo apt-get install git
sudo git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
sudo curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node --version
sudp curl -sL https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sudo -E bash -
npm --version
cd MagicMirror/
sudo cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js
sudo npm install
npm start

[cowboysdude]

@morozgrafix Thank you!! Going to have one coffee then try it LOL

No need to apologize I know how you feel… Long days will do that :)

I appreciate the help!!!

[cianoo45]

@morozgrafix said in Npm start...:

@cowboysdude I managed to get it up and running locally on a super old system running Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. I had some trouble starting electron via SSH when running DISPLAY=:0 npm start, but npm start worked just fine

Here is a list of steps that got it running (i’m running node v6.9.4 and npm v4.1.1):

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node --version
curl -sL https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sudo -E bash -
npm --version
cd MagicMirror/
cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js
npm install
npm start

Not sure if this will help. You can always try to run verbose mode npm start --verbose to see if there is any information that may lead you to finding a reason why it doesn’t start. It was very sluggish on my system, but this is a very old computer.

P.S. Sorry it took me a while to get to try it out and get back to you. It has been a very long and exhausting day.

Good luck.

When i follow these steps it says i have node V4.0.0 installed

[cowboysdude]

No go. It is loading and it opens a seperate tab on the side panel but does not display…

So I’m trying to figure it out… has to be something in the output of the mirror… it’s launching just not on the TV… which I have hooked up to HDMI…

[morozgrafix]

I’m replying from my phone at the moment and will post full reply to all later when I’m in front of my computer.

When I said “but npm start worked just fine” I meant I was running it from terminal on Ubuntu box and not through SSH from my MacBook.

[morozgrafix]

@LincolnClay I’m glad it all worked out for you. But I would be careful adding sudo command to everything. You may run into permissions issues. The reason why you need to use sudo when installing packages with apt-get is because you need to have elevated privileges as you are making system wide changes. Cloning MM repository in your home directory shouldn’t require sudo, if you use sudo to clone all files will belong to root user and your user (usually pi) will not have permissions to create or modify files in MagicMirror directory (which opens a whole different can of worms).

TL;DR version: try to use sudo only when necessary.

@cowboysdude Do you have only one monitor (your TV through HDMI) to your Ubuntu box? Also you may want to attempt to run https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start just to see electron app running on your rig completely outside of MM codebase.

@cianoo45 are you still having problems starting the MM? That writeup was specifically for @cowboysdude who was trying to get MM setup on his Ubuntu system. You should be fine with npm v4.0.0 (on my RasPi I’m running node v6.9.2 and npm v3.10.9 if that matters)