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    cowboysdude Module Developer @morozgrafix
    last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 12:53 AM

    @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!

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      morozgrafix Moderator @cowboysdude
      last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 6:21 AM

      @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.

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        LincolnClay @morozgrafix
        last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 9:01 AM

        @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
        
        M 1 Reply Last reply Jan 21, 2017, 8:33 PM Reply Quote 0
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          cowboysdude Module Developer @morozgrafix
          last edited by cowboysdude Jan 21, 2017, 2:33 PM Jan 21, 2017, 1:51 PM

          @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!!!

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            cianoo45 @morozgrafix
            last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 2:06 PM

            @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

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              cowboysdude Module Developer
              last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 3:41 PM

              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…

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                morozgrafix Moderator
                last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 4:41 PM

                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.

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                  morozgrafix Moderator @LincolnClay
                  last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 8:33 PM

                  @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)

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                    cowboysdude Module Developer @morozgrafix
                    last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 8:48 PM

                    @morozgrafix Thanks for all the help!! I figured it out!!

                    Since I’m running on a mini-itx it has two display options… they were both running and the mirror was loading on option 1 that’s great but I’m using option 2.

                    SO I went into the settings and disabled option 1 in Unbuntu and BOOM… now it works ;)

                    M 1 Reply Last reply Jan 21, 2017, 9:07 PM Reply Quote 2
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                      morozgrafix Moderator @cowboysdude
                      last edited by Jan 21, 2017, 9:07 PM

                      @cowboysdude sweet I’m glad you got it working.

                      C 1 Reply Last reply Jan 21, 2017, 11:06 PM Reply Quote 1
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