PIR-Sensor - put your mirror to sleep if not used

[AlessandroRa]

@yawns thank you, that solved it! Now I need to understand why nothing happens even if I wave in front of the sensor…
I’m starting to think that the PIR sensor doesn’t work

[Them Russians]

Hey all,

I am a relative novice when it comes to the Pi, and have been trying to identify why I am unable to install the dependencies via “npm install”.

I cloned the repository into my “modules” folder via the “git clone…” command (Step 1).

I then navigated into the new “MMM-PIR-Sensor” folder and ran “npm install”.

However, I got an error during the install suggesting I have an issue with electron-rebuild. Is anyone familiar with what could cause this error to be thrown, and what I could do to resolve it?

Here is the error:

Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor@1.1.0 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor
electron-rebuild -e …/…/node_modules/electron-prebuilt
An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild
Unable to find electron-prebuilt’s version number, either install it or specify an explicit version
Error: Unable to find electron-prebuilt’s version number, either install it or specify an explicit version
at _callee$ (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/electron-rebuild/lib/cli.js:74:17)
at tryCatch (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:63:40)
at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:337:22)
at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/regenerator-runtime/runtime.js:96:21)
at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.tryCatcher (/home/pi/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
at PromiseSpawn._promiseFulfilled (/home/pi/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/generators.js:97:49)
at /home/pi/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/generators.js:201:15
at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/electron-rebuild/lib/cli.js:197:4)
at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.38-v7+
npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/nodejs” “/usr/bin/npm” “install”
npm ERR! node v6.9.2
npm ERR! npm v3.10.9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor@1.1.0 postinstall: electron-rebuild -e ../../node_modules/electron-prebuilt
npm ERR! Exit status 255
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor@1.1.0 postinstall script ‘electron-rebuild -e …/…/node_modules/electron-prebuilt’.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! electron-rebuild -e …/…/node_modules/electron-prebuilt
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor
npm ERR! Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/npm-debug.log

[elmerito25]

@cpramhofer Were you able to fix your problem?

[Nususu]

@jrleeman Hi I have the same issue that you do with the on signal only being put out for about a second after motion detection. Did you ever find a way to make the mirror stay awake for longer with the timer being reset by any motion signal?

[Them Russians]

@Nususu Did you have any issues with the npm install of this module? I am still unable to install the module :(

[Jopyth]

Please continue discussion about install issues here. There is already info on how it can be solved. For other problems with the PIR-Sensor Module please open a new thread in the troubleshooting section.