Accessing config.js and file explorer on laptop

sdetweil

@British_Kiwi you can setup vnc on the pi
then use the vnc app on windows to open the desktop on pi
you have to install the vnc client on your laptop

or you can install Bitvise ssh client or Winscp ssh client
both provide file manager views of the pi system
and you can double click edit files from your pc. using a pc editor ( i use notepad++)

i like bitvise better, it provides an ssh window too for executing commands
and a drag/drop window for copying files in either direction (logs for sure)

both are free

British_Kiwi

@sdetweil that’s great thanks. My job for the morning! Im sure I’ll have more questions then 😀

TheBodger

As an alternative, try winscp. this enables easy movement of files between windows and PI and editing local files on the PI with a simple editor.

British_Kiwi

@TheBodger thanks. I ended up doing Bitvise, finally got it working. Made such a huge difference. I did come across a load of errors on running (npm run start) that I think I’d been selectively ignoring, but a search on the forum seems that most people just ignore it, so will do so for now.

sdetweil

@British_Kiwi can you post those errors

There shouldn’t be any, anymore

BKeyport

@British_Kiwi Like they said, vnc, a SSH client, or, the best solution, IMO, Raspberry Connect (https://connect.raspberrypi.com/)

Also, you could use https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-samba/ - and network serve your magic mirror directories to your internal lan, then any editor in a more user friendly style (I recommend sublime text)

If you choose to go the samba route via pimylifeup, you can read the section where you create a shared path, but instead change the “homes” section this way - and you’ll gain access to your entire user directory on the Pi.

#======================= Share Definitions =======================

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = yes

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the
# next parameter to 'no' if you want to be able to write to them.
   read only = no

# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
   create mask = 0700

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
   directory mask = 0700

# By default, \\server\username shares can be connected to by anyone
# with access to the samba server.
# The following parameter makes sure that only "username" can connect
# to \\server\username
# This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes
   valid users = %S

British_Kiwi

@BKeyport thanks for all the options. I might try some later and see which I prefer. Seem to be able to use BitVise so far, though realised if I run it from the command prompt and then close the prompt, MM disappears, but that’s okay for now.

British_Kiwi

@sdetweil thanks for helping with this. I have just done a quick linked in learning about Linux command prompt, which is helping, but I have a feeling I might have been trying to install things more than needed. I can’t get pm2 to work, though looks like there is a folder.

These are the errors that seem to appear, I did find some other posts and tried them, but either I didn’t do them properly or this isn’t the same thing.

[2025-07-29 06:47:24.231] [LOG]   Sockets connected & modules started ...
[19099:0729/064724.417901:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.418394:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.418868:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.419141:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.419366:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.419542:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.419930:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.420206:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.420709:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.420904:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.421163:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.421323:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.421518:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.421654:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.421898:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.422074:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.424348:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.425449:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.425746:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.425962:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.426177:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.426333:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.426521:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.426656:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.426836:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.426967:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.427177:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.427351:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.427549:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.427678:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.427836:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:79] Failed to get fd for plane.: No such file or directory (2)
[19099:0729/064724.428024:ERROR:ui/gfx/linux/gbm_wrapper.cc:261] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[2025-07-29 06:47:24.453] [LOG]   Launching application.
[2025-07-29 06:47:24.865] [INFO]  System information:
### SYSTEM:   manufacturer: Raspberry Pi Foundation; model: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1; virtual: false
### OS:       platform: linux; distro: Debian GNU/Linux; release: 12; arch: arm64; kernel: 6.12.34+rpt-rpi-2712
### VERSIONS: electron: 36.6.0; used node: 22.17.1; installed node: 22.17.1; npm: 10.9.2; pm2: 6.0.8
### OTHER:    timeZone: Australia/Melbourne; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined

There is a further error to do with MMM-Remote Control, but I think that one looks straightforward (could not get calendar defaults - will check this later)

Any suggestions? Thanks again!

sdetweil

@British_Kiwi try

npm run  start:wayland

British_Kiwi

@sdetweil sorry for the delay in responding, have been at work.

I seem to be getting different responses when I do this straight into the RPi and if I do it through BitVise.

On the command prompt on the RPi, if I type ```
npm run start:wayland


On the terminal through BitVise if I do the same command, it doesn't run and I get this:

> magicmirror@2.32.0 start:wayland
> WAYLAND_DISPLAY="${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:=wayland-1}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

[2025-07-29 21:22:53.476] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.32.0
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.486] [LOG] Loading config …
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.487] [LOG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.680] [INFO] Checking config file /home/admin/MagicMirror/config/config.js …
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.715] [INFO] Your configuration file doesn’t contain syntax errors :)
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.716] [INFO] Checking modules structure configuration …
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.750] [INFO] Your modules structure configuration doesn’t contain errors :)
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.751] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.752] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.810] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.810] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.810] [LOG] No helper found for module: MMM-CalendarExt3.
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.811] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.840] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.840] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.859] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.859] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-Remote-Control
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.859] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.863] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 …
[2025-07-29 21:22:53.864] [WARN] You’re using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs
[2025-07-29 21:22:54.124] [LOG] Server started …
[2025-07-29 21:22:54.129] [LOG] Connecting socket for: calendar
[2025-07-29 21:22:54.130] [LOG] Starting node helper for: calendar
[2025-07-29 21:22:54.130] [LOG] Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[2025-07-29 21:22:54.130] [LOG] Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[2025-07-29 21:22:54.131] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-Remote-Control
[2025-07-29 21:22:54.131] [LOG] Starting node helper for: MMM-Remote-Control
[2025-07-29 21:22:54.136] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …
[6004:0729/212254.138193:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_connection.cc:202] Failed to connect to Wayland display: No such file or directory (2)
[6004:0729/212254.138473:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/ozone_platform_wayland.cc:277] Failed to initialize Wayland platform
[6004:0729/212254.138558:ERROR:ui/aura/env.cc:257] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.
/home/admin/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGSEGV

On Bitvise if I missout the wayland bit then MM will load, but those error messages appear.