Default Weather Module Stuck on loading.

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman did you do the npm install in the module folder?

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil I was pretty sure I did but I ran it again and rebooted the mirror to the same results. Still the same error as the above screenshot in the dev tools console. Not sure if it matters, but I do have the mirror booting headless. I don’t remember exactly but it’s part of the startup script so when I reboot the pi, it automatically runs MM and loads it onscreen

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman what do you mean headless?

If no display here, you need to do
npm run server

And access from somewhere else
Make sure to enable config.js to allow other machine access

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil sorry wrong terminology. It is running on a pi connected to a display. I meant headless in I don’t have peripherals on it, just ssh into it from my pc

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman how did you install MagicMirror

What version are you running

cd ~/MagicMirror 
grep version package.json

[fnmuffinman]

Sorry for the delay!

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil Hi, just checking in to see if you saw my last reply above! If not, I was going to create a new thread with all the troubleshooting you have graciously help me out with to start from there

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman I did, sorry been traveling.

Can you Open the developers window
ctrl-shift-I
Select the console tab
Add weath to the filter field

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil No worries, I figured you were probably busy! Here is what comes up

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman ok, a little more debug

cd ~/MagicMirror
grep nunj package.json

should return

		"nunjucks": "^3.2.4",

then

cd node_modules
ls nunjucks -laF

should return (I am on mac at the moment, with MagicMirror just installed, so dates will be different

drwxr-xr-x   10 sam  staff    320 Feb  3 08:20 ./
drwxr-xr-x  685 sam  staff  21920 Feb  3 08:21 ../
drwxr-xr-x    4 sam  staff    128 Feb  3 08:20 bin/
drwxr-xr-x   10 sam  staff    320 Feb  3 08:20 browser/
-rw-r--r--    1 sam  staff   2309 Feb  3 08:20 index.js
-rw-r--r--    1 sam  staff   1311 Feb  3 08:20 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x    3 sam  staff     96 Feb  3 08:20 node_modules/
-rw-r--r--    1 sam  staff   3138 Feb  3 08:20 package.json
-rw-r--r--    1 sam  staff   2127 Feb  3 08:20 README.md
drwxr-xr-x   23 sam  staff    736 Feb  3 08:20 src/

then I want to redo the MagicMirror npm install

cd ~/MagicMirror
rm -rf node_modules
npm install

then restart MagicMirror however you do it…

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil alright so i ran those commands. when I got to

ls nunjucks -laF

It returned that directory did not exist, which i would imagine is part of my issue. I then continued with the rest of the commands, then I got this error.

For context, recently I saw notifications on my mirror stating some modules needed to be updated. I ran through the docs for updating those but it’s possible I messed that up and caused myself a bigger problem here.

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman ah…

Node 23 is bad , so we won’t install there

So try either of these commands

n —version
nvm —version

Do either exist?

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil it appears neither do

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman good, thx

Do this

sudo npm install -g n
sudo n 22.21.1
hash -r
node -v

Should show v 22.21.1
If not stop and advise

If ok
Then do

cd ~/MagicMirror 
npm install

Then start MagicMirror

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil IT WORKS!! I cannot thank you enough for your time and patience with the help on this. I have learned alot from walking through this troubleshooting with you. Are you able to tell me what I may or may not have done wrong to cause it to stop working?

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman great news!! Thanks for the feedback

As for what happened

You upgraded nodejs at some point
And didn’t catch the npm install error message

So you had the new code (git pull) but not the runtime libs it needed

I recommend using my upgrade script in the future

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil gotcha! I would love to use a script instead of breaking things again lol where can i find your upgrade script and what does it all entail? does it upgrade Magic mirror and the modules or just MM itself?

[sdetweil]

@fnmuffinman the links are in the MagicMirror documentation

It does only MagicMirror

[fnmuffinman]

@sdetweil fantastic. Thanks again for all the help!!