MagicMirror on Pi Zero W

[strawberry 3.141]

@Hawking said in MagicMirror on Pi Zero W:

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/moment

it should look like this /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor/node_modules/moment do you have a package.json file in /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor?

[Hawking]

@strawberry-3.141 said in MagicMirror on Pi Zero W:

@Hawking said in MagicMirror on Pi Zero W:

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/moment

it should look like this /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor/node_modules/moment do you have a package.json file in /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor?

I have a directory /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor containing
package.json and vendor.js but noting more.

I now used npn version 2.14.7 (checked by npm -version) to

cd ~/MagicMirror/vendor
npm install

This gave

npm WARN package.json magicmirror-vendors@ No README data
font-awesome@4.7.0 node_modules/font-awesome
moment-timezone@0.5.13 node_modules/moment-timezone
weathericons@2.1.0 node_modules/weathericons
moment@2.18.1 node_modules/moment

and the folder /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor/node_modules/moment that you mentioned before was created.
I then rebootet (not sure if necessary) and it seems to work (I see the date and time, holidays,quote…). I’ll now set everything up but it looks way better then before.
So thanks a lot for your help!! I hope that your fix also works for the other people who have the same problem.

Just to understand the fix a bit better:
Is there a reason that one seem to have to do run
sudo npm install once in /home/pi/MagicMirror/ (this is already included in the initial post) and once npm install in /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor/? (this is not mentioned in the initial post and also not directly done by the standard installer (that does not work for the pi-Zero) located in /home/pi/MagicMirror/installers/raspberry.sh (at least I don’t see it therein).

[strawberry 3.141]

@Hawking the command npm install in the directory /home/pi/MagicMirror/ has a hook in the package.json file which automatically runs npm install in /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor as well, so there is no need to mention this because it’s done automatically ;)

[Hawking]

I now did a installation on a fresh image and used node version 6.6.1 which automatically includes npm 3.10.8. So instead of

sudo wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo apt-get install npm

I did

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdesalas/node-pi-zero/master/install-node-v6.9.1.sh | bash

Then I got later on no warnings about to old or insecure version any more but just

npm WARN prefer global coffee-script@1.10.0 should be installed with -g
npm WARN prefer global jsonlint@1.6.2 should be installed with -g
npm WARN prefer global colorguard@1.2.0 should be installed with -g

> electron-chromedriver@1.6.0 install /home/hawking/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
> node ./download-chromedriver.js


> electron@1.6.5 postinstall /home/hawking/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

npm WARN lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~install: cannot run in wd %s %s (wd=%s) magicmirror@2.1.1 cd vendor && npm install /home/hawking/MagicMirror
npm WARN lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~postinstall: cannot run in wd %s %s (wd=%s) magicmirror@2.1.1 sh installers/postinstall/postinstall.sh /home/hawking/MagicMirror

(in this installation I did not use the pi user, but I had the same problem when I used the default pi user).

If one knows the solution for the blank screen it is obvious that this is a strong hint that one should run

cd ~/MagicMirror/vendor/ && npm install 
cd ~/MagicMirror/ && sh installers/postinstall/postinstall.sh 

(the later at the moment just prints a success message and is therefore not really needed)
I don’t know why these commands did not work automatically, maybe an issue with some directories that are not set (I assume in the error instead of %s the directory should be displayed).

[Iseknutz]

I installed the image from https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero/84 , updated the System to use the onboard wifi and this works for me.

[Mitchfarino]

@Hawking Thanks for all your help and comments, I’ve managed to get it up and running now!

Now I just need to get the whitelist sorted :grimacing:

[Hawking]

@Mitchfarino said in MagicMirror on Pi Zero W:

@Hawking Thanks for all your help and comments, I’ve managed to get it up and running now!

No problem.

@Mitchfarino said in MagicMirror on Pi Zero W:

Now I just need to get the whitelist sorted :grimacing:

This worked fine for me, I just added the IP of my regular PC (e.g 192.168.2.185) to the list in the config file so that it looked like

ipWhitelist: ["192.168.2.185", "127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"],

If I then typed the ip:port (the port is also defined in the MM config, default is 8080) of my raspi (e.g.

http://192.168.2.170:8080/

) in the browser bar of my regular PC I could see the page also on my regular PC (took 1-2 seconds to load).
If this does not work for you, just open a new thread and provide details.

[CaptnJB]

BLANK SCREEN, NO CLOCK/CALENDAR/MOMENTS solved and simplified from other topics and posts:

After you follow the instructions in the first post to #23 then jump to here:

24 cd ~/MagicMirror/vendor
25 npm install
26 sudo reboot

I’m not a linux expert, but I built this a few weeks back before the latest version of MM and it worked flawlessly. There should be a hook in the original package.json that kicks it into the vendor directory and runs “npm install” there but it doesn’t happen now (5/3/2017).

Also, for those of you who do not have a monitor, after you SSH into your Rpi Zero W:
sudo raspi-config
5 interfacing options
P3 VNC
YES you want to enable the VNC server
reboot when it asks.

Use VNC Viewer or whatever, connect to your rpi using either ip address or if you set it up in your DHCP table with a :0 (zero) to see your screen or :1 to have a desktop.

CaptnJB

[kylelmartin]

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[kylelmartin]

@Iseknutz said in MagicMirror on Pi Zero W:

I installed the image from https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero/84 , updated the System to use the onboard wifi and this works for me.

@Iseknutz
At least I can get this method up and running on my RPI0w, but what’s the trick to updating the system to use the onboard wifi? I’ve created the wpa_supplicant.conf and I’ve even jacked with the etc/network/interfaces - but no luck getting it to connect to the network.
Thx