midori cant connect to localhost

[ottobot]

Got magicmirror to start on a pi zero following instrustions that I found on this forum. Now when midori starts I’m getting a connection refused on localhost:8080. I can ping localhost fine from terminal and I’ve added /120 in my whitelist.

[d-sanchez]

Did you figure out this error? I’m having the same problem

[ottobot]

Honestly, I didn’t. I spent a few days off and on trying to get things going, finally I reached out to someone on the forum that had a working image and used that. I have a few more zero’s floating around though and I’m planning on trying again from scratch this weekend.

[bbdv]

Hi Guy’s, I’m having the same issue here, stuck on midori telling me connection refused…

Im working on a pi zero w with jessie lite

[RV]

@bbdv @ottobot @d-sanchez i hope one of you, has found a solution for this problem?!

i have the same

[bbdv]

I have managed to get it working by adjusting the start up script in the etc/init.d/ directory:

Instead of:
cd ~/MagicMirror

I changed it to :
cd /home/pi/MagicMirror

Worked great for over 2 week… until I updated MagicMirror, the same error returned…
(Connection refused)

[bbdv]

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[bbdv]

Got it back to work by starting all over.

Here are my* notes/steps:
*)I have gathered all these steps from all the contributers on this site.

Start with a fresh Jessie lite image…

sudo apt-get update
sudo wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo apt-get install git
cd /home/pi/
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
cd MagicMirror
sudo npm install (This will take 30+ minutes)
sudo apt-get install midori
sudo apt-get install unclutter
sudo aptitude install xinit
sudo apt-get install matchbox
sudo nano /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          startMagicMirror.sh
# Short-Description: startMM
# Description:       starts MM
### END INIT INFO
cd /home/pi/MagicMirror
node serveronly &
sleep 20

sudo xinit /home/pi/startMidori.sh
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh
sudo update-rc.d startMagicMirror.sh defaults 100
sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils
sudo nano /home/pi/startMidori.sh

#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s off # disable screen saver
xset s noblank # don’t blank the video device
matchbox-window-manager &
unclutter &
midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost:8080

sudo chmod a+x /home/pi/startMidori.sh
sudo reboot

[janth]

@bbdv did you use Jessie or Stretch for that?

[meyraa]

@bbdv I had the same problem. Midori has problems with ES6 and the arrow functions. I just deinstalled Midori and installed chromium-browser.

You can rewrite the startMidori.sh

#!/bin/sh
unclutter &
xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s off # disable screen saver
xset s noblank # don’t blank the video device
chromium-browser --no-sandbox --disable-infobars --start-maximized --noerrdialogs --kiosk --incognito http://localhost:8080

If you want you can rename startMidori.sh to startChromium.sh, but don’t forget to rename it in the startMagicMirror.sh too.

My startMagicMirror.sh looks like this:

#! /bin/bash
cd ~/MagicMirror
node serveronly &
sleep 45
sudo xinit /home/pi/startMidori.sh