How to MANUALLY install MM on your Pi. For absolute beginners.

noorm91

How do you apply after each module you try out? Is there a way or do you have to reboot every time?

Mykle1

@noorm91 said in How to MANUALLY install MM on your Pi. For absolute beginners.:

How do you apply after each module you try out? Is there a way or do you have to reboot every time?

You don’t have to reboot the Pi to launch MM after adding a module. Assuming you quit MM before you added the module, you simply launch MM as you normally would

noorm91

@Mykle1
The MM autostarts when booting up the Pi, what’s the command you use to apply/run the config.js right after you save it?

Mykle1

@noorm91 said in How to MANUALLY install MM on your Pi. For absolute beginners.:

The MM autostarts when booting up the Pi, what’s the command you use to apply/run the config.js right after you save it?

When the mirror is running, press your Alt key to drop down a menu bar. Choose Minimize from the Window menu. Assuming pm2 is autostarting for you, open a terminal and type pm2 stop mm to quit MM.

You can start MM after saving your config in the terminal by typing pm2 start mm, or if MM is still running, from the drop down menu, View, Reload

fox

The problem was the module watchdog !
Also with fresh install it throws errors with the newest update.

Fixed for me. Thank you @Mykle1 !!!

axellejamous

I don’t know if this is the right place for me to reply but I’m desperate.
I’m supposed to do a project for school with the MM but I can’t even seem to get it up and running.
I made an issue on the forum but so far I’ve gotten no replies :(

I followed these steps to reinstall the MM but instead of making my own config file I used the one provided. When I run it, the screen is black and I can see in dev tools that the “moment” npm package is having some issues but I can’t find any info anywhere on how to solve it or anyone that has a similar issue.

Mykle1

@fox said in How to MANUALLY install MM on your Pi. For absolute beginners.:

Fixed for me. Thank you @Mykle1 !!!

You’re welcome, mate.

Mykle1

@axellejamous said in How to MANUALLY install MM on your Pi. For absolute beginners.:

I followed these steps to reinstall the MM but instead of making my own config file I used the one provided. When I run it, the screen is black and I can see in dev tools that the “moment” npm package is having some issues but I can’t find any info anywhere on how to solve it or anyone that has a similar issue.

I see that you have fixed your issue in another topic. Very good! Can I ask, are you saying you had this issue after a manual installation? The symptoms and fix you used are commonly associated with the automatic installer or version update. I’m just curious because I have not heard of this happening after a manual installation.

axellejamous

@Mykle1
I did luckily!
I indeed had the issue after manual installation. Fact is, the automatic installation script would actually get stuck on two of my Pi’s at the node modules installation.
So I had to manually install.

In the issue that helped me find the answer, he did do a manual install as well and had the same problem.
But someone did mention “in the latest version there is a npm install task in the vendor folder as well which gets executed automatically after a successful install, yours wasn’t successful so this was never executed” which means I probably made a mistake in my manual installation, although I have no clue what it could’ve is as I followed the steps thoroughly on 2 different pi’s, getting the same result.

Mykle1

@axellejamous said in How to MANUALLY install MM on your Pi. For absolute beginners.:

I probably made a mistake in my manual installation,

No sir, you made no mistake. You download the software and run npm install in the MagicMirror directory. If, and when that fails, it is no fault of yours.

I’m glad you solved your problem and thanks for the information. It’s good to know that in case anyone else encounters that problem with a manual installation.