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

axellejamous · Oct 19, 2017, 6:45 PM

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 · Oct 19, 2017, 7:46 PM

@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 · Oct 19, 2017, 9:04 PM

@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 · Oct 19, 2017, 9:43 PM

@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 · Oct 20, 2017, 11:01 AM

@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.

slametps · Oct 20, 2017, 2:08 AM

@axellejamous I still got no luck making 2.1.3 works. the log said MM run without error. Unfortunately, got a black screen using default config.js (copy from config.js.sample). If I remove config.js, the MM display to create a config. Still no clue how to solve this.

Mykle1 · Oct 20, 2017, 2:16 AM

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

If I remove config.js, the MM display to create a config. Still no clue how to solve this.

You did a manual install and ran npm install in the MagicMirror directory? He solved his problem by running npm install in the vendor directory. I don’t know if you have the same issue.

But it seems to me if MM is reporting “Create a config” that MM is launching correctly. You could try getting a fresh copy of the config.js.sample (in case something is wrong with the one you have) and trying again.

Good luck

slametps · Oct 20, 2017, 2:19 AM

@Mykle1 said in How to MANUALLY install MM on your Pi. For absolute beginners.:

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

If I remove config.js, the MM display to create a config. Still no clue how to solve this.

You did a manual install and ran npm install in the MagicMirror directory? He solved his problem by running npm install in the vendor directory. I don’t know if you have the same issue.

But it seems to me if MM is reporting “Create a config” that MM is launching correctly. You could try getting a fresh copy of the config.js.sample (in case something is wrong with the one you have) and trying again.

Good luck

Yap, I just copy config.js from config.js.sample, and got a black screen.
I will give a try, running npm install in vendor folder.

Mykle1 · Oct 20, 2017, 2:25 AM

@slametps

You didn’t answer my question.
You didn’t try my suggestion.
You did the one thing that I said I didn’t know was your issue.

Shrug

slametps · Oct 20, 2017, 7:02 AM

@Mykle1 said in How to MANUALLY install MM on your Pi. For absolute beginners.:

@slametps

You didn’t answer my question.
You didn’t try my suggestion.
You did the one thing that I said I didn’t know was your issue.

Shrug

Yap, I install MM manually refers to documentation you wrote (and backed up current running MM 2.1.0).
config. js I mentioned earlier, is a fresh copy from config.js.sample in config folder.
I did npm-install in MM folder, but not in vendor yet. I’ll try later when I have access to my MM.