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

[slametps]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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.

[slametps]

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

@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.

Finally, MM 2.1.3 was installed successfully by executing:

cd /root/MagicMirror/vendor
npm install /root/MagicMirror
cd /root/MagicMirror/fonts
npm install

[axellejamous]

@slametps glad you found it! you basically had the same issue as me except I didn’t have the fonts one. It’s really odd.

[slametps]

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

@slametps glad you found it! you basically had the same issue as me except I didn’t have the fonts one. It’s really odd.

@axellejamous You should try:

$ cd {your_magicmirror_folder}/fonts
$ npm install

it will install required fonts.

[axellejamous]

@slametps If you run it with npm start, does it work for you?
For me that only solved my issue if I run it with node serveronly.
Now there’s 0 errors so I have no clue why my screen still shows up black with npm start.

[slametps]

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

@slametps If you run it with npm start, does it work for you?
For me that only solved my issue if I run it with node serveronly.
Now there’s 0 errors so I have no clue why my screen still shows up black with npm start.

Yap, it works like a charm now (also after I downgraded electron to 1.6.10 (1.7.9 consumes excessive CPU).
Firstly, I got the same issue. After I did what I mentioned earlier, it is OK now.