How to apply changes on the MM other than reboot? ftp?

[Mykle1]

@noorm91

There’s VNC that’s standard with Pi3 and Jessie. I don’t know about the Pi1’s abilities. “Putty” seems to be a favorite of many although I’ve never used it. At least with VNC, you can send and receive files to the Pi, edit them locally, and send them back, but I would only do that for major changes or at least large changes. If I were just adding a module for example, I would just do it remotely. It’s a personal preference.

Assuming you’re talking about applying changes to the MM software, you can simply quit MM, make your changes and relaunch, no?

[noorm91]

@Mykle1
I followed this guide https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero/8?page=1 everything went pretty well mostly…but I still haven’t figured out how to quit and relaunch the MM.

[Mykle1]

@noorm91

Ok, this is how I do it.
While viewing the Pi via VNC, I press the Alt key
This drops a menu bar down at the top of MM.
You may not see your mouse/cursor until you move it all the way up into the menu bar.
The far left menu has Quit in it.

Relaunch the way you normally would launch MM

[noorm91]

@Mykle1
Ok thank you! I get electron.js failed at MM start script when using npm start.
I will try reinstalling the MM instead tomorrow!

[Mykle1]

@noorm91 said in How to apply changes on the MM other than reboot? ftp?:

I get electron.js failed at MM start script when using npm start.

Wait, are you using VNC, because you CAN use npm start using that. Are you running server only?

[noorm91]

@Mykle1
Yes Rpi zero and 1 only supports server only at this moment. What I’ve figured out so far and no I’m using Tera Term (almost like PuTTY) accessing it with SSH. But I connected my mouse and keyboard to find the mouse cursor, so I saw the X button on the Midori browser and closed it.

[Mykle1]

@noorm91

Ok, there is a command specific to starting server only I think. Lemme see if I can find it for you before you reinstall anything.

EDIT

I think this is what you need
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2321/magicmirror-fails-to-start-after-fresh-install

[noorm91]

@Mykle1
Thanks again for trying, I will look it up tomorrow and try before reinstall. I think it is best to get a clean installation after everything I’ve tested now, start.sh might even be wrong at this moment. All I get when I reboot is localhost:8080 error something…

This is what I got after those commands though, npm start gives me electron error, I read somewhere before about rpi zero/1 can´t handle electron.js somehow I think.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ DISPLAY=:0 nohup npm start &
[1] 890
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ nohup: ignoring input and appending output to ‘nohup.out’
^C
[1]+ Exit 1 DISPLAY=:0 nohup npm start
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ ^C
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

magicmirror@2.1.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
electron js/electron.js

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.34+
npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “start”
npm ERR! node v4.2.1
npm ERR! npm v2.14.7
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.0 start: electron js/electron.js
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.0 start script ‘electron js/electron.js’.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! electron js/electron.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls magicmirror
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log

[Mykle1]

@noorm91 said in How to apply changes on the MM other than reboot? ftp?:

Thanks again for trying, I will look it up tomorrow and try before reinstall.

Ok, keep me posted. I’ve never used anything other than a Pi 3 B or better, nor have I ever ran MM as node server only, but I am interested in knowing how you get it running.