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      KirAsh4 Moderator @Arod192
      last edited by

      @Arod192, that’s a rather old version of node. When you run the automatic install from MM², it installs a more recent version automatically. You shouldn’t have to do that manually.

      A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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        KirAsh4 Moderator @amanzimdwini
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        @amanzimdwini, I didn’t mention it … yet … because I like to figure out where the problem is, before I tell someone to start from scratch. :)

        A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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          Arod192 @KirAsh4
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          @KirAsh4 Update Node.js and I’m still having the problem

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            Arod192 @KirAsh4
            last edited by Arod192

            @KirAsh4 Okay I just changed the language from en to nl (just to see what’ll happen) and now it works!

            But now everything is in the “nl” language but when I change it back to “en” the screen is black again

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              Arod192 @KirAsh4
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              @KirAsh4 Looks like all languages work but when I change the language to en I get a black screen

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                Arod192 @KirAsh4
                last edited by

                @KirAsh4 Alright I think I fixed it. What I did was I went into the translations folder and I renamed en.js to en-us.js. After that I went into the config and changed en to en-us.

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                  ronny3050 Module Developer
                  last edited by

                  @Arod192 I can confirm this is a bug. Hardcoding ‘en’ in config.js causes black-screen, however, leaving it as ’ ’ or node serveronly runs fine.

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                    overviewcs
                    last edited by

                    noob here reporting same issue and same workaround works for me.

                    Exact Same issue and hardware and OS as poster. From a clean build, updated all before running MM auto installer as I thought I had made a mistake my first time around.

                    “used the automatic installer located here, https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror, and followed every step.
                    I’m using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.
                    I’m running Raspian Jesse 4.4, Node v4.4.3.
                    The MagicMirror is up-to-date”

                    server nodeonly -works
                    npm start -does not

                    changing ‘en’ to ‘’ in config.js works as a workaround. It will now open in electron.

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                    • KirAsh4K Offline
                      KirAsh4 Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Odd bug, as I have two different rpi 3s running just fine with 'en' as the value. This makes me wonder … can any of you paste the contents of your ‘/usr/share/X11/locale/’ folder?

                      $ sudo ls -aF /usr/share/X11/locale/
                      

                      A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                        smithdsl
                        last edited by KirAsh4

                        Hey Everyone,
                        I was have the same issue. Change from ‘en’ to ’ ’ now it works.
                        @KirAsh4 this is my “locale” folder.

                        pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo ls -aF /usr/share/X11/locale/
                        ./            fi_FI.UTF-8/       iso8859-11/  iso8859-6/    ja.SJIS/      locale.dir         sr_CS.UTF-8/   zh_CN.gb18030/    zh_TW.UTF-8/
                        ../           georgian-academy/  iso8859-13/  iso8859-7/    km_KH.UTF-8/  microsoft-cp1251/  tatar-cyr/     zh_CN.gbk/
                        am_ET.UTF-8/  georgian-ps/       iso8859-14/  iso8859-8/    ko/           microsoft-cp1255/  th_TH/         zh_CN.UTF-8/
                        armscii-8/    ibm-cp1133/        iso8859-15/  iso8859-9/    koi8-c/       microsoft-cp1256/  th_TH.UTF-8/   zh_HK.big5/
                        C/            iscii-dev/         iso8859-2/   iso8859-9e/   koi8-r/       mulelao-1/         tscii-0/       zh_HK.big5hkscs/
                        compose.dir   isiri-3342/        iso8859-3/   ja/           koi8-u/       nokhchi-1/         vi_VN.tcvn/    zh_HK.UTF-8/
                        el_GR.UTF-8/  iso8859-1/         iso8859-4/   ja.JIS/       ko_KR.UTF-8/  pt_BR.UTF-8/       vi_VN.viscii/  zh_TW/
                        en_US.UTF-8/  iso8859-10/        iso8859-5/   ja_JP.UTF-8/  locale.alias  ru_RU.UTF-8/       zh_CN/         zh_TW.big5/
                        pi@raspberrypi:~ $
                        

                        Thanks.

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