I Need your Help

[A Former User]

@Nawid
It seems you’d missed something in installation steps.

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

Or just begin from first again.

[Mykle1]

@Sean

If MM is reporting “Create a config” then isn’t his installation ok?

[A Former User]

@Mykle1
I don’t know exactly. Frankly said, I recommend install again from begining.

[Nawid]

i do it often from begining, but every time the same problem with the config file. I start from the begining again.

1. Install Rasbian
2. rasbian configuration for the magicmirror
3. install MagicMirror
4. copy and past the config file and rename it.
5. Test number 100.000.000.000 -.-

if you have a better step than tell it me

[A Former User]

@Nawid
There are too many points to guess which is the exact reason of your problem.

1. Make all the things clearly. All of these might not be related to your real problem, but it might be help or not. Since we cannot inspect your environment, so more detailed information would be better to guess.

• which rpi do you have? rpi 3 model B ?
• which OS do you use? Jessie? Jessie Lite? Stretch? Armbian? or any other things?
• Did you change your account from pi(or any default account) to anything else? In that case, did you give proper permission for that account?
• how do you install MagicMirror? manually? or Automatic installer? Have you got any suspicious messages during installation? MM needs so many dependencies, all of the dependencies should be installed properly.
• how do you connect to your machine for running MM? via SSH? or direct connect to RPI with keyboard and mouse?
• how do you execute your MM? autostart with pm2 or other way to use npm?
• Have you tried npm run config:check? what is the result?

2. Your first article about error logs seems not to be related config.js missed.
   When config.js is missed, the error logs will be like these something;

> magicmirror@2.1.3 start /Users/eouia/Documents/nodeJS/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh "dev"

Starting MagicMirror: v2.1.3
Loading config ...
WARNING! Could not find config file. Please create one. Starting with default configuration.
Loading module helpers ...
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: helloworld.

But your logs were showing that you had something wrong with your installation. So, why do you think this is config missing?

[Nawid]

i have

• rpi 3 model b
• OS Stretch
• i change nothing with the account
• I install magicmirror Automatic installer, yes he shows a suspicious messages today if i install magicmirror automatic. He say “Unable to install dependencies” at the end after the error wich i wirte yetesday.
• conncect it the machine direct to RPI with Keyboard an mouse

I think it i had the problem because he displays the error message " Unable to install dependencies".

electron@1.7.9 postinstall ‘node install.js’ he can’t intall this

ERROR: read ECONNRESET
at exports._errnoException (util.js:1020:11)
at TLSWrap.onread (net.js:568:26)

What can i do now?

[A Former User]

@Nawid
Ok. We can step forward somehow.
I’m not using Stretch so i cannot assure, but as i know, there is some problem for auto installation with Stretch. You can get detailed info by searching for it.
I suggest you to install Mm and dependencies manually instead of auto installer.

[Nawid]

Which OS is the Best for the MagicMirror²?

[Mykle1]

@Nawid said in I Need your Help:

Which OS is the Best for the MagicMirror²?

On a Pi? Raspbian Jessie, without a doubt in my mind.

On a PC? I’ve only used Windows 7 but it’s rock solid.

On a Compaq Presario CQ57? Ditch Windows and run it as a Linux machine. Install uBuntu and MM for best performance.

On a Core Duo MacBook? uBuntu v14.04 and MM run amazingly well.

On a Core 2 Duo iMac? Dual boot so you don’t lose a decent Mac OS. Install uBuntu along side the MacOS and MM will be very happy.

[A Former User]

@Mykle1
I’m using pure OSX for development. Except some specific features like GPIO, MM works well on OSX.