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    How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero)

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    • MarWindM Offline
      MarWind
      last edited by

      So did anyone get MM2 on a Pi Zero W with Raspian Stretch lite running?
      Or is it better to stay with Jessie?

      ~ride bikes and boards not always on top~

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        Hawking @MarWind
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        @MarWind
        I still didn’t get it to work using Midori in combination with Raspian Stretch Lite.
        On this distribution, I could only get it to work using Epiphany or Chromium. However, their performance is much slower than Midori (which worked fine in Jessie Lite). I can’t tell if this is due to some general changes in Stretch or in the newer versions of Midori.

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          noorm91
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          How did you install Chromium on rpi 0 ?

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          • MarWindM Offline
            MarWind
            last edited by MarWind

            @hawking, thanks for your answer!

            I’ll do some more testing:

            *So my main issue will be now the update of mm2 :-(
            I’m running an working image on the pi zero w with npm 2.14 and node 4.2.1 for month’s now.
            But after updating MM2 last week with git pull && npm install it’s broken :-(
            *

            ~ride bikes and boards not always on top~

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              Hawking @noorm91
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              @noorm91
              I simply did

              sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
              

              and the start is by

              chromium-browser --incognito --kiosk http://localhost:8080
              

              I don’t know if this is a new possibility in Stretch light or is also possible in Jessie Lite (I know that there were some issues in the past). However, as I said, the performance is slow and not stable (I see that the free amount of memory gets low and the system freezes every few hours). Therefore I would prefer to use still Midori, whoch worked fine for me in Jessie. However, using Midori with Stretch I simply get a black screen. I don’t know if this is due to an error in my installation, due to changes from Jessie to Stretch, due to changes in the Midori browser, due to changes in MM (I tried to install an older version, which didn’t help) or yet another reason.

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                Parth Bhandari
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                  Parth Bhandari @Kobie
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                  @Kobie said in How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero):

                  sudo npm install

                  Thanks. I was stuck on the 6th step.

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                    Andrius ok @Parth Bhandari
                    last edited by

                    @Parth-Bhandari check this thread https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/32731

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                      lasharor @Andrius ok
                      last edited by lasharor

                      Couldn’t get this to work at all on the new distro:

                      (chromium-browser:1470): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

                      I’ll check if the image works for me.

                      @Andrius-ok would be nice if you could create and upload an image.

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                        PipoloyJo
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                        Hi everyone, I did not read all 16 pages of this thread but I successfully setup my MM on a Raspberry Pie Zero W, following this answer https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero/8

                        I decided to compile all instructions in a basic bash script since some of these steps can be quite long to execute: https://github.com/PipoloyJo/MMConfig/blob/master/setup-mirror.sh

                        Maybe someone else has already done the same, but I did not found it.

                        Only difference so far is the use of chromium over midori (I got some issues setting it up).

                        Thanks for this thread!

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