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    • J Offline
      jfi1310
      last edited by

      There’s this topic:
      https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/201/sudo-npm-start-does-nothing-on-a-pi-zero/12

      Is it a problem especially with the Pi Zero or just because of the card switching?

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      • J Offline
        jfi1310
        last edited by

        I just tried to install it on the Pi Zero but there was this message:

        0_1468582721726_pizero.jpg

        No Chance?

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        • MichMichM Offline
          MichMich
          last edited by

          Hmmm … it seems the Zero is running on ARMv6. Just like the the Pi 1. Unfortunately, Electron (the browser frame on which MagicMirror relies) does not support ARMv6. You can install MagicMirror² and just use the serveronly method, but you would need to setup a browser in kiosk mode yourself. Which is tricky on the ARMv6 platform.

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            Neokamikaze
            last edited by

            Hi,

            I modify the installation file for Pi0. But the program don’t start. My Post “npm-do-not-start”
            and the file.
            0_1469782479446_MagicMirrorInstallPi0.sh

            I don’t find the solution for the moment.

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              Neokamikaze
              last edited by

              Ok thanks

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                Neokamikaze
                last edited by

                Now is ok for the Pi0. But just for install Kweb.
                i use this commands:

                wget http://steinerdatenbank.de/software/kweb-1.7.3.tar.gz
                tar -xzf kweb-1.7.3.tar.gz
                cd kweb-1.7.3
                ./debinstall
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                • N Offline
                  nigel-daniels
                  last edited by

                  I’ve just tried out running MM2 on a Pi0. It all seems to load up using the server only but when I fire up kweb I just end up with a blank screen. This was a new install so I used the basic config file and added my own data (e.g. weather app key, etc.). I’m new to using MM2 as well so I was not sure if I should be seeing lines like:

                  No helper found for module: nnnn

                  As far as I can tell the calendar and newsfeed have started, but nothing is displayed :(

                  Any recommendations on the diagnostic steps I need to take?

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                  • KirAsh4K Offline
                    KirAsh4 Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Hopefully the community can help you out here as the Pi0 is not supported. Some people may have gotten it to work though …

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

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                    • MitchfarinoM Offline
                      Mitchfarino Module Developer
                      last edited by

                      @evos I’ve only just seen this. Awesome work! I’ll check it out!

                      This means I can free up my Pi3 for something else

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                      • N Offline
                        Neokamikaze
                        last edited by

                        Hi All,

                        MM2 works on Pi0. If you want install MM2 on Pi0 use the @evos process or use my install file.
                        MagicMirrorInstallPi0.sh

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                          nigel-daniels @Neokamikaze
                          last edited by

                          @Neokamikaze thanks, I’d manually got to the same sort of place the script would have got me to… It would have got me there faster ;) Further testing has shown it was my set up of kweb that was at fault not MM2 (the page loaded correctly with firefox). I was testing the page in regular browser mode before using kiosk mode so I can perfect my own config.sh. It turned out I had jScript and cookies off, with these enabled fixed the issue I was seeing.

                          Thanks for all your great work on getting MM2 working on the Pi0!

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                            nigel-daniels @KirAsh4
                            last edited by

                            @KirAsh4 it may be worth getting the support statement updated to the same level as using the Pi1, the Pi0 will run MM2 quite happily using ‘node serveronly’… in my case it turn out you just need to be sure kweb is set up correctly if that is the browser of choice ;)

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                              darkeagl105
                              last edited by

                              I can confirm. It is working with pi 1 in server only mode and kweb. Just some modules don’t show like mmm-sonos. If you connect with anotrr machine with chrome it works normally so it is a browser problem :( and I couldn’t find a solution for that till now

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                                nigel-daniels @darkeagl105
                                last edited by

                                @darkeagl105 I found out with kweb you must enable cookies and Java Script for anything to work. So far I’ve only tested with the default modules, if I find out more about the non-default modules I’ll post here. Kweb is nice and light, I tried firefox but the Pi0 struggles to run it.

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                                  darkeagl105 @nigel-daniels
                                  last edited by

                                  @nigel-daniels I know tried it with all kind of browser and stick with kweb. Will try this weekend with my settings and a pi0 to confirm it as well. I was using a Pi1 B+

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                                    nigel-daniels
                                    last edited by

                                    Has anyone encountered the following issue with kweb. I got everything up and running on the Pi0 and used the platform to develop a new module MMM-FAA-Delay. I then stopped VNC from auto starting, set the boot to console with pi logged in, reinstated the autostart MM2 and kweb script. However this time I also set the screen rotation in config.txt. Everything works fine but it looks like kweb is still using the previous screen ratio even though it’s rotated. i.e. it only fills the top third or so of the screen and the left hand side is ‘off screen’.

                                    Any thoughts?

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                                      nigel-daniels @nigel-daniels
                                      last edited by

                                      @nigel-daniels Follow up I just did a full reinstall, Kweb now seems to get the screen width of the rotated screen but still only uses the upper third portion of the screen :( Any thoughts on how I tell it the screen height.

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                                        nigel-daniels @nigel-daniels
                                        last edited by

                                        @nigel-daniels Ok deeper digging into the kweb code has revealed that the ratio options are hard coded :( I’ve put a request to the Kweb authors for this to be an option. As a short term hack you can install kweb as per @Neokamikaze suggested, then:

                                        git clone https://github.com/ekapujiw2002/kweb
                                        sudo apt-get install webkitgtk-3.0

                                        Then open up kweb.c and change one of the parameter settings to be the ratio you need, for example I set 8 to be 1080x1920. Then make the kweb code and replace /usr/bin/kweb with your custom binary. Now alter the start.sh to use the number you chose for your custom ratio.

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                                          nigel-daniels @Neokamikaze
                                          last edited by

                                          @Neokamikaze hi, what did you do to stop the screen from blanking? Having got the kweb and MM running perfectly I set this up to run without screen blanking an got the mirror in position… but it still blanks after about 10 mins+. The steps I took were:

                                          Turn off the monitors energy saving mode.

                                          I then edited ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart and /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart commented out the screensaver line and added:

                                          @xset s off
                                          @xset -dpms
                                          @xset s noblank

                                          Finally in /etc/kbd/config I set the following to:

                                          BLANK_TIME=0
                                          BLANK_DPMS=off
                                          POWERDOWN_TIME=0

                                          What am I missing here?

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                                            Neokamikaze
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi @nigel-daniels, i don’t touch kweb configuration. I just add on “~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart” file this:

                                            @lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi
                                            @pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi
                                            @xscreensaver -no-splash
                                            

                                            and in “/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart” this:

                                            @lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi
                                            @pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi
                                            @xscreensaver -no-splash
                                            @xset s noblank
                                            @xset s off
                                            @xset -dpms
                                            

                                            After for configure my display i change the configuration in “/boot/config.txt”.

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