Blank black screen | Noob

axellejamous

Hello!

I was wondering if any of you could help me.
I’m basically having the exact same issue as this topic, except the “nl to en” fix isn’t working for me. I’m running the MM with it’s basic config file.
Runs fine on serveronly, but get a black screen on npm start.

I’ve updated everything from my pi to my os to my node modules, but nothing seems to be working. There also don’t seem to be any errors.

bhepler

@axellejamous I want to verify a couple of things, just to be sure.

You’re running npm start on the Pi itself, not via an SSH connection from another computer.
Your monitor is hooked up to the Pi via the HDMI port.

axellejamous

@bhepler I was! But I manages to fix the issue.
When checking npm versions I saw that electron was ver 1.8.1
I ended up rolling back to 1.7.9 and it works perfectly!
Have no idea why 1.8.1 results in a black screen though.

abetterway

@axellejamous I just ran into this black screen issue too.

I figured out that the local electron display will only work if the config.js contains:

  address: "localhost"

I was running with the following and getting a black screen

  address: "::"

Instead of using the built in display I am going to launch chromium myself in --kiosk mode. I need the MM to listen on all interfaces so I can see and debug from a separate machine.