cant get magicmirror to show up on screen

[lysnikolaou]

No, i am not. I am using the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

[yo-less]

Alright. What happens when you open a browser window on your Pi and go to http://localhost:8080?

[lysnikolaou]

I get the “this site cant be reached” error

[yo-less]

What information comes up when you enter “pm2 logs mm” in the terminal window?

[lysnikolaou]

I get a whole bunch of errors, but the output tells me that I either have wrong versions of nodejs or npm or the magicmirror package itself is the one to blame. After that comes the message that electron js/electron.js fails
Here is the log file that need to be submitted according to the log output:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ ‘/usr/bin/nodejs’, ‘/usr/bin/npm’, ‘start’ ]
2 info using npm@3.10.3
3 info using node@v6.5.0
4 verbose run-script [ ‘prestart’, ‘start’, ‘poststart’ ]
5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.0.0~prestart: magicmirror@2.0.0
6 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.0.0~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing
7 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.0.0~start: magicmirror@2.0.0
8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.0.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.0.0~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
10 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.0.0~start: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror
11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.0.0~start: Args: [ ‘-c’, ‘electron js/electron.js’ ]
12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.0.0~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.0.0 start: electron js/electron.js
13 verbose stack spawn ENOENT
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:33:16)
13 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:877:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)
14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.0.0
15 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
16 error Linux 4.4.13-v7+
17 error argv “/usr/bin/nodejs” “/usr/bin/npm” “start”
18 error node v6.5.0
19 error npm v3.10.3
20 error file sh
21 error code ELIFECYCLE
22 error errno ENOENT
23 error syscall spawn
24 error magicmirror@2.0.0 start: electron js/electron.js
24 error spawn ENOENT
25 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.0.0 start script ‘electron js/electron.js’.
25 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
25 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
25 error not with npm itself.
25 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
25 error electron js/electron.js
25 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
25 error npm bugs magicmirror
25 error Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via:
25 error npm owner ls magicmirror
25 error There is likely additional logging output above.
26 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

[yo-less]

Ok, there might be a problem with your electron installation.
Can you go into your MagicMirror folder and type “node serveronly”?

Then, go back to your browser window and type in “localhost:8080”

[lysnikolaou]

Ok it is now working.
I will now try to enable kioskmode.

[yo-less]

This would mean that there seems to be a problem with your electron installation. Since you’ve got a Pi 3, I would try to get that fixed, it’s much easier to have the mirror act the way you want it to if the kiosk mode comes up automatically. I’m running the mirror on a Pi 1 and it took me forever to get everything set up so that the system boots into the mirror, I had to make sure the browser didn’t start too early, and so on. It requires many manual modifications and I’m almost certain that’s not the path you want to take :).

Your mirror installation is not properly set up, I would try to fix that.

I’m not sure if the problem on your system is electron or the mirror installation, as I’m not able to use electron on my Pi I have no experience with using it. But you can try going to your MagicMirror folder and typing in: “npm install electron”, this may set things right.

If it doesn’t, maybe try a reinstall.

[lysnikolaou]

I get an error every time. Both with npm install electron and by reinstalling the whole package. I dont get what the error is but it seems to be with nodejs.

[yo-less]

Hm, like I said, anything I’m suggesting at this stage is purely experimental as I have no experience with setting up the MagicMirror electron environment, but you could try upgrading your node installation.

Please only do that if you are willing to set up your Pi all over again (Reinstalling Raspbian, etc.) should this fail, because it’s hardly ever a good idea to turn your system into a patchwork project.

Someone at stackexchange.com said this helped them in installing Node.js on their Pi 3:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs 
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

Source: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/45319/install-newer-node-version-on-pi-3

If you’re not willing to reinstall everything, should this compromise your Raspbian setup, I would suggest waiting for other forum members’ suggestions on how to proceed.