cant get magicmirror to show up on screen

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.

lysnikolaou

I had done just that, even before your post. And when i run nodejs -v it outputs v6… which is just fine. I don’t know, maybe I will reinstall raspbian and start it all over again

yo-less

That might be the best way of going about it if you are only planning on using the Pi for the Magic Mirror.
Did you start out with a brand new Pi or did you install some other software on it as well?

lysnikolaou

No, only this, but I first followed wrong instructions and installed unnecessary software that might have somehow affected the other installations.

yo-less

Then do it again, since you’re only just starting, you will only lose an hour or so and hopefully end up with a working system. This way you can ensure you have a working mirror that is fun to configure. At this stage you’re having problems with it starting up, who knows what other problems might be lurking in the darker corners of your Raspbian installation. Just make sure you grab the latest Raspbian image when reinstalling.

Let us know whether it worked the second time round.

lysnikolaou

I will certainly let you know. Do you think that it would be better to run the automatic installation command or manually install nodejs, clone the rep and the install npm?

strawberry 3.141

i did it like this on several pi’s now and never had issues https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/236/complete-setup-tutorial

yo-less

@lysnikolaou Unfortunately, I have no experience with the automatic installation because it isn’t supported for my hardware setup. But it seems to be the best way of going about it and the instructions in the link @strawberry-3-141 has posted is the way to go, @KirAsh4 has put a lot of energy into it and if you follow it closely, I’d be surprised if you still ran into trouble.