Run MM on Ubuntu 16 VM

[Mykle1]

@justjim1220 said in Run MM on Ubuntu 16 VM:

Got any ideas?

Why are you using sudo npm start? You shouldn’t use sudo to install MM or run MM. That can lead to problems. Also, it shouldn’t matter but for the sake of conformity I always install MM in the home directory

[justjim1220]

@mykle1

so I have everything now installed in the root but still getting nowhere with getting the mirror to start up and run…:worried_face:

[justjim1220]

@mykle1

Still getting this…

doesn’t matter if i’m in Ubuntu 16.04 OR 18.04
and it doesn’t matter if I’m in home directory OR the root directory…

is there a different way to run MM other than ‘npm start’?

[AxLed]

@justjim1220
did you try to start the “Server only” mode an open a browser on Ubuntu with IP of your MM?
To start Server only do node serveronly in your MagicMirror directory.

Maybe this helps to find the problem.

AxLED

[A Former User]

@justjim1220
try this.

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

[justjim1220]

@axled

Thanks, that worked!!!
:winking_face: :winking_face: :smiling_face: :smiling_face: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

[reitrac]

Hello everyone,

3months later, I hope it’s not too late :)

@AxLed i’m trying to use “node serveronly” but have this error :
WARNING! Could not validate config file. Please correct syntax errors. Starting with default configuration.

I followed @Mykle1 tutorial to create default config.js but this not works.

Any idea ? (My internet connection works)

Thanks.

[A Former User]

@reitrac
Your config.js might have some misspell or wrong syntax.

[reitrac]

My config.js is by default :D
I just changed “en” by “fr”.

I’ll try to find config.js on Git and come back to you.

Thanks.

EDIT :

I downloaded the latest config.js from : https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/blob/master/config/config.js.sample
And not works :'(

[Mykle1]

@reitrac

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 *
 * For more information how you can configurate this file
 * See https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#configuration
 *
 */

var config = {
	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 24,
	units: "metric",

	modules: [
		{
			module: "alert",
		},
		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar"
		},
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left"
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "US Holidays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check-o ",
						url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third"
		},
		{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "New York",
				locationID: "",  //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/; unzip the gz file and find your city
				appid: "YOUR_OPENWEATHER_API_KEY"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				location: "New York",
				locationID: "5128581",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "YOUR_OPENWEATHER_API_KEY"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
	]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

[A Former User]

@reitrac
I can bet you have missed comma after language:"fr". 95% of syntax error was that thing in my case. :D

[reitrac]

@Mykle1 @Sean Didn’t works with the default config … I don’t know why.

[justjim1220]

@reitrac

Did you change the name of the config file from ‘config.js.sample’ to ‘config.js’ ?

[reitrac]

@justjim1220 Yeah of course :)
I followed @Mykle1 tutorial.

EDIT :

If can help, I’m using VirtualBox on MAC with UBUNTU 16.04 LTS

[reitrac]

Hey,

i tried tu remove and reinstall MM.
Here is the new error :

VirtualBox:~/MagicMirror$ node serveronly/
module.js:328
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'express'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:326:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:277:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/monagraphic/MagicMirror/js/server.js:8:15)
    at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:354:17)

Some one can help me ?

EDIT :

It works, i launch a second time “npm install”.