Struggling with Pi0

[rgatlin]

I am determined to get MM running on this Pi0, but I have gotten stuck. I have everything installed and when I run ‘npm start’, it looks to me like the server is starting correctly. I go to the Chromium browser and try ‘localhost:8080’, but it doesn’t connect. I also tried 0.0.0.0:8080, but it performs a websearch.

I go into the GUI, then MM file and click index.html and I get a black screen.

I can post code output if necessary, but I am hoping I am just doing something wrong and stupid.

Thanks in advance and Happy New Year!

[andyc7687]

This post is deleted!

[rgatlin]

That would be great. Thanks!

What is the correct way see the display? Is it the browser with the localhost:8080 address?

Thanks again for the help.

[andyc7687]

I believe the issue is that there are elements of nodejs that don’t get installed correctly using npm on the pi zero. Attached is a shell script that should do it from a fresh Raspbian Stretch Install. I put all the files in the home directory (~) and it all distributes itself from there by running RaspberryPi0.sh
Let me know if that helps!

[3_1546385331101_startMagicMirror.sh](Uploading 100%) [2_1546385331101_RaspberryPi0.sh](Uploading 100%) [1_1546385331100_pm2_MagicMirror.json](Uploading 100%) [0_1546385331099_chromium_start.sh](Uploading 100%)

[andyc7687]

I don’t know if those files uploaded…

startMagicMirror.sh: EDIT: I uploaded the wrong code just for this file; changes are a semi colon after line 2 and at the end of line 4; plus the directory has changed from
/home/pi/chromium_start.sh to /home/pi/MagicMirror/PiZero/chromium_start.sh in line 5

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/MagicMirror;
node serveronly &
sleep 30;
sh /home/pi/MagicMirror/PiZero/chromium_start.sh

chromium_start.sh

#!/bin/sh
unclutter &
chromium-browser --start-fullscreen --app http://localhost:8080

pm2_MagicMirror.json

{
  "apps" : [{
    "name"        : "MagicMirror",
    "script"      : "~/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh",
    "watch"       : ["/home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js"]
  }]
}

RaspberryPi0.sh

#!/bin/bash
#Pi Zero Install, largely plagiarised from MagicMirror2's raspberry.sh shell script for Pi2 and Pi3
echo 'Updating Pi'
sudo apt-get update;
echo 'Upgrading Pi'
sudo apt-get upgrade;
sudo apt-get upgrade --fix-missing;

echo 'Downloading node v11.6.0'
curl -o node-v11.6.0-linux-armv6l.tar.gz  https://nodejs.org/dist/v11.6.0/node-v11.6.0-linux-armv6l.tar.gz; #Most up to date recent version
echo 'Extracting node v11.6.0'
tar -xzf node-v11.6.0-linux-armv6l.tar.gz; # extract files
echo 'Extracting node and npm'

cd node-v11.6.0-linux-armv6l/;
sudo cp -R * /usr/local/;
cd ~;
sudo apt install git; sudo apt install unclutter;
echo 'Cloning Magic Mirror'

git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror;
cd MagicMirror;
echo 'Installing Magic Mirror Dependencies'
npx npmc@latest install; npm install acorn@latest; npm install stylelint@latest; npm audit fix;
echo 'Loading default config'

# Use sample config for start MagicMirror
cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js;

#Set the splash screen to be magic mirror
THEME_DIR="/usr/share/plymouth/themes"
sudo mkdir $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror
sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/splash.png $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/splash.png && sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.plymouth $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.plymouth && sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.script $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.script; 
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R MagicMirror; 
mkdir ~/MagicMirror/PiZero;
sudo mv ~/startMagicMirror.sh ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh;
sudo mv ~/pm2_MagicMirror.json ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/pm2_MagicMirror.json;
sudo mv ~/chromium_start.sh ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/chromium_start.sh;
sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh;
sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/pm2_MagicMirror.json;
sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/chromium_start.sh;

# Use pm2 control like a service MagicMirror
sudo npm install -g pm2;
sudo su -c "env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi";
pm2 start /MagicMirror/PiZero/pm2_MagicMirror.json;
pm2 save;
echo 'Magic Mirror should begin shortly'

Takes about an hour depending on how up to date your Raspbian image is… I haven’t silenced/run any of the things in the background so you might get a couple of prompts where you just have to press enter (normally during the apt-get upgrade phase)

[rgatlin]

I will give this a try. Thanks for your help!

[andyc7687]

no worries. if you want to have a bit more control over it, you can execute each line of RaspberryPi0.sh (minus the echo requests) directly in the terminal.

[andyc7687]

@rgatlin Did that work for you?

if now working, can you mark the post as solved please :)