Installing on a Pi Zero

Wordonroad

Awesome write up. Super helpful!

qu1que

Thank you very much for this work! The tutorial works perfectly. I just installed it in a rpi zero W. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to install it on this SBC.

cdh1001

Many thanks Andrew - worked well for me (other than first step: connecting to wifi with WPA2 needed some minor tweaks.)

andyc7687

@cdh1001 please specify tweaks as they might help others.

cdh1001

@andyc7687 - I needed to delete the line: key_mgmt=WPA-PSK Based on discussions elsewhere I originally tried renaming Key_mgmt to WPA2 and/or changing group=CCMP, but neither of those were necessary for me; simply deleting the line was sufficient.

andyc7687

@cdh1001 thanks, I will amend my guide over the weekend then.

Smolo

Thanks for the script and the hints so far :-)

Unfortunately I am really frustrated after x installations. :-( Currently everything is installed the autostart works but chrome says “err_connection_refused”!

Does anyone have an idea?

Zero W V1.1 / Raspian Desktop / no sudo

bhepler

@smolo Some suggestions: First, make sure that some form of IP address is present in the address key. Usually 127.0.0.1, but the IP address of your pi will probably work too. Without that value, the web server has a tendency to freak out.

Second, make sure you are specifying the port in your web call. That one has bitten me a couple times.

Third, I would double-check your IP whitelist in the config.js. Possibly open it up to all connections and attempt to view the magic mirror from another computer. See if the problem is local to the PI Zero or if it is on a deeper level.

Smolo

@bhepler
First, as a supplement the installation is absolute standard except for another VNC server.
Chromium starts automaticly with http://localhost:8080

I have already tested the following constellations before my post.
the local ip (192.168.2.84:8080)
127.0.0.1:8080
localhost:8080

“err_connection_refused”

with https browser fault > “err_address_unreachable”

Other things :…

ublock is inactive!
Configuration vom MagicMirror Config:
var config = {
port: 8080,
address: “0.0.0.0”,
ipWhitelist: [],
Test from another pc > “err_connection_refused”

Smolo

I’ve solved the problem and it’s going crazy. After I tried with a portscanner to find out if there is anything running I found out that there is no port 8080 open.

If somebody has problems checking the logs via "pm2 logs MagicMirror --lines 1000

I missed the npm module “moment” under “/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/moment”!!!:astonished_face:

Go to MagicMirror > “npm install” the problem was solved!:slightly_smiling_face:

AnalogCHeep

@andyc7687, thanks a lot! It will be easy for me now, I planned going for building a device like yours
Regards

andyc7687

@analogcheep thanks, let me know if yours works and upvote if it is helpful!

12wsx

today i have to reinstall MM and I have some small problem. MM do not show on local hdmi outpul- I can see the dektop but no MM. Server is working properly because when I open it from laptop i can see MM, when I connect to raspberry pi via vnc i can see to MM. What is going on? what i miss?

sdetweil

@12wsx in terminal, or script u use to start mm do

export DISPLAY=:0

Then npm start

12wsx

thank you for help, i had to reinstal system once more becase there were a lot of errors.
After new instalation pm2 didn’t start properly. after few hours i found why.
In pm2_MagicMirrorPi0.json
line:
“script” : “/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh”,
should be :
“script” : “/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirrorPi0.sh”,

sdetweil

which installer are you using? I don’t see the filename pm2_MagicMirrorPi0.json
or “script” : “/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh”,
in the raspberry.sh script…

sdetweil

ah, ok… i see you followed the manual instructions back a few posts…

i have a modified raspberry.sh I have for testing, that takes user into account

https://www.dropbox.com/s/izj6dz2z9557oga/raspberry.sh?dl=0

to use it like normal

bash -c “$(curl -sL https://www.dropbox.com/s/izj6dz2z9557oga/raspberry.sh?dl=0)”

johnnyt1111

If I try to install magic mirror on the pi zero i get an error that electron 3.0.13 not found for armv6 , by editing the package.json file to specify electron 2.0.18. I can get it to work, although I cannot find a version of electron for armv6 on the electron repo. Any idea why 2.0.18 would work? What would I need to try to compile electron 3 for armv6?

https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v2.0.18

Thanks!

sdetweil

@johnnyt1111 download the electron source and follow the build process

sdetweil

@johnnyt1111 why work. Cause electron 2.0.18 binary exists and 3.0.13 does not. There may be a technical reason, or they skipped it due to low demand.