node_helper.js does not work.

[sdetweil]

@emrhssla show me output of

ls /home/pi/Desktop/Beauty/MagicMirror/config -laF

[emrhssla]

@sdetweil

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls /home/pi/Desktop/Beauty/MagicMirror/config -laF
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 15 22:18 ./
drwxr-xr-x 17 pi pi 4096 Apr 15 22:16 …/
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 2960 Apr 15 2019 config.js
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 2623 Apr 15 22:11 config.js.sample
-rw-r–r-- 1 pi pi 13 Apr 15 22:29 .gitignore

[sdetweil]

@emrhssla ok, trying to replicate… moved mine to desktop/MagicMirror and it worked ok,
working on installing that repo

[emrhssla]

@sdetweil I don’t see what the problem is.

After upgrading the npm and node to the latest version, I installed the Magic Mirror, and I wonder if that’s the problem.

And I did the npm install python3 and I don’t think this is the cause.

[sdetweil]

@emrhssla will advise once I see it myself

[sdetweil]

@emrhssla which MM are u working in?

/home/pi/Desktop/Beauty (see its config/config.js
or
/home/pi/Desktop/Beauty/MagicMirror one? (see ITS config/config.js

they are different (u have MagicMirror installed INSIDE a MagicMirror folder)
to fix this, in /home/pi/Desktop/Beauty do

mv MagicMirror ..

now you will have

/home/pi/Desktop/Beauty
and
/home/pi/Desktop/MagicMirror

[emrhssla]

@sdetweil
I first ran a magic mirror at /home/pi/Desktop/MagicMirror . But after failing, another one was installed. Running /home/pi/Desktop/Beauty/MagicMirror gave the same result.

In conclusion, there are two magic mirrors: /home/pi/Desktop/MagicMirror and /home/pi/Desktop/Beauty/MagicMirror.

I’ll try it tomorrow, but maybe it doesn’t matter.

[sdetweil]

@emrhssla when the mirror app is running, can u access from another system at http://mirror_ip:mirror_port

[emrhssla]

@sdetweil said in node_helper.js does not work.:

when the mirror app is running, can u access from another system at http://mirror_ip:mirror_port

I solved it!!
A month ago, /fi/MagicMirror was installed.
/pi/Magicmirror puts the code above, so node_helper.js work well.

But I don’t know why /pi/Desktop/Beauty/Magicmirror isn’t working. Is this because of /pi/Magicmirror?

Thanks to you, I solved it. Thank you all the time.

[sdetweil]

@emrhssla said in node_helper.js does not work.:

But I don’t know why /pi/Desktop/Beauty/Magicmirror isn’t working. Is this because of /pi/Magicmirror?

because its a mess with all that macOS level binaries installed…

i had to

rm -rf  ~/Desktop/Beauty/node_modules/electron 
cp ~/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron ~/Desktop/Beauty/node_modules

to get the UI to show on the pi…

i tested before by executing Electron to show some page
in a terminal window ON THE PI
do

~/Desktop/Beauty/node_modules/electron/dist/electron http://cnn.com

this should open electron to show some web page

initially I got a frame, with empty insides