Electron Browser outdated?

rudibarani

Dear all,
I am using this page at night including a module (MMM-SmartWebDisplay from @AgP42) which used to show a livestream from the ISS until the ISS camera payload unfortunately reached its end of live a few weeks ago:
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Now I noticed a message in the bottom corner of the livestream, claiming that the browser is outdated.

The link redirects to this website: https://support.video.ibm.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000403129-Supported-Browsers-for-IBM-Watson-Media

I am using MagicMirror² v2.8.0, Node v11.6.0 and npm 6.9.0.
How do I update the electron browser accordingly?

Thanks for your support!

sdetweil

@rudibarani
MagicMirror 2.8.0 is using Electron 3.0.13, and the latest version is 6.09 (4, 5 and 6 were all released since march of this year)…

I don’t know Mitch’s plans for version updates… you might open an issue in the MagicMirror github repo.

lavolp3

Would be interesting to see what happens if electron 6 gets installed.
Anybody here ready to give it a try and crash his mirror? :-D

Mykle1

@rudibarani

The same happens on my MMM-ISS-Live module. However, in my case, I simply “X” out the message and the module continues to work properly. Yes, you need to be able to click.

Odd, I just quit MM and relaunched and the message did NOT appear this time. Hmmm.

sdetweil

I downloaded a fresh MagicMirror copy, and changed the electron version to “latest”, in package.json
And then did npm install
Default config runs fine

Will try some other modules

Pir, hotword, assistantmk2.

Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, Intel,  electron v6.0.10, ok
   node 8.10.0
   npm 6.11.3

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, odroid, electron v6.0.10, ok 
   node 8.10.0 
   npm 6.10.2
   MMM-PIR-Sensor fails, access denied, exportGPIO, /sys/class/gpio/export
   MMM-Hotword, V2, ok. 
   MMM_AssistantMk2, ok

Raspian stretch 9.4, pi V3,  electron v6.0.10, ok
   node 10.6.0
   npm, 6.11.3

sdetweil

so far, testing looks good… not on pi yet tho

sdetweil

@sdetweil pi 3 looks good.

rudibarani

Thanks @sdetweil - changing the electron to latest works fine for me on a Mac Mini. I tested all my modules and did not find glitch so far.
@MichMich: Is there a special reading why you stick to version 3.0.13?

sdetweil

@rudibarani cool. can u post the node and npm versions? thanks

rudibarani

@sdetweil: I only updated electron without changing npm and node - so I am still using Node v11.6.0 and npm 6.9.0 on my Mac Mini (24/7 since 2009 :slightly_smiling_face:)

sdetweil

@rudibarani just wanting to know what the levels were. Thank you

Stoffbeuteluwe

@rudibarani how can I update electron?

Stoffbeuteluwe

@rudibarani I have a Mac mini

lavolp3

@Stoffbeuteluwe go into the MagicMirror home folder and execute

npm install electron@latest

lavolp3

Testing now electron@6.0.10 on a
Raspberry Pi 4 with
npm@6.10.2 and
node@10.15.2

Will report back as soon as I have something

Stoffbeuteluwe

@lavolp3 thanks

Stoffbeuteluwe

@lavolp3 works fine on Mac

Stoffbeuteluwe

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sdetweil

I have submitted change to upgrade to version 6.0.12 on next update

Vauxdvihl

@lavolp3 said in Electron Browser outdated?:

npm install electron@latest

Hi all,
i have updated the electron like above written (because i had the same issue)
After update nothing works

Error code

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start dev

> magicmirror@2.9.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh "dev"

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:14
    throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again')
    ^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at getElectronPath (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:14:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:18:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/cli.js:3:16)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.9.0 start: `sh run-start.sh "dev"`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.9.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-11-22T22_16_40_595Z-debug.log

Can please somebody help me
Thanks a lot
Regards