MM won't run, blank screen with cursor showing after updating

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 after downloading the code (with git pull) , you need to do

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

also, if u have modules other than the default, you must ALSO do
nom install in each module folder where there is a package.json file present to cleanup the new dependencies

in the future, i hope my updater script (link to topic below) will be available as part of the package to help solve these kinds of problems…

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10859/new-update-upgrade-script-ready-for-testing

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil Thank you for the quick answer! Doing that as we speak.Do you however also have any knowledge about MMM-Voice? Running into an error there as well, that’s what prompted the update. Thanks!

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil i did npm install in the cd magicmirror folder, as well as the other folders with a package.json, but it is still doing and saying the same thing as before, any ideas?

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009

cd MagicMirror/node_modules
ls rrule

does anything show?

if not (expect it to be not there)

cd ..
npm install rrule

also, edit package.json

u should see this

"rrule": "^2.6.2",

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil i installed rrule in just the normal folder, or the blank cd. where should i edit the package file? like in which folders?

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 everything MagicMirror starts in the MagicMirror folder…

in just the normal folder,

what does that mean?
it MUST be in MagicMirror to update the runtime files…

the

cd .. (you were in node_modules, so back up one level, now in MagicMirror)
npm install rrule

was exact, if you followed my instructions

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil i accidentally installed it in the folder previous to MM, but it still worked, but im installing it in the MM folder right now. Thought you meant the first level cd. Should i remove it in the pi folder? If so how because it doesn’t show up

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 sure

cd ~
npm uninstall rrule

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil how do i fix this?

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install rrule
npm WARN acorn-jsx@5.0.1 requires a peer of acorn@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.10.1 requires a peer of stylelint@^9.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

+ rrule@2.6.2
added 2 packages from 2 contributors and audited 2431 packages in 49.239s
found 4 vulnerabilities (2 low, 2 high)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm audit fix
npm WARN acorn-jsx@5.0.1 requires a peer of acorn@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.10.1 requires a peer of stylelint@^9.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

up to date in 51.138s
fixed 0 of 4 vulnerabilities in 2431 scanned packages
  2 package updates for 4 vulns involved breaking changes
  (use `npm audit fix --force` to install breaking changes; or refer to `npm audit` for steps to fix these manually)

Thanks for all your help btw

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 said in MM won't run, blank screen with cursor showing after updating:
it says

run npm audit fix to fix them

many times you cannot fix them all… so, after one try, ignore it

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil Okay! Do you know anything about MM-voice? having issues with that for some reason and i can’t figure out why.

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 yes, what troubles? i have it installed on one of my MagicMirror systems…

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil I have it installed but when i run MM, the little microphone says initializing, then ERROR. I used debug: true, and the file said

1
1
1
1
1
1

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 ok. usually this is the device name of the mic…

run

arecord -l

to get the list of mic devices

make sure that is in the MMM-Voice config, mine is

       config: {
              microphone: '1,0',

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 1: Snowball [Blue Snowball], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

does this mean it is 1 or 1,0?

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009

card 1
device 0

1,0

you can also test the mic with

arecord -D hw:1,0 test.wav

ctrl-break , ctrl-c, or ctrl-z after saying something

then

aplay test.wav

to hear the recorded voice back

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil should i change it in MM’s config file? or MM-voice’s file:MM-voice.js? and if the second, where?

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 never change anything in the module folder, only the config.js for magic mirror

[jmartin1009]

@sdetweil so it should look like this?

{
		        module: 'MMM-voice',
		        position: 'upper_third',
		        config: {
		            microphone: '1,0',
		            keyword: 'Magic Mirror',
			    timeout: 15,
		        }
    		},

[sdetweil]

@jmartin1009 yes

mine looks like

    {
        module: 'MMM-voice',
        position: 'bottom_bar',
        config: {
              microphone: '1,0',
              keyword:        'MAGIC MIRROR',
              timeout:        15,
              debug: true,
              standByMethod: 'hide',
              startHidden: false
        }
    },