updated installer script available for testing

[swvalenti]

Thanks Sam

[bhepler]

Huh. I just tried it on a fresh Buster install on a RPI 3B+ and PM2 failed to install correctly. It seems to be a permissions issue.

[sdetweil]

@bhepler show me the log please

~/install.log

[bhepler]

It’s not terribly illuminating.

install and setup pm2
pm2 not installed, installing
pm2 install result
get the pm2 platform specific startup command
startup command =
pm2 startup command done
configure the pm2 config file for MagicMirror
start MagicMirror via pm2 now
save MagicMirror pm2 config now
disable screensaver via lxsession

[sdetweil]

@bhepler hang on, I’ll be back home in a few minutes.

Can u do

pm2 startup

[bhepler]

@sdetweil I already went through the installation procedure to get pm2 installed. That required the npm command to install pm2.

After the initial script run, pm2 start MagicMirror returned a “bash: pm2: command not found” error. Once I got pm2 installed, getting the script monitored by pm2 was easy enough. At a guess, it’s a problem with using sudo to install pm2, but I’m afraid I don’t have the exact error message.

[sdetweil]

@bhepler what did u have to do for the pm2 install?

[bhepler]

@sdetweil - I pulled this from the official GitHub page: sudo npm install -g pm2. Once I ran that, I just changed to the ~/MagicMirrors/installers folder and told pm2 to run/maintain it: pm2 start mm.sh

[sdetweil]

@bhepler weird… that is that the script does between the two log entries

	echo pm2 not installed, installing >>$logfile	
	result=$(npm install $up -g pm2)
	echo pm2 install result $result >>$logfile

$up is for the mac

bet it needed sudo…

[sdetweil]

@bhepler

I also added to catch the stderr output to the log too

	echo pm2 not installed, installing >>$logfile	
	result=$(sudo npm install $up -g pm2 2>&1)
	echo pm2 install result $result >>$logfile