Black screen instead of desktop after installing PIR sensor

09succotash · Dec 23, 2019, 4:37 PM

@sdetweil This is what mine looks like. The white bar at the top of the screen is vnc viewer, not the screen. I’m using vnc viewer on my laptop.

sdetweil · Dec 23, 2019, 4:37 PM

@09succotash ok, select Desktops or reconfigure

09succotash · Dec 23, 2019, 4:40 PM

@sdetweil Clicked reconfigure, nothing shows up. Clicked desktop, just shows a list of desktops. Shows 4 desktops. I’ve been through them all, shows the same black screen.

sdetweil · Dec 23, 2019, 4:50 PM

@09succotash in the terminal window, if u run sudo raspi-config
and look at boot options…

beyond that there are 1 few (hundred) posts about problems like this if u search google

09succotash · Dec 23, 2019, 4:52 PM

@sdetweil Boot options, and then what?

sdetweil · Dec 23, 2019, 4:54 PM

@09succotash I might try to change desktop with login

09succotash · Dec 23, 2019, 4:55 PM

@sdetweil Been there, done that, didn’t work. I’ve been searching Google for this issue, and came up short. Didn’t find much results, but I will try some more searching,

diccon · Dec 30, 2019, 2:17 AM

I had a similar problem when I used MMM-PIR-Sensor module. Everything had been working for about 6 months then I updated something and it stoped working. I re-installed everything several times and through a process of elimination and google searches it acmes down to this particular module.

I have now got it a working again by finding the latest update from a branched version of MMM-PIR-Sensor module.

I never did find the cause.

Lightspeed · Dec 30, 2019, 5:59 AM

I had a simmilar Problem an had to use my old Backup after investigating hours. It seems that there are Problems between versions of node and electron. Do you have a white Window shortly and then the black desktop screen?