updated installer script available for testing

[NathTheDude]

Hey sam (@sdetweil ),

Thanks for this, made my life a lot easier.

So, I just did a new build with Buster on a RPI Zero W. All looked good and I have configured mm2 to start on reboot of the Pi. I am start/stop/restart and check the status of mm2 and is looks to be working, the mm2 logs are also good with no error logs.

The problem I am facing is that the magicMirror page via chromium seems to try and load (white screen which changes to a pure black screen) however seems to fail/crash and go back to the Raspbian desktop.

This happens when I reboot the pi and also when I manually try to start/restart the mm2 service.

Anything you think I am missing?

Thanks

[sdetweil]

@NathTheDude if u start the chromium browser from the desktop does it work?

[sdetweil]

U may need to increase the swap space. Pi 0 has very little memory.

https://wpitchoune.net/tricks/raspberry_pi3_increase_swap_size.html

[NathTheDude]

Thanks @sdetweil , after a couple of reboots this is now working as expected. Not sure what the issue was, I will have to keep an eye on it. Thanks for the link on swap space, I will also look in that direction if I have any more of the same issues.

[sdetweil]

@NathTheDude ok… let me know if there are any other issues…

[sdetweil]

@sdetweil this installer script is now the script in 2.10…

I will close/lock this topic in a couple days

[jorgnyg]

Should I install electron with --arch=armv7l ?

[jorgnyg]

@jorgnyg Yea guess so. Installation fails on rpi zero. So I deleted the electron folder from node_modules, and ran npm install --arch=armv7l electron@3.0.13

[sdetweil]

@jorgnyg doesn’t fail on my pi 0.

Can u send me the install.log

[sdetweil]

@sdetweil note that we made electron optional. There is no armv6l at node 10
So we will run in split mode use chromium