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    norm @Jasaronii
    last edited by Jan 1, 2020, 12:07 AM

    @Jasaronii

    I had a similar issue following a reinstall on a Pi 3B, where known good module configurations simply gave a black screen (though the sample config file did initially work but then gave the same black screen after other modules were installed).

    I was also missing ‘node_helper’ folder and ‘index.js’ file as you describe.

    Manually installed the ‘node_helper’ folder and copied in the ‘index.js’ file (from the github page https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/blob/master/modules/node_modules/node_helper/index.js).

    Restarted and now all good. :-)

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      sdetweil @Jasaronii
      last edited by Jan 1, 2020, 12:21 AM

      @Jasaronii and restart the mirror app

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        sdetweil @norm
        last edited by Jan 1, 2020, 12:22 AM

        @norm you can get the file from the local git repo with that checkout comand

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          norm @sdetweil
          last edited by Jan 1, 2020, 1:19 AM

          @sdetweil

          I am not very familiar with the various git commands beyond ‘clone’, but as @jasaronii said above, that git checkout command did nothing, hence manual approach.

          But thanks for the guess - inspired and very helpful.

          N.

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            sdetweil @norm
            last edited by Jan 1, 2020, 1:21 AM

            @norm no. It didn’t give an error. So it did the job I said it would do.

            Then he needs to restart the magicmirror

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              norm @sdetweil
              last edited by Jan 1, 2020, 3:41 PM

              @sdetweil

              Yes and no:
              Yes - it did not give any error message.
              No - it did not install the folder and file.

              To recap:
              I did a new install using the bash auto install script, but for whatever reason the node_helper sub-folder and index.js file were not installed.
              Running the git checkout command similarly did not install the sub-folder and file (as the sub-folder and file were not originally installed, it seems logical to me that the git checkout command would not ‘reinstall’ them).
              Installed the missing sub-folder and file manually.
              Re-started with “pm2 restart mm”.

              I guess the pertinent question is why the original install exercise did not include the node_helper sub-folder and index.js file???

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                sdetweil @norm
                last edited by Jan 1, 2020, 3:53 PM

                @norm I do not know why. The file is included in the GitHub repo. It has always been installed so far

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