updated installer script available for testing

[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

[jorgnyg]

@sdetweil sure thing. Guess this is the most relevant error

26380 verbose stack Error: electron-chromedriver@1.8.0 install: `node ./download-chromedriver.js`
26380 verbose stack Exit status 1
26380 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
26380 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:198:13)
26380 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
26380 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
26380 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
26380 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
26381 verbose pkgid electron-chromedriver@1.8.0
26382 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
26383 verbose Linux 4.19.75+
26384 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
26385 verbose node v10.18.1
26386 verbose npm  v6.13.4
26387 error code ELIFECYCLE
26388 error errno 1
26389 error electron-chromedriver@1.8.0 install: `node ./download-chromedriver.js`
26389 error Exit status 1
26390 error Failed at the electron-chromedriver@1.8.0 install script.
26390 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
26391 verbose exit [ 1, true ]