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Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?

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    sdetweil @lpt2007
    last edited by sdetweil Jan 14, 2020, 2:19 PM Jan 14, 2020, 2:18 PM

    @lpt2007 if u want to run it on the same system, yes, it is a graphical application,
    if you want to access the server from a remote system (only) , then no… it can run in serveronly mode

    for pi 0, the local embedded browser (electron) is no longer available for the version of node now being provided, so we drop back to serveronly mode and use chromium-browser to run the mirror locally, but that requires graphical mode

    as most users don’t know all this, i updated the run-start.sh script to do all this for you.
    if no X11, (system in console mode) then run in serveronly

    Sam

    How to add modules

    learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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      lpt2007
      last edited by Jan 14, 2020, 2:24 PM

      I try to run it in docker container with gui on my pi . But when I start it, there is no output to HDMI. MM starts in server mode no matter what I do.

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        sdetweil @lpt2007
        last edited by sdetweil Jan 14, 2020, 2:39 PM Jan 14, 2020, 2:38 PM

        @lpt2007 said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

        I try to run it in docker container with gui on my pi

        which docker container?

        the linked one starts MM in serveronly inside the container and then u use a browser on the outside of the container to access to exposed port.

        there is a second docker solution that uses the fact that one can SEE and ACCESS the docker runtime and launches electron to push content out to the X11 gui… this is really cheating…
        but there was a fix created

        replace the run-start.sh with this one from the next release
        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/develop/run-start.sh

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

        L 1 Reply Last reply Jan 15, 2020, 11:43 AM Reply Quote 0
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          lpt2007 @sdetweil
          last edited by Jan 15, 2020, 11:43 AM

          @sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

          replace the run-start.sh with this one from the next release
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/develop/run-start.sh

          I changed run-start.sh file and now I get this error:

          > magicmirror@2.10.1 start /root/MagicMirror
          > ./run-start.sh
          /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
          npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
          npm ERR! syscall spawn
          npm ERR! file sh
          npm ERR! errno ENOENT
          npm ERR! magicmirror@2.10.1 start: `./run-start.sh`
          npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
          npm ERR! 
          npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
          npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
          npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
          npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-01-15T11_40_27_011Z-debug.log
          
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            sdetweil @lpt2007
            last edited by Jan 15, 2020, 3:32 PM

            @lpt2007 graphical stuff not loaded in container.

            Sam

            How to add modules

            learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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              sdetweil
              last edited by sdetweil Jan 15, 2020, 3:54 PM Jan 15, 2020, 3:53 PM

              I would look at this docker setup
              https://gitlab.com/khassel/magicmirror

              Otherwise run container in serveronly mode and use chrome on the pi to view the app.

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                lpt2007 @sdetweil
                last edited by Jan 16, 2020, 7:03 PM

                @sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

                @lpt2007 graphical stuff not loaded in container.

                I added needed graphical libraries, now I get this error:

                /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3: no version information available (required by /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron)
                /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3: no version information available (required by /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron)
                npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
                npm ERR! errno 1
                npm ERR! magicmirror@2.10.1 start: `./run-start.sh`
                npm ERR! Exit status 1
                npm ERR!
                npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
                npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
                
                npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
                npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-01-16T19_00_47_796Z-debug.log
                
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                  sdetweil @lpt2007
                  last edited by Jan 16, 2020, 8:43 PM

                  @lpt2007 need more libraries.

                  I’d run serveronly in the container, and use chromium from outside the container

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                    lpt2007 @sdetweil
                    last edited by Jan 16, 2020, 10:58 PM

                    @sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

                    @lpt2007 need more libraries.

                    I’d run serveronly in the container, and use chromium from outside the container

                    Thanks, but this is not an option, because I try to use mm as addon for Home Assistant and I use hassos image. The mm will be one of the systems I will use on rpi and I will call them trough ha when I need them.

                    Any idea what error I posted means?

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                      sdetweil @lpt2007
                      last edited by Jan 16, 2020, 11:03 PM

                      @lpt2007 said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

                      Any idea what error I posted means?

                      yes, u need more libraries loaded into the container…

                      /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3

                      Sam

                      How to add modules

                      learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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