Up to date install process.

stampeder

I’m new here and I"m looking for an up to date installation procedure to put magic mirror 2 on my raspberry pi zero w. I’ve looked at several on the internet and most have really old code. They are still using jesse in most cases. Also, when following weiber and rootsudo they are saying to run “sudo wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb” and the node_latest_armhf.deb comes back with a 502 Bad Gateway error. I’ve verified this several times.
So, I really like magic mirror and want to get my raspi zero w going with it but I’m kind of stuck with old install information. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Glenn.

sdetweil

@stampeder use the install script from here

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

stampeder

Thanks for replying so quickly sdetweil. Where does this leave me in the installation process when it is done?

sdetweil

@stampeder with a running MM, with pm2 to start on boot (if u select that during the install process)
and screen saver turned off (if u select it)…

i suggest u start with raspian buster, not jessie (too old)

my repo is referenced from the MM doc site

u will need to remove any existing MM folder before starting

if u choose not to do the optional things, there are scripts on the same site to enable them later

stampeder

I currently have stretch lite loaded on my SD card. The install script worked just fine and the pm2 start MagicMirror shows MagicMirror status online. However, there doesn’t seem to be a browser page come up. I still seem to be in CLI mode. Should I start it all over from scratch with Buster?

sdetweil

@stampeder pi 0w should have the chromium browser started to show the page…

u have lite installed, which probably doesn’t have chromium… so I would install that and then restart MM using pm2

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

sdetweil

@stampeder the system is running the graphical desktop, right? it must

stampeder

Thanks Sam.
I’m just finishing installing chromium. Let me see if it works. My version of Stretch is NOT the desktop version. I have a version of Buster however that is the desktop version. If this still fails after the chromium install, I’ll redo it with the Buster sdcard.
Will your install script also work with Midori browser?
Glenn.

sdetweil

@stampeder it MUST be desktop version… else u will run in serveronly mode and can access from another system

electron or chrome needs the graphical desktop environment to work

sdetweil

@stampeder the install script is bash… running is a different problem…

u will have to change the run-start.sh script to launch that browser

stampeder

Sam. It finished and when I restarted PM2 the browser did not come up.
I’ll remove the stretch sd card and start over with the Buster desktop sd card. Then it should work.
This will take a while.
Thanks for all your help.
Glenn.

stampeder

Sam. It took quite a while to get my usb stick programmed, updated and configured but my MagicMirror is up and running thanks to you. Excellent work on the script!!
Now it is off to customize it. What fun…

sdetweil

@stampeder awesome! Have fun, come on back if you need more info

stampeder

@sdetweil
Thanks for all your help.
One quick question. I have security cameras that stream ffmpeg. Is there module that will display just one of these camera’s output?
Cheers.
Glenn.

sdetweil

@stampeder MMM-RTSPStream, MMM-iFrame

see https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-party-modules

stampeder

PURRRFECT!! Exactly what I am looking for. MagicMirror is just the wall display I have been searching for. It has come a long way from the original I looked at back in the day.
Thanks again.
Glenn.

stampeder

Ahhh…got a little problem:
I’m configuring MMM-ip. I cloned the repository into modules without issue.
I put this into my config.js:

{
                        module: "MMM-ip",
                        position: "top_right",
                        config: {
                                fontsize: "5",
                                dimmed: "true",
                                showFamily: "IPv4",
                                showType: "both",
                                voice: "false",
                                startHidden: "false"
                        }
                },

It comes up, but it displays the title Network Interfaces
ETH0
IPv4: 10.10.10…(the correct interface)
MAC: b8:27…(and the rest)
in the middle of the screen.

It doesn’t seem to be controllable nor does it display as advertised.
Hope you can help me out.
Thanks.
Glenn.
Still haveing fun with it…

sdetweil

@stampeder sorry, no experience with that module… I’d open a new topic others may be able to help

stampeder

Sam:
Thanks. I’ll start a new topic on it.
Now, I use DS18B20 temperature probes a lot. I found a module MMM-DS18B20 for them and it seems people were having issues getting it to work.
I found the problems with it and it now works correctly. I put the fix in the issues.
Is there somewhere else I can alert people to the fact that it is now working as advertised (with the fix)?
Thanks.
Glenn.

sdetweil

@stampeder did u make a pull request for the module author?