Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MM on Pi Zero fails after being off for a few days
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weird… seems like chrome is having trouble.
if you type
chromium-browser --app=https://cnn.com
does it come up?
in 2.10, i created a similar script for
pi0w(armv6l) as electron doesn’t exist anymoretry this script
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/run-start.sh >~/MagicMirror/run-start.sh chmod +x ~/MagicMirror/run-start.sh
then
cd ~/MagicMirror ./run-start.sh
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@sdetweil said in MM on Pi Zero fails after being off for a few days:
./run-start.sh
When I run
chromium-browser --app=https://cnn.com
I get command not found, so I tried
chromium --app=https://cnn.com
and I get Illegal Instruction.
i tried your script, and I get the text on screen about no helper found etc, then it gets stuck when trying to fetch the calendar data. I can access it from another computer but the pi is still blank on screen
Edit: It does seem to go through the calendar step but just very slowly, still progressing to each successive calendar now. I’ll leave it running and see if it eventually successfully starts.
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@kellogg76 no… its stuck with the chromium-browser not loading…
I think u need to reinstall the chromium browser…
this means there was an update , or there is an sd card problem…
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@sdetweil looks like the quickest fix is to re-install again. It’s a pain as I probably have to do this about once or twice a year. It can be working great then either the power will unexpectedly go out or I’ll shut it down for some reason and then it takes a full wipe and re-install to get it working again.
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@kellogg76 use my install script
see here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scriptsrename existing MM folder out of the way
run the install script… it does everything…(well, not install chromium browser)
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@kellogg76 i have a system that is like that… power messes up everything…
I have moved to boot from sd card, RUN from ssd…
https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-4-usb-boot-config-guide-for-ssd-flash-drives/
see starting here
USB Boot Instructions -
@sdetweil I renamed the old MM directory and ran your script
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/raspberry.sh)"
Everything went successfully, I can see the display from other computers but the pi just sits at a terminal prompt, is there something I need to do to start things off?
$ pm2 list ┌────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐ │ id │ name │ version │ mode │ pid │ uptime │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │ ├────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ 1 │ MagicMirror │ 2.10.1 │ fork │ 568 │ 2m │ 1 │ online │ 0% │ 2.5mb │ pi │ enabled │ └────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
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@kellogg76 did u install chromium-browser
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@sdetweil Yes, and then rebooted for good measure. Could it be anything to do with me running Raspbian Lite and not Desktop?
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@kellogg76 you MUST run desktop for chromium to work…
from the shell, do
pgrep Xorg
it should return a number