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A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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Allocation of display sections (e.g. 'lower third' and so on) gives strange results after upgrade to 2.11.0

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    phil
    last edited by Apr 9, 2020, 9:07 PM

    Yes, I have a display_rotate=1 in my /boot/config.txt

    But even when I turn it back to 0 and restart the raspberry the issue seems to stay the same.

    1569539256498.remmina-2020-4-9-21:5:31,807371.png

    I’ll try to go back to the previous commit and my backup folder and have a look if the issue vanish or persist. Maybe it’s a driver problem…

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      phil
      last edited by Apr 9, 2020, 9:46 PM

      Well, the backup is still working as before. So it is somehow related to the new version 2.11.0

      1569539256498.remmina-2020-4-9-21:46:16,173352.png

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        sdetweil @phil
        last edited by Apr 9, 2020, 10:07 PM

        @phil very interesting…

        this version does update electron to v6.1.7

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          phil
          last edited by Apr 10, 2020, 1:00 AM

          I’m not sure if electron is the issue. I tried with several commits and figured out 7b3a594 is still working fine for me, but 6e7edd9 (the one before the “Upgrade to Electron 6”) already causes this problem for me.

          Oh, I just realized there is an electron upgrade already in this commit (although it is not stated in the commit message):

          > electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
          > node ./download-chromedriver.js
          
          
          > electron@6.1.7 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
          > node install.js
          

          So might well be an electron issue. Can you give me some advice how I can try different versions to see which one is working for my setup?

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            sdetweil @phil
            last edited by sdetweil Apr 14, 2020, 11:36 AM Apr 10, 2020, 1:12 AM

            @phil erase the node_modules/electron folder
            Then do

            npm install electron@version --only=prod
            

            The --only keeps from loading the stuff used by testing… like the chromedriver

            I last tested 6.0.12, but don’t know if it was ok for portrait mode use

            U may have to redo npm install in module folders. As many modules depend on electron levels

            All this from the MagicMirror folder

            Sam

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              phil
              last edited by Apr 14, 2020, 10:41 AM

              “I last tested 6.0.12, but don’t know if it was ok for profile use”
              Did you mean ‘portrait’ use? But I have this problem also in landscape mode without rotated screen.

              I removed the electron folders in node_modules and did

              npm install electron@3.0.6 --only=prod
              

              With this version everything is fine again. I try to figure out for which version of electron it breaks…

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                sdetweil @phil
                last edited by Apr 14, 2020, 11:11 AM

                @phil yes, meant portrait

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                  sdetweil @phil
                  last edited by Apr 14, 2020, 11:12 AM

                  @phil the last version of MM 2.10 was using electron 3.0.13

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                    phil
                    last edited by phil Apr 14, 2020, 1:07 PM Apr 14, 2020, 1:05 PM

                    I have the following results now:

                    electron 3.x.x : working as expected
                    electron 4.x.x : not working at all, the screen stays black
                    from electron 5 up to latest version (8.2.2) : The text of the different modules gets overlaid as shown in the screenshots.

                    For the moment I stay at version 3.0.13 as all the modules I’m using are working fine.
                    (alert, updatenotification, clock, calendar, compliments, newsfeed, helloworls, MMM-ImageSlideshow)

                    But I fear at some point I’ll have to update to be able to use the latest MagicMirror commit…

                    Can I somehow set this topic to “Closed” or “Solved” (at least for now ;-) )?

                    And, thank you very much for your help, @sdetweil !

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                      sdetweil @phil
                      last edited by Apr 14, 2020, 2:14 PM

                      @phil you will probably need to do npm install in some of the module folders when u change electron versions…

                      I would do the test with the sample config…

                      anyhow… u didn’t open this as a problem, so it can’t be closed…

                      Sam

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