Allocation of display sections (e.g. 'lower third' and so on) gives strange results after upgrade to 2.11.0

[phil]

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

[sdetweil]

@phil very interesting…

this version does update electron to v6.1.7

[phil]

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?

[sdetweil]

@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

[phil]

“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…

[sdetweil]

@phil yes, meant portrait

[sdetweil]

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

[phil]

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 !

[sdetweil]

@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…