Black Screen

[MassiveArts 0]

@bkeyport said in Black Screen:

@massivearts-0 the way you posted it, the forum corrupted it.

Please place ``` around the code next time.

That being said, go to the magicmirror directory, and type:

npm run config:check

It’ll help you solve the errors.

[BKeyport]

@massivearts-0 you must be in the MagicMirror directory.

pi@officemirror:~ $ cd MagicMirror/
pi@officemirror:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

> magicmirror@2.16.0 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
> node js/check_config.js

[08.07.2021 16:19.03.333] [INFO]  Checking file...  /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
[08.07.2021 16:19.03.575] [INFO]  Your configuration file doesn't contain syntax errors :)

[MassiveArts 0]

@bkeyport said in Black Screen:

you must be in the MagicMirror directory.

[BKeyport]

@massivearts-0 back down to ~/MagicMirror/ and try the command there. Also, the config file should be at ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js

[MassiveArts 0]

@bkeyport said in Black Screen:

@massivearts-0 back down to ~/MagicMirror/ and try the command there. Also, the config file should be at ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js

Didn’t work

[sdetweil]

@massivearts-0 open a terminal window onto the pi

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm run check:config

but as I said on discord
we need to see the messages that are output when u start MagicMirror

you either do
npm start
or pm2 start

if pm2 then the command to display the logs is
pm2 logs --lines=100

the black screen is probably a missing dependency module, and the messages will tell us which one

[DJBOOB66]

Maybe position: ‘position’, is your problem add a location on mirror like “top_left”

[sdetweil]

@djboob66 yes, he had “top_Bar” before, but that is not the black screen

maybe no content displayed as mm can’t figure out where to put it

system is case sensitive

[sdetweil]

the module he added didn’t document needing request

[DJBOOB66]

You did do
cd git clone https://github.com/amcolash/MMM-GoogleFit.git
cd MMM-GoogleFit
npm install
???

[sdetweil]

@djboob66 yes he did. but the module uses the request library without documenting it in the package.json

and request was removed from the MagicMirror package in 2.15.

[BKeyport]

@sdetweil how dare they remove libraries in the main program they don’t use anymore! 🤣🤣

[sdetweil]

@bkeyport and forced to stop using!!

[bugsounet]

Many sub library use again it, it’s very very long to depreciate a library ;)