Installing on a Pi Zero

sdetweil

@ebolisa in css/main.css body should have cursor:none

you are running chromium-browser, not electron, but should have been the same

sdetweil

@ebolisa pi0 doesnt have a lot of power, so beware running too much…

check swap space usage

free -m

to see if it needs to be made bigger

ebolisa

@sdetweil Yes, I set swap to 1024. It’s slow but it works.
Thanks again!!

RushHour99

@sdetweil , I went through a fresh SD card install for a Pi Zero W. raspbian and then the raspberry.sh script via your github page. I believe everything completed without error.

However when Magic Mirror launches on reboot, I get a blank page indicating:

This site can’t be reached
localhost refused to connect

Any idea what to do to troubleshoot?

sdetweil

@rushhour99 is this with extra modules or just the base?

can u show the output of

pm2 logs --lines=100

RushHour99

@sdetweil said in Installing on a Pi Zero:

pm2 logs --lines=100

This just the Magic Mirror base. I haven’t added any extra modules.

Unfortunately I cannot paste the pm2 logs output. When I try it gets caught in some sort of spam filter and won’t let me post.

sdetweil

@rushhour99 u can email to me… same userid on gmail

also attach /home/pi/install.log

RushHour99

@sdetweil Thanks, error log emailed. Ive done this process before without error ~9 months ago. Maybe the rasbian version or magic mirror version has changed recently that is now causing the problem.

sdetweil

@rushhour99 there is a new MM version every 2 months…

I test on my own pi 0 .

haven’t seen a problem like this

sent email back, can u send install.log

sdetweil

@rushhour99 do this

sudo npm i -g npm@6

this will downgrade npm to v6

then

cd ~/MagicMirror
rm -rf node_modules
rm package-lock.json
npm install --only=prod

and check if the config.js file exists

ls ~/MagicMirror/config/config,js -laF