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    Mason 0
    last edited by Nov 25, 2021, 1:17 AM

    I’ve been troubleshooting many different installers and methods for installer Magic Mirror on the Pi Zero W, and I finally got one to work. However, after booting, the Pi launches the web browser, but I have to manually click the Magic Mirror shortcut in the browser. I used this script for the installation, which includes pm2 auto start. After I found the issue, I disabled the preinstalled pm2 auto-start and made my own based on this guide. Unfortunately, I get the same problem where the pi launches the browser, but not Magic Mirror. To be clear, I can manually start Magic Mirror, but on reboot, only the browser launches. Any ideas? I’m not too experienced working with Raspberry Pi’s, so if you could dumb down the answers that’d be ideal.

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      sdetweil @Mason 0
      last edited by sdetweil Nov 25, 2021, 1:52 AM Nov 25, 2021, 1:49 AM

      @mason-0 my setup script configures pm2 to launch installers/mm.sh

      which does npm start

      can u send me the install.log
      same userid at gmail

      pm2 has lots of options

      status
      info

      pm2 --help will show u all the options

      to do start at boot
      you do pm2 start
      and then pm2 save
      to make that restartable at boot

      Sam

      How to add modules

      learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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        sdetweil @sdetweil
        last edited by sdetweil Nov 25, 2021, 2:42 AM Nov 25, 2021, 2:30 AM

        @sdetweil I test my script on the pi0w (and w2) and have to make a special setup on the pi0w as there is no Electron version for armv6l now…

        so I download a script to use to launch MM as server mode and then launch chromium over that as the UI component

        looks and acts the same

        pi0w needs more memory, so u have to increase the swap space

        as the documented platform is FULL desktop, chromium-browser is installed and usable

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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          JasperTheWeasel2
          last edited by Dec 11, 2021, 6:28 PM

          @sdetweil I was having the same problem with mine. I tried the pm2 start and it gave me this error [PM2][ERROR] File ecosystem.config.js not found.

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            sdetweil @JasperTheWeasel2
            last edited by Dec 11, 2021, 6:38 PM

            @jaspertheweasel2 how did u install pm2

            Sam

            How to add modules

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              JasperTheWeasel2
              last edited by Dec 12, 2021, 6:09 PM

              @sdetweil I used your guide on Github. I ran the master script, then the upgrade-script and upgrade-script apply, then screensaveroff, and last fixuppm2.

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                sdetweil @JasperTheWeasel2
                last edited by sdetweil Dec 12, 2021, 10:14 PM Dec 12, 2021, 9:30 PM

                @jaspertheweasel2 only one thing to install

                later when new mm release use upgrade

                if u said no to pm2 during install then fixup lets you add it later.

                no need to run them all at once

                Sam

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                  JasperTheWeasel2 @sdetweil
                  last edited by Dec 15, 2021, 3:56 PM

                  @sdetweil So how can I fix this? Everything else works except it doesn’t automatically start.

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                    sdetweil @JasperTheWeasel2
                    last edited by sdetweil Dec 16, 2021, 2:45 AM Dec 15, 2021, 4:23 PM

                    @jaspertheweasel2 run the fixuppm2 script,

                    happens occasionally don’t know why

                    Sam

                    How to add modules

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