electron-rebuild and MagicMirror v2.18 (and more)

bugsounet

@hedmik : i just share (one of) my own library ;)

cyber152

@bugsounet thank you very much, for weeks I am looking for a solution to finally be able to add an essential function to the mirror :thumbs_up:

gonzonia

@bugsounet THANK YOU! This saved me a lot of headaches. I went ahead and updated to 2.18 and got the exact error you reference in the exact same module. A quick search and I found your very helpful solution. Thank you for sharing.

lhops

I get an error when " ~/node_modules $ ~/.bin/MagicMirror-rebuild"
error=(an unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild)
unable to find electron’s version number of MagicMirror etc

lhops

@lhops
Can or has anyone written code for an new MMM-PIR-Sensor module that will work will the new version of MagicMirror. If not is that something that your can do? I wish I knew more about the code I would do it myself.

bugsounet

@lhops said in electron-rebuild and MagicMirror v2.18 (and more):

I get an error when " ~/node_modules $ ~/.bin/MagicMirror-rebuild"

execute ./node_modules/.bin/MagicMirror-rebuild INSIDE the module directory ;)

not inside other directory ;)
Note :

every module in MagicMirror is there:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules

After change again the directory to your wanted module,
for MMM-PIR-Sensor module (for example):

cd MMM-PIR-Sensor

after install magicmirror-rebuild

npm i magicmirror-rebuild

execute MagicMirror-rebuild program

./node_modules/.bin/MagicMirror-rebuild

you will see MagicMirror Rebuild Complete
it’s done ;)

lhops

@bugsounet
This is the results of the instructions:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor $ npm i magicmirror-rebuild
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
npm ERR! path /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/package.json
npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected string in JSON at position 803 while parsing ‘{
npm ERR! JSON.parse “name”: "Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sen’
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse JSON data.
npm ERR! JSON.parse Note: package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2022-01-10T14_40_47_069Z-debug-0.log

I am sure you can look at this and see my problem.
Thank you for all your help!

bugsounet

@lhops said in electron-rebuild and MagicMirror v2.18 (and more):

npm ERR! JSON.parse “name”: "Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sen’

If you have modified the “package.json” file … and you do not respect the syntax.
here is the result ;)
(Info: it is not like this that we rename a module)

to correct your issue try this:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor
rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
git reset --hard HEAD
npm install magicmirror-rebuild --save
npm remove electron-rebuild
npm install

(Sometime, i’m very kind… So kind for me)

@bugsounet

lhops

@bugsounet
That did the trick. How can I thank you. It is working like it should!!

bugsounet

I have open this PR (Pull Request) for commit this change with MagicMirror-rebuild to @paviro to accept it (or not)