updated installer script available for testing

sdetweil

@BD0G i’d go with the latest, buster

BD0G

Ok. I will find the image and reimage my micro sd card and then run the install script from the first post and report back. Thanks!

Im going with
Raspbian Buster with desktop and recommended software
Image with desktop and recommended software based on Debian Buster
Version:September 2019
Release date:2019-09-26
Kernel version:4.19
Size:2541 MB

On second thought a smaller image seems more appropriate.

Raspbian Buster with desktop
Image with desktop based on Debian Buster
Version:September 2019
Release date:2019-09-26
Kernel version:4.19
Size:1123 MB

sdetweil

@BD0G yeh, the ‘recommended software’ includes a bunch of office apps , which u don’t need for a mirror system

BD0G

Well that worked! Looks like Jesse is just too long in the tooth to run Magic Mirror2. Thanks again!

sdetweil

@BD0G cool. Thanks for the feedback. Could u post the the install.log to your Dropbox or email to me. Just want to look it over. Need to think about adding info about Jesse now.

We need to update electron too (doesn’t work on pi 0 anymore, well armv6l devices)

BD0G

I am having a heck of a time. I cannot use the local browser to visit my drop box site any longer as it directs me to localhost_/ and there is no web address bar to type the dropbox website into.

sdetweil

@BD0G chrome is being used for the mirror display, as electron no longer works with the later levels of node.

I wouldn’t have expected another use to carry over the settings from the mirror task…

pm2 stop 0

then use chrome

them

pm2 start 0

BD0G

Finally got it to work and upload to my dropbox. Stopping Magic Mirror worked and allowed the Chromium browser to access the drop box webpage, but using my standard credentials (which were correct) just timed out on the logon page. I tried this like 20 times. No dice. Finally logged into dropbox using my google account instead and that allowed me to access a dropbox account that I setup using google credentials.
Ridiculous!

Here is the link to the install.log
https://www.dropbox.com/s/425lhitp7tcftih/install.log?dl=0

Now on to the fun of making just simple syntax errors in the config.js file when configuring modules only to have Magic Mirror 2 complain that there is no config.js or an error. This process is 100 percent suck!

sdetweil

@BD0G cool, thanks…

as for config

each module is

{
   module:   "name",
   position: "string",
   config : {
      something: "string",
      other_thing: number,
      another: true 
   }
}

not that each line has a trailing comma
number/booleans don’t need quotes,
everything else does

single or double doesn’t matter, just have to match on a line

if troubles
do

npm run config:check

first 1st error, (usually reported on the line AFTER the error )
rerun, etc

BD0G

Thanks ! Thats the process I have been using . Painstaking. Small details always cause errors. Even if I cut and paste right from the github repository using the authors code.