updated installer script available for testing

swvalenti

@sdetweil So I renamed the old magicmirror folder and updated. Now the updates stripped modules and config.js. They are not in the new magicmirror folder at all…what gives?

sdetweil

@swvalenti this is not an update, it is a NEW install…

so you have to copy from the old mm folder to the new…

if u wanted to UPDATE then u should run the UPDATE script

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10859/new-update-upgrade-script-ready-for-testing

swvalenti

@sdetweil Well I am an idiot, so I can just delete the new MagicMirror folder and then run the update in the other?

sdetweil

@swvalenti yes… UPDATE just gets you the new MagicMirror version. currently 2.9.0

swvalenti

Thanks Sam

bhepler

Huh. I just tried it on a fresh Buster install on a RPI 3B+ and PM2 failed to install correctly. It seems to be a permissions issue.

sdetweil

@bhepler show me the log please

~/install.log

bhepler

It’s not terribly illuminating.

install and setup pm2
pm2 not installed, installing
pm2 install result
get the pm2 platform specific startup command
startup command =
pm2 startup command done
configure the pm2 config file for MagicMirror
start MagicMirror via pm2 now
save MagicMirror pm2 config now
disable screensaver via lxsession

sdetweil

@bhepler hang on, I’ll be back home in a few minutes.

Can u do

pm2 startup

bhepler

@sdetweil I already went through the installation procedure to get pm2 installed. That required the npm command to install pm2.

After the initial script run, pm2 start MagicMirror returned a “bash: pm2: command not found” error. Once I got pm2 installed, getting the script monitored by pm2 was easy enough. At a guess, it’s a problem with using sudo to install pm2, but I’m afraid I don’t have the exact error message.