Setup from scratch for beginners?

[Adrian_O]

Hi there

I really appreciate all the work you guys put in the software and the help in the forums.

I am an absolute beginner with raspberry pi. And it is 30 years ago I did some pascal programming. (Yes at Highschool I got an A+ - but this helps little here in real life).

So I went through the very detailed step by step tutorial to setup Magic Mirror. Easy enough, I thought.

Unfortunately I get a black screen when running MM.
So I went through all the forum to see how to possibly set up Magic Mirror and getting no blank screen. Going back to older versions of software did not help.

Is there any chance there will be a new step by step setup tutorial which will lead to a running system sometime soon?

And again, I admire your commitment and your efforts. And will gladly consider a donation.

I redid the installation of raspbian and the setup of MagicMirror software 3 times. Some frustration coming up and not yet the good feeling overcoming those obstacles…

4.19.34-v/+ #1211
Caspian GNU Linux 9
MM all non-default modules disabled

tried with latest electron and with electron beta.

So right now, a Magic Mirror may not be set up with the help of the step by step tutorial, right? As there is ongoing troubles with latest electron versions?

Thank you very much

[sdetweil]

first, lets see if there is an error

on the black screen, using keyboard press crtl-shift-i to open the developers window
then using mouse select the console tab, and scroll up to see if there are any errors…(red text)

black screen is usually caused by some fatal error in the UI components

[Adrian_O]

Thank you Sam

These are the errors

Seems, the access on those links not possible.
When I manually click on those links, I see them.

(Do I have a problem with port 8080 being blocked and used by other applications)

I may ask stupid questions. Please be patient with a beginner like me…

But I see a lot of users having similar problems after latest updates.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost:8080/fonts/node_modules/roboto-fontface/fonts/roboto-condensed/Roboto-Condensed-Regular.woff2 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost:8080/fonts/node_modules/roboto-fontface/fonts/roboto-condensed/Roboto-Condensed-Regular.woff Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost:8080/fonts/node_modules/roboto-fontface/fonts/roboto-condensed/Roboto-Condensed-Regular.ttf Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost:8080/vendor/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost:8080/vendor/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/v4-shims.min.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
loader.js:206 Error on loading stylesheet: vendor/css/font-awesome.css
http://localhost:8080/vendor/node_modules/moment/min/moment-with-locales.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
loader.js:190 Error on loading script: vendor/node_modules/moment/min/moment-with-locales.js
http://localhost:8080/vendor/node_modules/moment-timezone/builds/moment-timezone-with-data.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
loader.js:190 Error on loading script: vendor/node_modules/moment-timezone/builds/moment-timezone-with-data.js
http://localhost:8080/vendor/node_modules/weathericons/css/weather-icons.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
loader.js:206 Error on loading stylesheet: vendor/node_modules/weathericons/css/weather-icons.css
clock.js:49 Uncaught ReferenceError: moment is not defined
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
http://localhost:8080/vendor/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost:8080/vendor/node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/v4-shims.min.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost:8080/vendor/node_modules/weathericons/css/weather-icons.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
clock.js:77 Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: moment is not defined(…)
…
(repeat latest error again and again)

thanks for your kind help

Adrian

[Adrian_O]

1032:0418/181017:ERROR:CONSOLE(0)] “Font from origin ‘http://localhost:8080’ has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ‘chrome-devtools://devtools’ is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 404.”, source: chrome-devtools://devtools/bundled/inspector.html?remoteBase=https://chrome-devtools-frontend.appspot.com/serve_file/@f33d44362232c20d1ce2111c53ea8730698f3c88/&can_dock=true&toolbarColor=rgba(223,223,223,1)&textColor=rgba(0,0,0,1)&experiments=true (0)

[sdetweil]

@Adrian_O can u do

in MM folder

ls fonts -laF

did u do sudo npm install?

[sdetweil]

oh, and can u show the config entry for

var config = {
  address: "0.0.0.0", // 

spammers have ruined everything…

there is a security check now… localhost == 0.0.0.0 when false, results in the cross-site-scripting rejection

[sdetweil]

what modules did u install? beyond the defaults?