Problems with Config.js on Pi4 BlackScreen

sdetweil

@dazza120 ok, let’s stop pm2

pm2 list
pm2 stop 0

Go to the MagicMirror folder
Then

npm start dev

In the developers window, select the console tab and scroll up to see any errors.

dazza120

Could this be the problem? Never been any issues with the pi 3 on Rasbian, and thank you sir offering to help much appreciated

npm ERR! path /home/pi/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-07-13T16_51_46_205Z-debug.log

sdetweil

@dazza120 must be in the MagicMirror folder for npm start

dazza120

@sdetweil hi im getting the dev window then into console bet there is nothing at all in there just > So what do i have to run in the dev window is it cd MagicMirrior then pm2 start MagicMirrior? im lost just work dam you mirror lol

sdetweil

@dazza120 pm2 runs the DEFINITION named x. It doesn’t care about folder.

The setup typically uses the pm2_MagicMirror.json file in installers, or the mm.sh there as well.

mm.sh has a bug, it uses ~ to mark ‘current user’, but when start on boot, the user is root, not pi. So the startup fails. My new installer fixes that.

So, edit mm.sh and change the path to
/home/pi/MagicMirror

dazza120

@sdetweil its in that path already but it is completely empty. should it contain text?

sdetweil

@dazza120 sorry, what is “it’s”?

dazza120

@sdetweil /home/pi/MagicMirror The mm.sh should it contain text?

sdetweil

@dazza120 sorry… what is completely empty? mm.sh is in installers folder

dazza120

@sdetweil i unhide my files and one is in the location i said with no text and the other is in installer as you said with text