How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero)

noorm91

Any clue on what is trying to start and not functioning alright here?

Starting MagicMirror: v2.1.0
Loading config ...
Loading module helpers ...
No helper found for module: alert.
Initializing new module helper ...
No helper found for module: clock.
No helper found for module: compliments.
No helper found for module: currentweather.
No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
Initializing new module helper ...
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server op port 8080 ...
Server started ...
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Connecting socket for: newsfeed
Starting module: newsfeed
Sockets connected & modules started ...

Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://localhost:8080
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
{ [Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::8080]
  code: 'EADDRINUSE',
  errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
  syscall: 'listen',
  address: '::',
  port: 8080 }
MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Server is already active for display 0
        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
        and start again.
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.
(EE)
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
      after 7 requests (7 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

bhepler

@noorm91 said in How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero):

Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://localhost:8080
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception…
{ [Error: listen EADDRINUSE
:::
8080]

This usually means that you already have a process trying to serve up web pages on port 8080. In my experience, this happens when you do not terminate your previous attempt to run the MM process and start up another one. The new one also tries to serve up pages on port 8080 and you get that error.

You can use ps ax | grep node to see if node is running when you attempt to start your mirror. If it is, node is already serving up pages, so you will want to stop whatever process is running first. Alternately, if you are running a web server on port 8080 already, you can switch the port of the MM process in the config.js file.

MarWind

So did anyone get MM2 on a Pi Zero W with Raspian Stretch lite running?
Or is it better to stay with Jessie?

Hawking

@MarWind
I still didn’t get it to work using Midori in combination with Raspian Stretch Lite.
On this distribution, I could only get it to work using Epiphany or Chromium. However, their performance is much slower than Midori (which worked fine in Jessie Lite). I can’t tell if this is due to some general changes in Stretch or in the newer versions of Midori.

noorm91

How did you install Chromium on rpi 0 ?

MarWind

@hawking, thanks for your answer!

I’ll do some more testing:

*So my main issue will be now the update of mm2 :-(
I’m running an working image on the pi zero w with npm 2.14 and node 4.2.1 for month’s now.
But after updating MM2 last week with git pull && npm install it’s broken :-(*

Hawking

@noorm91
I simply did

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

and the start is by

chromium-browser --incognito --kiosk http://localhost:8080

I don’t know if this is a new possibility in Stretch light or is also possible in Jessie Lite (I know that there were some issues in the past). However, as I said, the performance is slow and not stable (I see that the free amount of memory gets low and the system freezes every few hours). Therefore I would prefer to use still Midori, whoch worked fine for me in Jessie. However, using Midori with Stretch I simply get a black screen. I don’t know if this is due to an error in my installation, due to changes from Jessie to Stretch, due to changes in the Midori browser, due to changes in MM (I tried to install an older version, which didn’t help) or yet another reason.

Parth Bhandari

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Parth Bhandari

@Kobie said in How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero):

sudo npm install

Thanks. I was stuck on the 6th step.

Andrius ok

@Parth-Bhandari check this thread https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/32731

lasharor

Couldn’t get this to work at all on the new distro:

(chromium-browser:1470): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

I’ll check if the image works for me.

@Andrius-ok would be nice if you could create and upload an image.

PipoloyJo

Hi everyone, I did not read all 16 pages of this thread but I successfully setup my MM on a Raspberry Pie Zero W, following this answer https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero/8

I decided to compile all instructions in a basic bash script since some of these steps can be quite long to execute: https://github.com/PipoloyJo/MMConfig/blob/master/setup-mirror.sh

Maybe someone else has already done the same, but I did not found it.

Only difference so far is the use of chromium over midori (I got some issues setting it up).

Thanks for this thread!

Andrius ok

@lasharor did you using Raspberry Pi Zero W ?

lasharor

@Andrius-ok Yes.

Tried the Image also. works fine after upgrading. Was not succesfull upgrading magicmirror however. Trying PipoloyJo solution now.

Andrius ok

@lasharor ok tomorrow I will share the image

lasharor

@PipoloyJo So I also tried this. Can you please specify which distro you are using? As this is not working on Jessie.
Also the script should contain apt-get upgrade in the beginning. Otherwise you’ll not be able to download most packages due to incorrect links.

Trying now on stretch.

Edit: having problems with rpi-update (or upgrade), will not download the full image can’t run chrome in sandboxed mode. So tried to run MM by disabling sandboxed mode. End up with working Chrome but blank black screen.

:(

PipoloyJo

@lasharor I am using Raspbian Stretch. I also got issue with rpi-update, but I got MM to work without it.

lasharor

@PipoloyJo If you don’t update you can’t launch Chromium in sandboxed mode, what are your flags for chrome?

@Andrius-ok Would be great if you could share.

lasharor

@Andrius-ok said in How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero):

@lasharor ok tomorrow I will share the image

Have you forgotten :(?

Andrius ok

Hi @lasharor , my apologies. Yes I have forgotten, very sorry was on long vacation.
So there is my MM image with Chromium for Raspberry Pi Zero W

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kdo5q1pxjluca49/AACvP81YjZik6R90BHZNiSZ5a?dl=0

note: you have to configure WiFi by yoursefl and also all modules to work properly in Yours language.