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

Hawking

@bmarofsky
I’m also trying to install Magic Mirror on a Pi Zero W.

I think one reason for the problems might be that as far as I can tell

sudo wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb

got me node v4.2.1 which is quite outdated (the regular installer of MM2 updates nodes if the version of node is below 5.1.0).
I therefore tried to install a more recent version of node following the commands here
https://github.com/sdesalas/node-pi-zero
However, the compilation of Magic Mirror worked neither with node 7.7.1 nor with node 6.9.1.

Before I go into details, did anybody got Magic Mirror working on Raspberry Pi Zero W?
Which node version (and npm version) did you use and how you he install it? Which browser did you use (I read that Midori has some problems)?

Mitchfarino

@ArkantosArk

This is @SebTota 's link https://mega.nz/#!XlIU3QjI!QSdvAE3yXp1oMsdRGNte6lt4SncgvfozSDU7xhxtbbM

Hawking

I could fix my issue with the blank screen by simply doing

cd ~/MagicMirror/vendor
npm install

Then it seem to work (even with the node v 4.2.1). Nevertheless I will try to update to a more recent version of node, just to avoid other problems that are likely to exist in this old node version.

longod

Hi! I have followed this guide step by step and so precisely, however I am still getting an error when I type in DISPLAY=:0 npm start through SSH. This is the output:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ DISPLAY=:0 npm start

> magicmirror@2.1.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.50+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v4.2.1
npm ERR! npm  v2.14.7
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.1 start script 'sh run-start.sh'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     sh run-start.sh
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls magicmirror
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log

Any help on what to do to solve this would be greatly appreciated!

Hawking

@longod

I didn’t try your way of starting the MagicMirror. However, is there a reason that you don’t use the commands in the guide to start the MagicMirror (using the start.sh and startMidori scripts)? There is no DISPLAY=:0 npm start mentioned in this thread.

RV

@randombullet i followed those steps but i got a error it says that he cannot connect with localhost: 8080 webpage?

dantodd

have you tried just using “npm start” in ssh? That works for me.

RV

@dantodd you mean every time i start my rasp on i need to type npm start?

Hawking

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

@dantodd you mean every time i start my rasp on i need to type npm start?

no, that is definitely not necessary.

I don’t know the reason for the error message (is there actually a space between localhost: and 8080?). What happens if you run

cd ~/MagicMirror
node serveronly &

manually?

dantodd

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

@dantodd you mean every time i start my rasp on i need to type npm start?

Automating the process is fairly simple but let’s get you up and running first. You should also check your permissions in the config.js file. Make sure that your whitelist is properly configured.