Hi, MM Community, I recently installed an Adafruit PIR sensor, and configured it using this MagicMirrorCentral guide ( https://www.magicmirrorcentral.com/pir-sensor-raspberry-pi-magic-mirror/ ), and I rebooted like the instructions said. Instead of my normal desktop showing up, all I get is a black screen with my cursor on it, but there is nothing to click. I can’t even get to the terminal to run any commands. Please help me with this, what have I done wrong, and how can I fix it?

I had a similar problem when I used MMM-PIR-Sensor module. Everything had been working for about 6 months then I updated something and it stoped working. I re-installed everything several times and through a process of elimination and google searches it acmes down to this particular module. I have now got it a working again by finding the latest update from a branched version of MMM-PIR-Sensor module. I never did find the cause.

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Black screen instead of desktop after installing PIR sensor

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I had a simmilar Problem an had to use my old Backup after investigating hours. It seems that there are Problems between versions of node and electron. Do you have a white Window shortly and then the black desktop screen?
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