Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?

lpt2007

sdetweil

@lpt2007 if u want to run it on the same system, yes, it is a graphical application,
if you want to access the server from a remote system (only) , then no… it can run in serveronly mode

for pi 0, the local embedded browser (electron) is no longer available for the version of node now being provided, so we drop back to serveronly mode and use chromium-browser to run the mirror locally, but that requires graphical mode

as most users don’t know all this, i updated the run-start.sh script to do all this for you.
if no X11, (system in console mode) then run in serveronly

lpt2007

I try to run it in docker container with gui on my pi . But when I start it, there is no output to HDMI. MM starts in server mode no matter what I do.

sdetweil

@lpt2007 said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

I try to run it in docker container with gui on my pi

which docker container?

the linked one starts MM in serveronly inside the container and then u use a browser on the outside of the container to access to exposed port.

there is a second docker solution that uses the fact that one can SEE and ACCESS the docker runtime and launches electron to push content out to the X11 gui… this is really cheating…
but there was a fix created

replace the run-start.sh with this one from the next release
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/develop/run-start.sh

lpt2007

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

replace the run-start.sh with this one from the next release
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/develop/run-start.sh

I changed run-start.sh file and now I get this error:

> magicmirror@2.10.1 start /root/MagicMirror
> ./run-start.sh
/root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.10.1 start: `./run-start.sh`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-01-15T11_40_27_011Z-debug.log

sdetweil

@lpt2007 graphical stuff not loaded in container.

sdetweil

I would look at this docker setup
https://gitlab.com/khassel/magicmirror

Otherwise run container in serveronly mode and use chrome on the pi to view the app.

lpt2007

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

@lpt2007 graphical stuff not loaded in container.

I added needed graphical libraries, now I get this error:

/root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3: no version information available (required by /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron)
/root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3: no version information available (required by /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.10.1 start: `./run-start.sh`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-01-16T19_00_47_796Z-debug.log

sdetweil

@lpt2007 need more libraries.

I’d run serveronly in the container, and use chromium from outside the container

lpt2007

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

@lpt2007 need more libraries.

I’d run serveronly in the container, and use chromium from outside the container

Thanks, but this is not an option, because I try to use mm as addon for Home Assistant and I use hassos image. The mm will be one of the systems I will use on rpi and I will call them trough ha when I need them.

Any idea what error I posted means?

sdetweil

@lpt2007 said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

Any idea what error I posted means?

yes, u need more libraries loaded into the container…

/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3

sdetweil

@lpt2007 use the other docker image I posted a link to… it ‘supposedly’ works… but depends on a security breach in my opinion,
letting a container write directly to the docker host XWIndows

sdetweil

@lpt2007 said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

Thanks, but this is not an option, because I try to use mm as addon for Home Assistant and I use hassos image

i don’t really understand, as BOTH approaches will require some browser to be running ON the HASSOS image ALL THE TIME… (somewhere)

lpt2007

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

yes, u need more libraries loaded into the container…
/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3

This library is already installed.

sdetweil

@lpt2007 said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

This library is already installed.

no version information available

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/16364

lpt2007

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

not the right one

I installed this one:

root@local-mm:/# apt install libdbus-1-3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libdbus-1-3 is already the newest version (1.10.28-0+deb9u1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

sdetweil

@lpt2007 i don’t know… the error says its not right.
I don’t know how to solve it…

again, I would go look at that other docker container which does what you want (maybe)

lpt2007

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

i don’t really understand, as BOTH approaches will require some browser to be running ON the HASSOS image ALL THE TIME… (somewhere)

Container with mm must connect to host display. I made something simmilar with kodi media center in docker container.

sdetweil

@lpt2007 ok, and why does chrome on the hassos not work?

lpt2007

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

@lpt2007 ok, and why does chrome on the hassos not work?

Maybe I can try to made ha addon with chrome in kiosk mode to see where the problem is?