Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
4 inch RPi LCD displaying MM not working
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@aecandroid what version are you running? none of that is current…
use my installer script, it handles piw -4, odroid, jetson nano, any unix variant.
see the readme here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts
it will setup to launch chrome against serveronly exactly as it appears you have done…
oh, you need raspian buster… jessie and stretch are too old now
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@sdetweil Thanks for the help. I tried to start over from fresh. I’ve installed buster lite and completed a fresh install of MM and followed the
bash -c "$(curl -sL… commands listed. I still am not having any luck getting MagicMirror working on the 4 inch display. Everything is fine right up until I do the Waveshare driver install and then do./LCD4-show. Once I do that, I can see the device reboot, the HDMI no longer works and on the small LCD, I see the command prompt boot topi@raspberrypi:~ $. From this point, I can no longer get MagicMirror to run, even if I try to run./LCD-hdmi, MM does not start working again with HDMI. Something with the install of the Waveshare drivers is killing MM. I am genuinely at a loss. -
@aecandroid can’t be lite… needs to be the graphical version…
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@sdetweil in the immortal words of Homer J. Simpson - Doh! I’ll have to give this a try later this evening. Is there any reason the GUI version will work and the lite won’t with the small LCD?
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@aecandroid u MUST HAVE the gui version for electron to run, or chromium
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@sdetweil Right, so before I get ahead of myself and balls it up again. I have just installed Raspbian Buster Full 2020-02-13 image and going through the initial setup on my Pi Zero W. Should I do the Waveshare drivers for the 4 inch LCD first and then do the MM scripts on your github? Or should I run your scripts first, configure my MM, then do the Waveshare driver?
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@aecandroid i would get the hardware working first
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@sdetweil SOLVED!!!
Thank you everyone for your support. It seems that in the end, it was down to using Raspbian Lite. After downloading the full build and following the instructions on your github, were all sorted. Well… almost, I’ve got some sizing to play around with and still need to load my custom .css and .js but that shouldn’t be an issue at all. Thanks again for all your help, especially @sdetweil
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@aecandroid awesome!!.. glad u got it going and the feedback…
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@sdetweil I did as you suggested and installed the waveshare drivers after loading the desktop the first time, plus a little raspi-config action.
Thanks again for your help, much appreciated.
