Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Running MM2 on Pi Zero W
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I will give this a try. Is there anything different your script does than just installing directly from Michael’s site?
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@pattanner92 my stuff is listed as one of the alternative installers. I do a lot of work to make it run, regardless of platform.
on pi0w I use chrome to show mm. over the server. as electron is no longer available
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@pattanner92 u need to move the current MagicMirror folder out of the way, or delete it
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@sdetweil I know of and appreciate the work you do, and this did work, however I am someone who likes to know what is going awry when tinkering. So I can apply that knowledge later when something is broken again. Which is why I ask. I am not using the browser on the Pi itself. Is a browser still needed when running server only mode? I figured the Pi just shares the information to whatever device is requesting it to allow it to be analyzed and displayed on the client.
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@pattanner92 browser is not needed. you can set
serverOnly: true,in config.js to have it not start the browser.
to access mm from outside the pi, u need to enable outside accessaddress:"0.0.0.0", ipWhitelist:[],it’s a lot for people to learn all at once. I want to get you running, then you feel accomplished and can move on to other changes.
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@sdetweil I understand all that, I was just getting tripped up on making it show things. For some reason it was displaying a black screen on remote devices. It was properly connecting to the Pi as the tab in the browser showed “MagicMirror2”, but no modules loaded. I couldn’t make sense of the logs either.
I appreciate your script as it got me going. I can indeed move to other changes, and I have plenty to do if I want something to look as nice as the one in my office (photo attached - including my custom Christmas snow)!
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@pattanner92 open the developers window on the remote browser
ctrl-shift-i and select the console tab
