<![CDATA[Black screen with cursor]]>Hello everybody.

Today I did some work on my mirror again.
I installed two modules and configured them.
With one I made the mistake of using “npm install” in the “Magic Mirror” folder.
However, everything went normally for the time being.

After further settings in the config and another restart, the screen remained black with a cursor in the upper corner.

I hope you can help me and all my work has not been in vain.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/13834/black-screen-with-cursorRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 16:26:56 GMTWed, 14 Oct 2020 18:13:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:40:25 GMT]]>@Clubjack well. 2.13 is current. lots of fixes since then. but if it’s working for you…

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83684https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83684Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:40:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:34:28 GMT]]>@sdetweil
Yes… I think i have 2.3.

Should i Update the System?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83683https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83683Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:34:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 18:36:24 GMT]]>@Clubjack ok , you must be running an older version… we moved that in 2.10 to the MagicMirror/js folder to prevent the file being erased by an npm security cleanup feature

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83622https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83622Sat, 17 Oct 2020 18:36:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:09:21 GMT]]>@sdetweil
it was the Module Node_helper.

I did this:
git checkout modules/node_modules/node_helper/index.js

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83618https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83618Sat, 17 Oct 2020 17:09:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:13:09 GMT]]>@Clubjack and what did u do to get it back?

is this the ~/MagicMirror/js/node_helper.js
or the module node_helper.js

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83543https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83543Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:13:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:11:16 GMT]]>@sdetweil Maybe my last installed Module “destroyed” the file.
It was the MMM-WiFiPassword

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83542https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83542Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:11:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:38:42 GMT]]>@Clubjack thanks for the feedback, but I’d like to understand what happened. I put a fix I a few releases ago to stop the node_helper.js file from being erased.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83418https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83418Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:38:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:15:44 GMT]]>@sdetweil

I got it. Node_helper was replaced and it worked immediately. I’m so glad the work wasn’t in vain.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83399https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83399Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:15:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:12:12 GMT]]>@Clubjack show more of log please

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83372https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83372Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:12:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:29:17 GMT]]>@sdetweil
I think, i am on Version 2.1.3

Pm2 logs says : cannot find Module “node_helper”.

Could that be my problem?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83371https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83371Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:29:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Black screen with cursor on Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:24:26 GMT]]>@Clubjack are u on version 2.13?

see the translation problem fix at the top of the troubleshooting section?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83368https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/83368Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:24:26 GMT