Trouble getting it to start

[PhilsterM9]

@in_a_days Could you explain how to do the
“cd MagicMirror/config
cp config.js.sample config.js”
I can’t get it to work because I don’t know how to do it

[in_a_days]

@PhilsterM9

You need to launch the Terminal to get to the command prompt. Same place from which you launched the MM installer. If you type:

cd MagicMirror/config

you should see that you’ve changed directories. Then type:

cp config.js.sample config.js

That’s it. MM should be ready to launch.

[PhilsterM9]

@in_a_days As I did as you said, this is what happened which I am not sure if it is supposed to happen

[in_a_days]

@PhilsterM9

Yes! From that screen type:

cd ..

So you see

pi@raspberrypi: /MagicMirror $

then type

DISPLAY=:0 npm start

[yawns]

@PhilsterM9 said in Trouble getting it to start:

I am not sure if it is supposed to happen!

Just as a side note: This is linux. No news is good news. By default there is no feedback like “1 file copied”.
If you don’t feel comfortable with the shell you can work on your raspberry directly using the file explorer

[PhilsterM9]

@in_a_days I tried it and it turned on. But when I reboot it, it doesn’t open the magic mirror like it should, even though I did all the pm2 steps. Also how do I change some of the settings of the magic mirror? (eg. timezone etc.)

[in_a_days]

@PhilsterM9

That is weird! If you are able to launch the mirror software with

DISPLAY=:0 npm start

PM2 should definitely work :(

If you want to modify system settings like timezone, go to your terminal command line and

sudo raspi-config

This will allow you modify a LOT of system settings including time zone and keyboard layout. If you’re looking to modify the configuration of modules on your mirror software you need to edit your config.js file. In a new Terminal session:

cd MagicMirror/config
nano config.js

This will allow you to edit your MM config file which holds the specific configuration options for your MM modules.

[bhepler]

@in_a_days

That is weird! If you are able to launch the mirror software with
DISPLAY=:0 npm start
PM2 should definitely work :(

Don’t forget, you told him to re-flash his SD card. That would have wiped the PM2 installation.

@PhilsterM9 You’re almost there. Your original mistake was that you told PM2 to run the mm.sh script twice (and then 3 times). Let’s make sure that you have PM2 installed, now that you’ve reflashed your SD card.

Run this: pm2 status. If you get the table, great. Let us know how many entries are in it. If you get the No command 'pm2' found, did you mean: line, go back to the tutorial and follow the steps again, starting with sudo npm install -g pm2.

If you do have more than one line in the table when you check PM2 status, you’ll want to remove all of the extraneous ones. pm2 delete 1 and possibly pm2 delete 2 if there are three entries. Get it to where there is only one entry in the list when you run pm2 status. Then save the pm2 state: pm2 save.

Okay, once you have saved the pm2 configuration, pm2 will make sure that your mirror is running. You don’t need to tell it start ever again. Hopefully. You should be able to reboot your Pi and then run pm2 status and see that the mm process is running all by itself.

[in_a_days]

@bhepler

Most definitely! I inferred from

“even though I did all the pm2 steps”

that @PhilsterM9 had gone through the pm2 install process after re-flash - but your directions should definitely help cross the finish line.

[PhilsterM9]

@in_a_days So I did what @bhepler had written and now works on boot! Now I can’t access the terminal to add some configurations? How do I get around this?