electron-rebuild and MagicMirror v2.18 (and more)

[bugsounet]

@wishmaster270 :

If it can help, it’s perfect ;)
I have do the same too for rebuild modules

but don’t forget to delete "electron-rebuild": "v.xxx", from for package.json file ;)
because this old package is not needed now

@bugsounet

[bugsounet]

@hedmik : i just share (one of) my own library ;)

[cyber152]

@bugsounet thank you very much, for weeks I am looking for a solution to finally be able to add an essential function to the mirror :thumbs_up:

[gonzonia]

@bugsounet THANK YOU! This saved me a lot of headaches. I went ahead and updated to 2.18 and got the exact error you reference in the exact same module. A quick search and I found your very helpful solution. Thank you for sharing.

[lhops]

I get an error when " ~/node_modules $ ~/.bin/MagicMirror-rebuild"
error=(an unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild)
unable to find electron’s version number of MagicMirror etc

[lhops]

@lhops
Can or has anyone written code for an new MMM-PIR-Sensor module that will work will the new version of MagicMirror. If not is that something that your can do? I wish I knew more about the code I would do it myself.

[bugsounet]

@lhops said in electron-rebuild and MagicMirror v2.18 (and more):

I get an error when " ~/node_modules $ ~/.bin/MagicMirror-rebuild"

execute ./node_modules/.bin/MagicMirror-rebuild INSIDE the module directory ;)

not inside other directory ;)
Note :

1. every module in MagicMirror is there:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules

2. After change again the directory to your wanted module,
   for MMM-PIR-Sensor module (for example):

cd MMM-PIR-Sensor

3. after install magicmirror-rebuild

npm i magicmirror-rebuild

4. execute MagicMirror-rebuild program

./node_modules/.bin/MagicMirror-rebuild

5. you will see MagicMirror Rebuild Complete

6. it’s done ;)

[lhops]

@bugsounet
This is the results of the instructions:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor $ npm i magicmirror-rebuild
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
npm ERR! path /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/package.json
npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected string in JSON at position 803 while parsing ‘{
npm ERR! JSON.parse “name”: "Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sen’
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse JSON data.
npm ERR! JSON.parse Note: package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2022-01-10T14_40_47_069Z-debug-0.log

I am sure you can look at this and see my problem.
Thank you for all your help!

[bugsounet]

@lhops said in electron-rebuild and MagicMirror v2.18 (and more):

npm ERR! JSON.parse “name”: "Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sen’

If you have modified the “package.json” file … and you do not respect the syntax.
here is the result ;)
(Info: it is not like this that we rename a module)

to correct your issue try this:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor
rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
git reset --hard HEAD
npm install magicmirror-rebuild --save
npm remove electron-rebuild
npm install

(Sometime, i’m very kind… So kind for me)

@bugsounet

[lhops]

@bugsounet
That did the trick. How can I thank you. It is working like it should!!

[bugsounet]

I have open this PR (Pull Request) for commit this change with MagicMirror-rebuild to @paviro to accept it (or not)

[susl]

@bugsounet I followed your instructions but the rebuilding step failed with the following message:

MagicMirror Building module: epoll, Completed: 0gyp: name ‘openssl_fips’ is not defined while evaluating condition ‘openssl_fips != “”’ in binding.gyp while trying to load binding.gyp
✖ MagicMirror Rebuild Failed

An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild
node-gyp failed to rebuild ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/epoll’.
Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1

Error: node-gyp failed to rebuild ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/epoll’.
Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1

at ModuleRebuilder.rebuildNodeGypModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/magicmirror-rebuild/build/module-rebuilder.js:193:19)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at async Rebuilder.rebuildModuleAt (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/magicmirror-rebuild/build/rebuild.js:180:9)
at async Rebuilder.rebuild (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/magicmirror-rebuild/build/rebuild.js:143:17)
at async /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/magicmirror-rebuild/build/cli.js:141:9

Do you know what the problem is? Thanks!

[bugsounet]

@susl :

• Recommended version of npm: v6.14.15
• Recommended version of node: v14.x.x or v16.x.x

to verify, try this in a terminal (or ssh):

node -v
npm -v

[susl]

@bugsounet
node version: v17.3.0
npm version: 8.3.0

So obviously not the correct version :-( Do you know how I can change the versions?

[sdetweil]

@susl you can use n to install or select different versions of node (and npm)
to install n
sudo npm install n -g
then to install or use a version of node
n 16

to switch

n

the select from the list

[susl]

@sdetweil
Thanks a lot. I works now!

[cowboysdude]

@bugsounet Thank you for this!! It works like a charm ;)

[selyjohns]

Wow, perfect ! Thank you so much !

[michael5r]

Thanks for doing this - much appreciated!

[bugsounet]

@michael5r with pleasure ;l