midori cant connect to localhost

ottobot

Got magicmirror to start on a pi zero following instrustions that I found on this forum. Now when midori starts I’m getting a connection refused on localhost:8080. I can ping localhost fine from terminal and I’ve added /120 in my whitelist.

d-sanchez

Did you figure out this error? I’m having the same problem

ottobot

Honestly, I didn’t. I spent a few days off and on trying to get things going, finally I reached out to someone on the forum that had a working image and used that. I have a few more zero’s floating around though and I’m planning on trying again from scratch this weekend.

bbdv

Hi Guy’s, I’m having the same issue here, stuck on midori telling me connection refused…

Im working on a pi zero w with jessie lite

RV

@bbdv @ottobot @d-sanchez i hope one of you, has found a solution for this problem?!

i have the same

bbdv

I have managed to get it working by adjusting the start up script in the etc/init.d/ directory:

Instead of:
cd ~/MagicMirror

I changed it to :
cd /home/pi/MagicMirror

Worked great for over 2 week… until I updated MagicMirror, the same error returned…
(Connection refused)

bbdv

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bbdv

Got it back to work by starting all over.

Here are my* notes/steps:
*)I have gathered all these steps from all the contributers on this site.

Start with a fresh Jessie lite image…

sudo apt-get update
sudo wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo apt-get install git
cd /home/pi/
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
cd MagicMirror
sudo npm install (This will take 30+ minutes)
sudo apt-get install midori
sudo apt-get install unclutter
sudo aptitude install xinit
sudo apt-get install matchbox
sudo nano /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          startMagicMirror.sh
# Short-Description: startMM
# Description:       starts MM
### END INIT INFO
cd /home/pi/MagicMirror
node serveronly &
sleep 20

sudo xinit /home/pi/startMidori.sh
sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh
sudo update-rc.d startMagicMirror.sh defaults 100
sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils
sudo nano /home/pi/startMidori.sh

#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s off # disable screen saver
xset s noblank # don’t blank the video device
matchbox-window-manager &
unclutter &
midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost:8080

sudo chmod a+x /home/pi/startMidori.sh
sudo reboot

janth

@bbdv did you use Jessie or Stretch for that?