Magic mirror is not showing up

[CoopDog1712]

when i try to start the magic mirror using pm2 start mm.sh, it says “Starting /home/pi/mm.sh in fork_mode (1 instance)”
and then it says
“Done”
and then table that this looks like this shows up
id │ name │ mode │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ memory │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0 │ mm │ fork │ 0 │ online │ 0% │ 2.4mb

then nothing happens. I have watched countless videos about the whole prossess and i do everything that they do, but after the enter pm2 start mm.sh the table shows up and then the magic mirror page shows up. i dont know what to do

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 ok, best thing is to use my script to set it up…
see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts
last script on the page

but in the meantime

pm2 stop all

pm2 logs --lines=50

to see what is going on

does executing mm.sh work by itself?

pm2 is really picky… if there is a batch (bash) script, then it MUST be named mm.sh just mm won’t work.

then pm2 delete 0
pm2 save -f
then run my fixuppm2.sh script

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil thank you so much for replying I really appreciate your help.

On the table that shows up, I see that one of the names is just mm, how would I change it to mm.sh. Also when I run your script all it does is create a new Id on the table, called MagicMirror and it dosent seem to do anything

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil!

https://share.icloud.com/photos/09aR5ulFMM0L4v-vHL3NDBRNA

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 you can’t change and entry, but you can delete it

pm2 delete 0 or pm2 delete mm

pm2 logs --lines=50 might tell us what us going on

pm2 is a command
pm2 --help will show you all the things you can do

ps, you can attach pics here… the third icon from the right above the editor here

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 i couldnt see much of that image

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil

after typing in pm2 logs --lines=50, all that is coming up is a repeating of these couple lines

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 yes, sometimes, the install messes up

pm2 stop all
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@17.2.0

to test

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start

if all looks good
ctrl-c to stop
then

pm2 start MagicMirror

I should have asked, what pi is this on ? not pi 0 w, right?

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil no its a pi 4

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil so it works now, and after i enter pm2 start MagicMirror, it loads the software for the magic mirror, the only issue is that their is nothing only a blank screen, no time, weather, nothing. all that comes up is a blank screen. any suggestions?

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 have u added modules?

if so see
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/15778/fix-for-black-screen-in-2-16-and-later

and
pm2 logs --lines=50
will show you what is happening

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil i did what you said and this is what came up.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/default/clock $ npm init -y
Wrote to /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/clock/package.json:

{
“name”: “clock”,
“version”: “1.0.0”,
“description”: “The clock module is one of the default modules of the MagicMirror². This module displays the current date and time. The information will be updated realtime.”,
“main”: “clock.js”,
“scripts”: {
“test”: “echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1”
},
“keywords”: [],
“author”: “”,
“license”: “ISC”
}

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/default/clock $ npm install ???
npm ERR! code EINVALIDTAGNAME
npm ERR! Invalid tag name “???”: Tags may not have any characters that encodeURIComponent encodes.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2022-04-24T14_06_36_382Z-debug-0.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/default/clock $ pm2 start MagicMirror
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 4 ])
[PM2] MagicMirror ✓
[PM2] Process successfully started

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 no… not in clock module… we ship that

what was the black screen failure message from the console output?

you read the messages and get the name of the missing library, and replace the ??? with that name

the reason YOU have to read the messages is because there are multiple libraries missing…
you only need to fix the ones that impact the modules you installed

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil i dont think i saw one. i never installed any modulles, even the ones that should come with it are not showing up

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 ok, still show the messages where u start mm

either via
npm start
or
pm2

if pm2., then
pm2 logs --lines=50

will show the console output

what pi is this?

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil pi 4

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 ah yes, fun times…

do

pm2 stop all 
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@17.2.0
npm start 

mm should come up

minimize mm (alt-spacebar, n)

ctrl-c to stop running instance

then

pm2 status

this will show the status or pm2 managed apps.

┌────┬────────────────────┬──────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name               │ mode     │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ memory   │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0  │ MagicMirror        │ fork     │ 0    │ online    │ 0%       │ 2.7mb    │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

use the name or the row number

pm2 start xxx

xxx is the name or the row number
for example

pm2 start 0 

[CoopDog1712]

@sdetweil after i installed electron@17.2.0 then started it, this came up

then i did start pm2 start 4, and it started, but was still a blank screen

[sdetweil]

@CoopDog1712 says something is still running…

you didn’t do pm2 stop all

after doing test

ps -ef | grep -i magicmirror

should return nothing