NowPlayingOnSpotify authentication error

[MadeInMaine]

@sdetweil

I am not using a browser to run MagicMirror.
I run it through terminal and “npm start” to run it.

Not sure if that helps

[sdetweil]

@MadeInMaine when u do npm start , it starts the MagicMirror app, which displays thru a browser (electron by default)

the black background is electron …

on that screen, press ctrl-shift-i on the keyboard
and a second panel will open, the browser developers window
(just like on Windows, anything built on Firefox or Chrome)

[MadeInMaine]

@sdetweil

Looks like electron as it does not look like standard browser.

[sdetweil]

@MadeInMaine yes. it’s electron (what I said before).

[MadeInMaine]

@sdetweil

Any advice on how to get the authentication to work?

[sdetweil]

@MadeInMaine no, clearly something you are doing

[MadeInMaine]

@sdetweil

Do you know why it would say “site can’t be reached” when doing http://localhost:8888 ?

I tried to go to proxy settings, but couldn’t change anything

[sdetweil]

@MadeInMaine there are two choices

1. you are doing that on a browser on a machine different than where MagicMirror is installed

2. you didn’t start the auth app per the documentation, before you tried to connect to it, from a browser on the same system

[MadeInMaine]

@sdetweil

For #2, I’ll start over from scratch, maybe that will help.

For #1, i am using the browser that that opens from the status bar on the RaspberryPi, chromium.
Can i use the electron browser? If so, and if I should be using that, where do I find it on the rapsberryPi?

Thank you again

[sdetweil]

@MadeInMaine you don’t need to try to use electron.

when you start the auth app you should see

Listening on 8888