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      sdetweil @davidgagne
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      @davidgagne said in Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for Magic Mirror:

      I’ll email install.log to you as soon as I can figure out how to … find and copy the install log.

      you should install one of the windows ssh clients tools. Winscp or Bitvise ssh clients.
      they provide the typical ssh terminal AND also a windows file manager view of the remote system.
      so you can double click to edit on windows and automatically save the file back.

      bitvise also provides drag and drop file copy support to/from the remote system… for logs and credential files

      I use notepad++ or visual studio code to edit on windows.

      such a time saver!!

      Sam

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        davidgagne @sdetweil
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        @sdetweil I am not going to bother sending you the install log because it worked!

        It took a long time to launch, but now I can see MagicMirror running when I VNC into the Pi.

        After running your fixuppm2 script I executed pm2 start MagicMirror and got this:

        [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
        [PM2] [MagicMirror](0) ✓
        [PM2] Process successfully started
        ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
        │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
        ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
        │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 28553    │ 0s     │ 2    │ online    │ 0%       │ 2.5mb    │ dvg      │ disabled │
        └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
        

        Now when I VNC into the Pi I see it running! So far the date and time is the only thing correctly displaying, but at least now MagicMirror is running. Thank you!

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          sdetweil @davidgagne
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          @davidgagne I am interested in the log to see why the inline pm2 setup failed.

          yes, pi0w is not fast.

          the default calendar and weather take configuration before they produce output.

          Sam

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            sdetweil @davidgagne
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            @davidgagne you can also adjust the MagicMirror config so you can open your windows browser to see it too.

            Sam

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              davidgagne @sdetweil
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              @sdetweil I’m an Apple user. I am sure there’s something similar, though. Thanks.

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                davidgagne @sdetweil
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                @sdetweil It looks like I spoke too soon. After a reboot, I cannot seem to get any output from MagicMirror.
                I rebooted and then called pm2 start MagicMirror from within the MagicMirror directory, and it seems to execute just fine. But … nothing happens. It doesn’t actually start the app, as far as I can tell. Even though the output seems the same:

                [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
                [PM2] [MagicMirror](0) ✓
                [PM2] Process successfully started
                ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
                │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
                ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
                │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 4592     │ 1s     │ 148  │ online    │ 0%       │ 27.4mb   │ dvg      │ disabled │
                └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
                

                Any ideas?

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                  sdetweil @davidgagne
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                  @davidgagne pm2 logs --lines=75

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                    sdetweil @davidgagne
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                    @davidgagne that circle with the arrow heading column says times restarted. 148 is a problem

                    Sam

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                      davidgagne @sdetweil
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                      @sdetweil I emailed you the output from that. I’m guessing Error: Cannot find module 'electron' is bad?

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                        davidgagne @sdetweil
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                        @sdetweil It’s frustrating because I swear it was working before I rebooted.

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                          davidgagne @sdetweil
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                          @sdetweil If you thought 148 restarts was bad … This is what I see now:

                          pm2 start MagicMirror
                          [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
                          [PM2] [MagicMirror](0) ✓
                          [PM2] Process successfully started
                          ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
                          │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
                          ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
                          │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 14132    │ 0s     │ 659  │ online    │ 0%       │ 20.8mb   │ dvg      │ disabled │
                          └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
                          
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                            sdetweil @davidgagne
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                            @davidgagne got it. Just back from my walk… will examine…

                            Sam

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                              davidgagne @sdetweil
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                              @sdetweil I followed your tutorial on adding the Jeopardy module (just to see what would happen) and it worked fine. The last step is npm start and when I did that I got this:

                              > magicmirror@2.27.0 start
                              > ./run-start.sh $1
                              
                              [2024-05-29 10:30:09.649] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.27.0
                              [2024-05-29 10:30:10.200] [LOG] Loading config ...
                              [2024-05-29 10:30:10.267] [LOG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
                              [2024-05-29 10:30:19.159] [LOG] Loading module helpers ...
                              [2024-05-29 10:30:19.394] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
                              [2024-05-29 10:30:53.041] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
                              [2024-05-29 10:30:53.066] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
                              [2024-05-29 10:30:53.220] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
                              [2024-05-29 10:31:18.754] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
                              [2024-05-29 10:31:18.854] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar
                              [2024-05-29 10:31:19.537] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception... 
                              [2024-05-29 10:31:20.316] [ERROR] Error: Cannot find module 'request'
                              Require stack:
                              - /home/dvg/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-JEOPARDY/node_helper.js
                              - /home/dvg/MagicMirror/js/app.js
                              - /home/dvg/MagicMirror/serveronly/index.js
                                  at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1048:15)
                                  at Module._resolveFilename (/home/dvg/MagicMirror/node_modules/module-alias/index.js:49:29)
                                  at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:901:27)
                                  at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1115:19)
                                  at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:130:18)
                                  at Object.<anonymous> (/home/dvg/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-JEOPARDY/node_helper.js:8:17)
                                  at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1241:14)
                                  at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1295:10)
                                  at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1091:32)
                                  at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:938:12)
                                  at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1115:19)
                                  at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:130:18)
                                  at loadModule (/home/dvg/MagicMirror/js/app.js:183:19)
                                  at loadModules (/home/dvg/MagicMirror/js/app.js:213:10)
                                  at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
                                  at async App.start (/home/dvg/MagicMirror/js/app.js:261:3) {
                                code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
                                requireStack: [
                                  '/home/dvg/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-JEOPARDY/node_helper.js',
                                  '/home/dvg/MagicMirror/js/app.js',
                                  '/home/dvg/MagicMirror/serveronly/index.js'
                                ]
                              } 
                              [2024-05-29 10:31:20.470] [ERROR] MagicMirror² will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection? 
                              [2024-05-29 10:31:20.593] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror/issues 
                              [2024-05-29 10:34:40.779] [INFO] System information:
                              ### SYSTEM: manufacturer: Raspberry Pi Foundation; model: Raspberry Pi Zero W Rev 1.1; raspberry: [object Object]; virtual: false
                              ### OS: platform: linux; distro: Raspbian GNU/Linux; release: 11; arch: arm; kernel: 6.1.21+
                              ### VERSIONS: electron: undefined; used node: 20.8.0; installed node: 20.8.0; npm: 10.1.0; pm2: 5.4.0
                              ### OTHER: timeZone: America/New_York; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined
                              Starting chromium browser now, have patience, it takes a minute
                              Chromium_browser not installed
                              

                              FYI: There is definitely an internet connection, so we can rule that out. Otherwise I have no idea.

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                                sdetweil @davidgagne
                                last edited by sdetweil

                                @davidgagne yep,

                                not my tutorial just one I reference

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

                                Sam

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                                  davidgagne @sdetweil
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                                  @sdetweil Hmmm. Okay. I tried that for the ‘alert’ module but it didn’t seem to have any impact:

                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror $ cd modules/
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules $ ls
                                  default  MMM-JEOPARDY
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules $ cd default/
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules/default $ ls
                                  alert  calendar  clock  compliments  defaultmodules.js  helloworld  newsfeed  updatenotification  utils.js  weather
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules/default $ cd alert
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules/default/alert $ ls package.json
                                  ls: cannot access 'package.json': No such file or directory
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules/default/alert $ npm init -y
                                  Wrote to /home/dvg/MagicMirror/modules/default/alert/package.json:
                                  
                                  {
                                    "name": "alert",
                                    "version": "1.0.0",
                                    "description": "The alert module is one of the default modules of the MagicMirror². This module displays notifications from other modules.",
                                    "main": "alert.js",
                                    "scripts": {
                                      "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
                                    },
                                    "keywords": [],
                                    "author": "",
                                    "license": "ISC"
                                  }
                                  
                                  
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules/default/alert $ cd ..
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules/default $ cd ..
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror/modules $ cd ..
                                  dvg@hyperspace:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 start MagicMirror
                                  [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
                                  [PM2] [MagicMirror](0) ✓
                                  [PM2] Process successfully started
                                  ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
                                  │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
                                  ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
                                  │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 16303    │ 0s     │ 744  │ online    │ 0%       │ 18.5mb   │ dvg      │ disabled │
                                  └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
                                  

                                  Same result; just a bunch more restarts and nothing appearing. (The Pi desktop is there, though.)

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                                    sdetweil @davidgagne
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                                    @davidgagne why alert? it’s the mmm-jeopady module that is missing a library

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                                      sdetweil @davidgagne
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                                      @davidgagne said in Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for Magic Mirror:

                                      async App.start (/home/dvg/MagicMirror/js/app.js:261:3) {
                                      code: ‘MODULE_NOT_FOUND’,
                                      requireStack: [
                                      ‘/home/dvg/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-JEOPARDY/node_helper.js’,

                                      Sam

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                                        davidgagne @sdetweil
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                                        @sdetweil So, because I am relentless, I rebooted to see if that would help. It didn’t, but now it looks like I have a different problem altogether:

                                        cd MagicMirror/
                                        pm2 start MagicMirror
                                        [PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/dvg/.pm2
                                        [PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
                                        [PM2][ERROR] Script not found: /home/dvg/MagicMirror/MagicMirror
                                        
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                                          sdetweil @davidgagne
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                                          @davidgagne pm2 status

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                                            davidgagne @sdetweil
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                                            @sdetweil Oh. I thought the alert module was also indicating it was missing. Okay, I’ve tried npm init -y inside the MMM-Jeopardy dir, too, now.

                                            pm2 status gives me:

                                            ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
                                            │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
                                            ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
                                            │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 1865     │ 11s    │ 28   │ online    │ 21.4%    │ 38.6mb   │ dvg      │ disabled │
                                            └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
                                            

                                            And now a subsequent pm2 start MagicMirror gives me:

                                            [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
                                            [PM2] [MagicMirror](0) ✓
                                            [PM2] Process successfully started
                                            ┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
                                            │ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
                                            ├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
                                            │ 0  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.27.0  │ fork    │ 1986     │ 0s     │ 34   │ online    │ 0%       │ 22.6mb   │ dvg      │ disabled │
                                            └────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
                                            

                                            But there’s still nothing displaying (aside from the generic Pi OS desktop, I mean).

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