Raspberry Pi Zero W for Magic Mirror

sdetweil

@capedbuffethero
the export is used on the MagicMirror system side. it is paired with the
node server execution, which launches MagicMirror without a ui.
then when the server is running, run-start.sh launches a browser to connect to the server

the export has nothing to do with vnc,
it is just used to tell run-start.sh which browser to launch. (on linux, env variables are NOT passed to children processes by default. you have to use the export keyword to enable it, for each env var you want to pass)

if you set the MagicMirror config.js.js to

address:"0.0.0.0",
ipWhitelist:[],

then you can use a browser on your phone, Windows, Linux, or Mac system to view MagicMirror directly without vnc

the killed message is because you restarted MagicMirror, and run-start.sh found the server instance running already. so it must be stopped and restarted in case you changed the config

funkdafied

Hello all giving MM a try again on a Rpi zero and have been trying to run the script in this thread but keeping getting the following message

Am I missing something to by pass the Xorg check?

OS
achild@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)”
NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“12”
VERSION=“12 (bookworm)”
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL=“http://www.raspbian.org/”
SUPPORT_URL=“http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums”

sdetweil

@funkdafied I have just pushed a fix for that… (was a test for text mode or graphical mode)
(and I see I have to expand the test for the Bookworm compositor too,edit: just fixed that too)

but it won’t help in your situation…

you cannot run MagicMirror on bookworm successfully on a pi0-w, armv6l
takes too much memory

you need to use the legacy 32 bit image (bullseye)

funkdafied

@sdetweil thank you that worked to a point please have a look at the below with the errors I getting:

sdetweil

@funkdafied I cannot recreate this…

try this to increase the timeout


You can extend timeout with those two commands:

npm config set fetch-retry-maxtimeout 6000000
npm config set fetch-retry-mintimeout 1000000
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Source: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v9/using-npm/config#fetch-retry-maxtimeout

funkdafied

@sdetweil Thank you that did the trick. Only issue I see to be running into at the moment is Midori telling me it can’t find the page it is looking for.

sdetweil

@funkdafied ok,

when you run on a device that doesn’t have electron support, it doesn’t get installed via MM as expected…

then my install script changes the startup to use my run-start.sh script

which launches MagicMirror in server mode
and waits for the ready message

>>>   Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://0.0.0.0:8080   <<<

and then launches midori like this (with whatever the port number is in the message)

midori http://localhost:8080 -e Fullscreen -e Navigationbar

just for grins can you do

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start server

to see if that message appears

sdetweil

@funkdafied I think we solved this on discord