Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Magic Mirror doesn't work after a boot
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I need some serious help. I’ve probably spent the last 12 hours messing with PM2 and the mm.sh script for a Magic Mirror to display google photos.
When I do a pm2 start mm.sh it works perfectly. It loads the pictures up and cycles through them. When I reboot the raspberry pi Magic Mirror will attempt to launch but it just sits at this infinite white screen and never loads the pictures to cycle through. If I ssh into the system and do another pm2 start mm.sh -f it works and if I do a pm2 restart mm.sh it works.
What am I missing here? No other start up method seems to get this thing to successfully display pictures after a reboot. Please help…
Here is the guide I’m trying to follow
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/configuration/autostart.html#using-pm2 -
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@eightbit because you’ve done a lot of pm2 commands and run, the log is large, so lets clear that
pm2 flush
then reboot
alt-spacebar, n
to minmize the white screen mm, or ssh inpm2 logs --lines=nnnn
nnnn is some number, default 15
another thing you can do is use my script for pm2 setup
see https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts
last script on the page is fixuppm2but first we need to clear the pm2 config
pm2 stop all
pm2 delete all
pm2 save -fthen run my script…
it uses the ~/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh -
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@eightbit no… if it all works then later yes
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@eightbit its only called ‘fix’ cause during my install script you can add pm2 support, or not… so its a separate script if u change your mind later
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@sdetweil Shoot. No luck! When I ran your script it loaded up and started perfectly and after the reboot it is hung on a white screen. In the logs it looks like it’s really trying to do something with the chromium browser but it just hangs and hangs. When it works on a pm2 start mm.sh (or using fixuppm2.sh) the log looks the same but then there are a couple lines after “starting chromium browser now”. I’ll post the log in another post.
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@eightbit I just forgot, did you remove the autostart setup u added in the services?
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/home/secretsanta/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log last 15 lines: /home/secretsanta/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-out.log last 15 lines: 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.23.049] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert. 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.23.234] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.23.248] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.46.958] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.46.963] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-GooglePhotos 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.46.988] [LOG] All module helpers loaded. 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.103] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 ... 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.496] [LOG] Server started ... 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.499] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.503] [LOG] Starting module helper: updatenotification 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.525] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-GooglePhotos 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.527] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started ... 0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.529] [LOG] 0|MagicMir | Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://localhost:8080 0|MagicMir | Starting chromium browser now, have patience, it takes a minute -
@sdetweil Yea I cleared out the systemd services I tried to enabled. They are disabled and stopped. I also tried an rc.local startup file to run the .sh file which never worked. I know that’s depreciated but desperate times and desperate measures lol.
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@eightbit what device is this… you are using my install script which launches
this is reserved for armv6 devices…
can u check the autostartdid you do this??? (answer should be no)
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/configuration/autostart.html#using-systemd-systemctl -
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@sdetweil Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
I did try to use systemd but it did not work so I disabled and deleted all the systemd attempts.
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secretsanta@raspberrypi:~ $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 921 265 94 6 561 594 Swap: 1861 1 1860 -
@eightbit can u show me the “start”: from package.json
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"start":"./run-start.sh $1", "start":"./run-start.sh $1", "server": "node ./serveronly", "install-mm": "npm install --no-audit --no-fund --no-update-notifier --only=prod --omit=dev", "install-mm:dev": "npm install --no-audit --no-fund --no-update-notifier", "install-vendor": "echo \"Installing vendor files ...\n\" && cd vendor && npm install --loglevel=error --no-audit --no-fund --no-update-notifier", "install-fonts": "echo \"Installing fonts ...\n\" && cd fonts && npm install --loglevel=error --no-audit --no-fund --no-update-notifier", "postinstall": "npm run install-vendor && npm run install-fonts && echo \"MagicMirror² installation finished successfully! \n\"", "test": "NODE_ENV=test jest -i --forceExit", "test:coverage": "NODE_ENV=test jest --coverage -i --verbose false --forceExit", "test:electron": "NODE_ENV=test jest --selectProjects electron -i --forceExit", "test:e2e": "NODE_ENV=test jest --selectProjects e2e -i --forceExit", "test:unit": "NODE_ENV=test jest --selectProjects unit", "test:prettier": "prettier . --check", "test:js": "eslint 'js/**/*.js' 'modules/default/**/*.js' 'clientonly/*.js' 'serveronly/*.js' 'translations/*.js' 'vendor/*.js' 'tests/**/*.js' 'config/*' --confi> "test:css": "stylelint 'css/main.css' 'fonts/*.css' 'modules/default/**/*.css' 'vendor/*.css' --config .stylelintrc.json", "test:calendar": "node ./modules/default/calendar/debug.js", "config:check": "node js/check_config.js", "lint:prettier": "prettier . --write", "lint:js": "eslint 'js/**/*.js' 'modules/default/**/*.js' 'clientonly/*.js' 'serveronly/*.js' 'translations/*.js' 'vendor/*.js' 'tests/**/*.js' 'config/*' --confi> "lint:css": "stylelint 'css/main.css' 'fonts/*.css' 'modules/default/**/*.css' 'vendor/*.css' --config .stylelintrc.json --fix", "lint:staged": "lint-staged", "prepare": "[ -f node_modules/.bin/husky ] && husky install || echo no husky installed." -
delete one of them and replace the other with
"start": "DISPLAY=\"${DISPLAY:=:0}\" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",also do uname -a
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@sdetweil said in Magic Mirror doesn't work after a boot:
“start”: “DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js”,
{ "name": "magicmirror", "version": "2.25.0", "description": "The open source modular smart mirror platform.", "main": "js/electron.js", "scripts": { "start": "DISPLAY=\"${DISPLAY:=:0}\" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js", }, "repository": { "type": "git", "url": "git+https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git" -
Linux raspberrypi 6.1.21-v7+ #1642 SMP Mon Apr 3 17:20:52 BST 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux
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@eightbit you didn’t need to delete all the rest of the scripts
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@eightbit ok, armv7 and memory >512… hm
can u send me the ~/install.log
I want to see why it picked the run-statrt approach…same userid at gmail
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