https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore

it saves links to all the modules and restores from the links

Thank you again.
MM2 is up and running.

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore

it saves links to all the modules and restores from the links

Thank you for your time.
Manfred

did you have MM running before? what would you lose starting over?

IF you start over,
new flash
boot, skip updates,
reboot turn on ssh

then run my install script… it will update system, install node, then mm…

in an earlier installation I could move the mouse and the menubar got visible or I could press F11 and the menubar got visible. But now nothing works.
So should I reinstall raspian and start from the beginning or is there a work a round?

Ok this does not work.

what does not work?

have pi 0w, 02w, 3, 4,5 odroid, jetson nano, chromebox, chromebook,
and multiple virtual machines under vmware

NEVER seen npm run start say successful but not see it on screen…

also, on the screen if u can,
ctrl-c to stop the in ssh version
on screen
cd ~/Magicmirror
npm start

do you have keyboard to pi system desktop?

if so, ctrl-alt-t to open a terminal window and do

echo $DISPLAY

I updated to raspianOS bookworm first.
Manfred

The Display is connected directly via the HDMI Port of the pi . All equipment is right at arm distance, because I’m setting it up first before staching it behind the actual mirror.
But I am on the pi via ssh so that later I can do updates and probably adding new modules .

Manfred

npm start

> magicmirror@2.26.0 start
> DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

[06.01.2024 15:56.41.020] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.26.0
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.030] [LOG]   Loading config ...
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.035] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.042] [LOG]   Loading module helpers ...
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.044] [LOG]   No helper found for module: alert.
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.095] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.097] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.098] [LOG]   No helper found for module: clock.
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.376] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.378] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: calendar
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.380] [LOG]   No helper found for module: compliments.
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.381] [LOG]   No helper found for module: weather.
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.580] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.581] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.581] [LOG]   All module helpers loaded.
[06.01.2024 15:56.41.597] [LOG]   Starting server on port 8080 ... 
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.098] [LOG]   Server started ...
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.099] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.101] [LOG]   Starting module helper: updatenotification
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.102] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: calendar
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.103] [LOG]   Starting node helper for: calendar
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.104] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.105] [LOG]   Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.106] [LOG]   Sockets connected & modules started ...
[06.01.2024 15:56.42.132] [LOG]   Launching application.
[06.01.2024 15:56.45.490] [LOG]   Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://ics.calendarlabs.com/76/mm3137/US_Holidays.ics - Interval: 604800000
[06.01.2024 15:56.45.911] [LOG]   Create new newsfetcher for url: https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml - Interval: 300000
[06.01.2024 15:56.45.924] [INFO]  updatenotification: Updater Class Loaded!
[06.01.2024 15:56.45.926] [INFO]  updatenotification: Checking PM2 using...
[06.01.2024 15:56.45.931] [INFO]  Checking git for module: MagicMirror
[06.01.2024 15:56.47.527] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 12 events from https://ics.calendarlabs.com/76/mm3137/US_Holidays.ics.
[06.01.2024 15:56.47.822] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 29 items.
[06.01.2024 15:56.48.421] [INFO]  updatenotification: You are not using pm2

on the MM system screen in a terminal window
over ssh
over vnc
???

lets try this, without pm2 involved

pm2 stop all
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start 

But no, MagicMirror does not appear.
pm2 status looks like that now:

~/MagicMirror $ pm2 status
┌─────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id  │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
├─────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0   │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.26.0  │ fork    │ 4369     │ 6m     │ 0    │ online    │ 0%       │ 2.8mb    │ pi       │ disabled │

if so, you can delete the mm definition

pm2  delete mm
pm2 save

watching
the system maybe doesn’t that support… in my json file I request it

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     │ 2.26.0  │ fork    │ 4369     │ 0s     │ 0    │ online    │ 0%       │ 2.8mb    │ pi       │ disabled │
│ 1   │ mm             │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 0        │ 0      │ 1    │ stopped   │ 0%       │ 0b       │ pi       │ disabled │

I wonder why “watching” is disabled.

Manfred

that error means some other app is using port 8080.

mm is not the name of my pm2 mm task, so it sounds like you tried the manual way and it is running too

pm2 status

will show the managed apps

pm2 stop all
pm2 start MagicMirror