Thanks for all your help. I’ll let you know if all goes well.

my recommendation is to start with a fresh sd card flash of the appropriate os. boot, skip updates. open a terminal window or use ssh

and then use my script to to install MagicMirror and setup pm2

see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

I have never seen a tutorial document maintained, and things change constantly.

once MagicMirror is running and starting on boot, then you can go back to configuring MagicMirror

I assume the tutorial, if followed exactly, should work.
Either it’s not fool proof, or I missing an important step.

Everything I’ve done is on a new raspberry pi.

pm2 start mm.sh

No mirror software but I see this

I think it

pm2 delete row_number

(you could use name if the names were unique)

pm2 --help 

will tell you the command syntax

pm2 start mm.sh 

if you are in the folder w the mm.sh

pm2 start mm.sh
pm2 save

As stated in the tutorial?

pm2 stop all
pm2 flush

then execute mm.sh

cd ~
MagicMirror/mm.sh

Then I realized I have a space after DISPLAY =, and there is no space between the two in the tutorials.
So I fix that and tried running again, I see this:

But no mirror software on the screen…

is that where the file is?

does it have permission to execute?

ls -laF mm.sh

so,

chmod +x mm.sh

This was the most I could screen shot, this log was very long.

pm2 logs --lines=50

50 may need to be bigger… defaults to 15

there are two different outputs… the normal messages (stdout) and the error (stderr)

the files for the saved logs are in the .pm2/logs folder (note the . in front of pm2)

did you install MM under root?? the permissions thing is concerning…

And this was the one on git hub:
cd ~/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

I was using a . instead of ~
I switched it to ~ and tried again. Now I see this, the mirror software doesn’t load though.

and compare to the one we ship in
~/MagicMirror/installers, that I use when setting up pm2 in my install script…
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

so let’s try without pm2 and see what happens.

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start