Update Electron failed - MagicMirror is broken on physical screen only

Pade2204

@sdetweil
I just saw a local image in module MMM-globe was not updating on the screen, but on webinterface it updated fine. So I just read that it could be the Electron browser failing. So I tried to update it. It failed, because it said that something was not compatible.

And from now on I just tried to install Electron again - and actually 6.1.7 is avaible still, but it didnt solve my problem now.

The Pi just shows the desktop and not MagicMirror when booted up. MagicMirror is just fine on webinterface.

sdetweil

@Pade2204 can you show the messages from where npm start is issued?

Pade2204

@sdetweil Im not that experienced in Linux, so Im not sure what you mean here.

sdetweil

@Pade2204 how do you start MagicMirror?

if it starts at boot, do you use the MagicMirror instructions to create a service or something else?
if you start it manually, what do you do

all things lead to the command
npm start
in the MagicMirror folder

that command starts MagicMirror and it outputs a bunch of messages when it’s running. including error messages from some modules

Pade2204

Thanks.

I had to reinstall MagicMirror.

sdetweil

@Pade2204 did u reinstall the same version?

Pade2204

@sdetweil I reinstalled using the guide inhere. So latest version I’m sure.

sdetweil

@Pade2204 i’m surprized that its running…

just to check

output of

grep version ~/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/package.json

casper1

The outdated Electron version is causing the broken screen. Update to ^23.0.0, run npm install, rebuild with npm run rebuild, and restart Magic Mirror with npm start to fix it.

sdetweil

@casper1 can you explain more??

what did you do? update node??