MagicMirror Failing on Raspberry Pi Zero W Rev 1.1

[davidgagne]

@sdetweil I was wrong. It’s not working fine.

It was working fine. Then I rebooted to make sure everything was fine. Comes back up with no problem.

Then I ssh-ed to it, installed a module, ran npm install inside the new module’s directory, execute pm2 start MagicMirror, and now MM crashes again looking for electron.

So frustrating.

[davidgagne]

@sdetweil Can I run sudo npm i -g npm@10 to upgrade to v10?

Also: Can you help with getting my forum account upgraded so I don’t have all my posts queued for approval?

[sdetweil]

@davidgagne said in MagicMirror Failing on Raspberry Pi Zero W Rev 1.1:

pm2 start MagicMirror, and now MM crashes again looking for electron.

if you do

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start 

what happens?

[davidgagne]

@sdetweil Here is the output from npm start called from within MM folder:

> magicmirror@2.28.0 start /home/dvg/MagicMirror
> ./run-start.sh $1

[2024-08-01 14:22:15.896] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.28.0
[2024-08-01 14:22:17.801] [LOG] Loading config ...
[2024-08-01 14:22:17.876] [LOG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[2024-08-01 14:22:37.345] [LOG] Loading module helpers ...
[2024-08-01 14:22:37.587] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
[2024-08-01 14:22:39.311] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
[2024-08-01 14:22:39.627] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[2024-08-01 14:22:39.840] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
[2024-08-01 14:22:40.776] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
[2024-08-01 14:22:40.933] [LOG] Module helper loaded: mmm-systemtemperature
[2024-08-01 14:22:41.119] [LOG] No helper found for module: compliments.
[2024-08-01 14:22:41.252] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[2024-08-01 14:22:41.370] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[2024-08-01 14:22:41.440] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[2024-08-01 14:22:41.542] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[2024-08-01 14:22:43.350] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 ...
[2024-08-01 14:22:44.452] [WARN]  You're using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs 
[2024-08-01 14:22:46.725] [LOG] Server started ...
[2024-08-01 14:22:46.942] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[2024-08-01 14:22:47.186] [LOG] Starting module helper: updatenotification
[2024-08-01 14:22:47.362] [LOG] Connecting socket for: mmm-systemtemperature
[2024-08-01 14:22:47.504] [LOG] Starting node helper: mmm-systemtemperature
[2024-08-01 14:22:47.554] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started ...
[2024-08-01 14:22:47.633] [INFO]
>>> Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://0.0.0.0:8080 <<<
Starting chromium browser now, have patience, it takes a minute
Chromium_browser not installed
./run-start.sh: line 79: 11125 Killed                  node serveronly

[sdetweil]

@davidgagne said in MagicMirror Failing on Raspberry Pi Zero W Rev 1.1:

Can you help with getting my forum account upgraded so I don’t have all my posts queued for approval?

the config I requested for the forum a couple years ago is a reputation of 2, and then posts will not be moderated.
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/104688

this keeps out all the spam, and other nasty stuff…

I review every post that goes thru moderation queue. so I am the bottleneck…

to improve your rep, takes contributing something that other users like enough to vote up your post…

I cannot override that.

[sdetweil]

@davidgagne said in MagicMirror Failing on Raspberry Pi Zero W Rev 1.1:

Starting chromium browser now, have patience, it takes a minute
Chromium_browser not installed

so you have to install, firefox, midiori, or surf
see my scripts doc

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts?tab=readme-ov-file#switch-to-the-midori-or-firefox-or-surf-browser

[davidgagne]

@sdetweil Right. I did all that – uninstalled chromium, installed Firefox, and edited installers/mm.sh – as part of my installation process. I’m not sure why it’s still looking for chromium; I assume it’s hard coded somewhere in the MM startup script.

[sdetweil]

@davidgagne not hard coded…

    # if not set
    if [ "$external_browser." == "." ]; then
        # start chromium
        echo "Starting chromium browser now, have patience, it takes a minute"

it IS case sensitive and ALSO needs the export
unlike Windows in linux environment variables are not inherited by default…

show me the mm.sh

[davidgagne]

@sdetweil Here’s the entire mm.sh file:

#!/bin/bash
# This file is still here to keep PM2 working on older installations.
cd ~/MagicMirror
export external_browser=firefox
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

[sdetweil]

@davidgagne hm… no idea really
you can test the script with

cd ~/MagicMirror
installers/mm.sh

and

cd ~/MagicMirror
export external_browser=firefox
npm start 

never seen it fail tho.