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Installer scripts on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

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    sdetweil @kribbitykrab
    last edited by 5 days ago

    @kribbitykrab pi 0w is a tough env now.

    i think the next challenge is lack of the electron browser on armv6l processors

    in my installer script when run on armv6l, i setup server mode and launch a browser over it.

    you can run the setup_browser_over_server script to do that outside install

    see the scripts repo readme for the browsers supported and how to inform the startup script which to use

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      kribbitykrab @sdetweil
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      @sdetweil I executed the following commands one after the other according to the readme:

      export external_browser=midori
      DISPLAY=:0 npm start

      This gives me the following readout:


      magicmirror@2.30.0 start
      npm run start:x11

      magic mirror@2.30.0 start:x11
      DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

      sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found


      I had though that Midori supported electron, and I am (barely) able to get Midori to boot from the desktop environment. Advice?

      Thanks!

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        sdetweil @kribbitykrab
        last edited by sdetweil 4 days ago 4 days ago

        @kribbitykrab if you ran the setup _over_server
        it should have changed the start script in
        package.json to

        "start":"./run-start.sh",
        

        can you confirm that

        looks like i had a bug in the script, run it again

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          kribbitykrab @sdetweil
          last edited by 4 days ago

          @sdetweil Ah! I had thought I had to do those steps in the other order so I hadn’t ran the setup_over_server script yet–I have ran it now.

          The readout after DISPLAY=:0 npm start is not much more promising. Can’t quite share a screenshot from here, but it has gotten to the point where it says “Ready to go! Please point your browser to” and it’s trying to start Midori!

          Now the waiting game.

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            sdetweil @kribbitykrab
            last edited by 4 days ago

            @kribbitykrab did you install midori?
            can you launch midori from the vommandline

            Sam

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              kribbitykrab @sdetweil
              last edited by 4 days ago

              @sdetweil Weird sequence of events. Midori did end up booting, but then it just stayed on a blank white page without loading anything else. I let it sit for a couple hours just in case it was being slow, but no dice. I alt-tabbed back to the terminal to see if I had any error logs or something. I didn’t see anything, so I alt-tabbed back, and voila! I have a display!

              I didn’t change the config.js file, so I assume this is the default setup. I see date, time, holidays in the top left. In the center I see some compliments and some news headlines. In the top right I see the weather!

              I guess now I can try to fiddle around to get the calendar modules setup how I’d like.

              Would ideally like this to boot on launch of the pi 0w, any advice there would also be handy.

              From the default timing display, it appears it’s refreshing anywhere from every second to every ~10seconds.

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                sdetweil @kribbitykrab
                last edited by sdetweil 3 days ago 4 days ago

                @kribbitykrab if you ran the fixuppm2 script it would have setup MagicMirror to start on boot
                I made separate scripts for the extrat steps used in the installer in case one needed to do it manually, or changed their mind (fox example, didn’t want pm2 at install, but does now)

                the modules update independently

                Sam

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