MMM-ImagesPhotos

starz22

Hey everyone! I’m having a bit of trouble with the MMM-ImagesPhotos module. I keep getting this error:

No MagicMirror/modules/MMM-ImagesPhotos/MMM-ImagesPhotos.js found for module: MMM-ImagesPhotos.

and then

No helper found for module: MMM-ImagesPhotos.

However, I’ve made sure that the js file is inside that module and even installed and uninstalled it a few times. It’s still not working - the rest of my modules are loading but this one isn’t :(

I just started working on my first MagicMirror yesterday so would really appreciate some help.

Thanks everyone!

sdetweil

@starz22 you did the git clone
while the current directory was
~/MagicMirror/modules
right?

the module folder name MUST MATCH the module name exactly, case matters

starz22

@sdetweil Yep! I’m sure I did the git clone correctly, and I just removed and redid everything to make sure. It’s still not working and showing the same error.

sdetweil

@starz22 can you go to the MagicMirror/modules folder
and do

ls -laF

and show the results

starz22

@sdetweil Yep!

total 36
drwxr-xr-x 9 starz starz 4096 Jul 25 19:41 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 starz starz 4096 Jul 25 10:20 …/
drwxr-xr-x 10 starz starz 4096 Jul 24 13:37 default/
drwxr-xr-x 6 starz starz 4096 Jul 25 19:41 MMM-ImagesPhotos/
drwxr-xr-x 6 starz starz 4096 Jul 24 23:05 MMM-ModuleScheduler/
drwxr-xr-x 5 starz starz 4096 Jul 24 21:19 MMM-nyc-transit/
drwxr-xr-x 11 starz starz 4096 Jul 24 20:20 MMM-OnSpotify/
drwxr-xr-x 10 starz starz 4096 Jul 24 22:00 MMM-Remote-Control/
drwxr-xr-x 4 starz starz 4096 Jul 24 23:13 MMM-WeatherEffects/

sdetweil

@starz22 weird

can you post the config for this module

starz22

@sdetweil

I used the sample config from the readme, and then when that didn’t work, just various different ones that changed like the opacity and fill. However, I think the problem might be coming from here since I’m getting this error every time I run it with npm -

[2025-07-26 08:56:04.585] [WARN] No /home/starz/MagicMirror/modules/MMM‑ImagesPhotos/MMM‑ImagesPhotos.js found for module: MMM‑ImagesPhotos.

But of course, there is a JS file inside the module - it just seems like its not being read. It’s pretty confounding because all of my other modules work perfectly fine.

sdetweil

@starz22 yeh, confusing

ls -laF

inside the MMM-ImagesPhotos folder
who is logged on now, vs when you did the git clone?

never use sudo right?

starz22

@sdetweil

Here’s the output for the ls -laF inside the module:

total 268
drwxr-xr-x  6 starz starz   4096 Jul 26 01:17 ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 starz starz   4096 Jul 26 01:01 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz    596 Jul 25 19:41 CHANGELOG.md
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz   1160 Jul 25 19:41 .eslintrc.json
drwxr-xr-x  8 starz starz   4096 Jul 26 08:56 .git/
drwxr-xr-x  2 starz starz   4096 Jul 25 19:41 .github/
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz     53 Jul 25 19:41 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz   1094 Jul 25 19:41 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz     54 Jul 25 19:41 .markdownlint.json
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz    398 Jul 25 19:41 MMM-ImagesPhotos.css
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz  10214 Jul 26 01:17 MMM-ImagesPhotos.js
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz   4629 Jul 25 19:41 node_helper.js
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz   1185 Jul 25 19:41 package.json
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz 189128 Jul 25 19:41 package-lock.json
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz   2833 Jul 25 19:41 README.md
-rw-r--r--  1 starz starz    176 Jul 25 19:41 .stylelintrc.json
drwxr-xr-x  2 starz starz   4096 Jul 25 19:41 translations/
drwxr-xr-x  2 starz starz   4096 Jul 26 00:41 uploads/

Same person is logged in now - I’m the only person using this raspberry pi. And I never used sudo - I followed the instructions in the readme.

starz22

@sdetweil Alright so after 2 days of trying to debug this, I just used a different slideshow module (MMM-ImageSlideshow) and somehow that worked for me. Thank you for all of your help @sdetweil!!