Run MM on Ubuntu 16 VM

[justjim1220]

@mykle1

so I have everything now installed in the root but still getting nowhere with getting the mirror to start up and run…:worried_face:

[justjim1220]

@mykle1

Still getting this…

doesn’t matter if i’m in Ubuntu 16.04 OR 18.04
and it doesn’t matter if I’m in home directory OR the root directory…

is there a different way to run MM other than ‘npm start’?

[AxLed]

@justjim1220
did you try to start the “Server only” mode an open a browser on Ubuntu with IP of your MM?
To start Server only do node serveronly in your MagicMirror directory.

Maybe this helps to find the problem.

AxLED

[A Former User]

@justjim1220
try this.

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

[justjim1220]

@axled

Thanks, that worked!!!
:winking_face: :winking_face: :smiling_face: :smiling_face: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

[reitrac]

Hello everyone,

3months later, I hope it’s not too late :)

@AxLed i’m trying to use “node serveronly” but have this error :
WARNING! Could not validate config file. Please correct syntax errors. Starting with default configuration.

I followed @Mykle1 tutorial to create default config.js but this not works.

Any idea ? (My internet connection works)

Thanks.

[A Former User]

@reitrac
Your config.js might have some misspell or wrong syntax.

[reitrac]

My config.js is by default :D
I just changed “en” by “fr”.

I’ll try to find config.js on Git and come back to you.

Thanks.

EDIT :

I downloaded the latest config.js from : https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/blob/master/config/config.js.sample
And not works :'(

[Mykle1]

@reitrac

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 *
 * For more information how you can configurate this file
 * See https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#configuration
 *
 */

var config = {
	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 24,
	units: "metric",

	modules: [
		{
			module: "alert",
		},
		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar"
		},
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left"
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "US Holidays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check-o ",
						url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third"
		},
		{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "New York",
				locationID: "",  //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/; unzip the gz file and find your city
				appid: "YOUR_OPENWEATHER_API_KEY"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				location: "New York",
				locationID: "5128581",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "YOUR_OPENWEATHER_API_KEY"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
	]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

[A Former User]

@reitrac
I can bet you have missed comma after language:"fr". 95% of syntax error was that thing in my case. :D