Total Noob - Successful Install on a Pi 3 B - How do I open it?

orangeclover1

Hello,

I just started fresh with a 32 GB SD on a raspberry pi 3 running raspian.

I used the install code provided on the main site - and everything ran through successfully without error.

My question (which may be extremely dumb) is now what? Most sites I visit say to just open your browser (Chromium) and to go to localhost (or localhost/MagicMirror). I’ve tried both and I get the sad page of “This site can’t be reached”

I tried rebooting just in case I missed something or something was weird. I changed the config file to [] for all ipaddresses in the whitelist.

I read a few forums which mentioned typing out the specifc ip - which I did using ifconfig as a lookup but still no avail with that (nor with adding :8000) on the end of it.

Am i missing something completely? Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

Thank you for any and all help to someone trying to get into the hobby of raspberry pis.

Mykle1

@orangeclover1

Open a terminal
cd MagicMirror (enter)
npm start (enter)

pi@Pi3:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

Mykle1

@orangeclover1 said in Total Noob - Successful Install on a Pi 3 B - How do I open it?:

:8000

The port is :8080

orangeclover1

Thank you!!! I just ran the npm start - and it looks like …something… happened? I now have a large blank empty black screen (mouse still usable and I can get to task manager) so … maybe its trying to work?

Mykle1

@orangeclover1

Hiding of the mouse was part of the install directions but a black screen with no message “Create a config?”

orangeclover1

Another mini update - its now accessible on other computers on my network (going to localhost:8080) just still sitting with a black screen on my pi

Mykle1

@Mykle1
Yes, it would, if the mirror is black, then going to it using a browser will only see black as well

Mykle1

@orangeclover1

can you get to the terminal and post any errors here. Copy them and paste them in here

orangeclover1

Yep I have a mouse and… nothing else. I dont have a create a config message - just a blank black screen and full mouse clickability? just checked the terminal thanks to task manager and it looks like there arent any errors

Mykle1

@orangeclover1 said in Total Noob - Successful Install on a Pi 3 B - How do I open it?:

looks like there arent any errors

Scroll back to the info in the terminal till you see the npm start command you made to run the mirror. Copy everything after that and paste here

Mykle1

@orangeclover1

Put a tick before you paste it and at the end of the paste. The tick is your TILDE key (without shift)

orangeclover1

magicmirror@2.1.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
sh run-start.sh

Starting MagicMirror: v2.1.1
Loading config …
Loading module helpers …
No helper found for module: alert.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: clock.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: calendar
No helper found for module: compliments.
No helper found for module: currentweather.
No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: newsfeed
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 …
Starting server op port 8080 …
You’re using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs
Server started …
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Connecting socket for: calendar
Starting node helper for: calendar
Connecting socket for: newsfeed
Starting module: newsfeed
Sockets connected & modules started …
Launching application.
Create new calendar fetcher for url: http://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics - Interval: 300000
Create new news fetcher for url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml - Interval: 300000
Use existing news fetcher for url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

orangeclover1

for future people who stumble here:
“npm start” was what I was missing to get things started up

I had a weird black electron pop up - realized it was a config file issue - for mine it ended up being a random address in the “address” section above the ipwhite list.

Thanks to Mykle for the help!