MagicMirror Forum
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Unsolved
    • Solved
    • MagicMirror² Repository
    • Documentation
    • 3rd-Party-Modules
    • Donate
    • Discord
    • Register
    • Login
    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
    Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.

    Installing MM2

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Troubleshooting
    20 Posts 6 Posters 18.6k Views 5 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • KirAsh4K Offline
      KirAsh4 Moderator
      last edited by

      Missing some info here: Which Raspberry Pi? Which version of Rasbian? Have you tried following the complete installation guide, from unboxing to having MM² up and running?

      A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

      B 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • B Offline
        Bu52 @KirAsh4
        last edited by

        @KirAsh4 It is a RPi 3. Raspian is version 1.9.2. I did it all with one exception. I used Noobs to install Raspian instead of installing Raspian directly to my SD Card. All else is the same.

        I will try it again without using Noobs.

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • KirAsh4K Offline
          KirAsh4 Moderator
          last edited by

          The NOOBS installation isn’t a complete version of Jessie, unfortunately. It’s a slightly “lighter” version to fit on the card with the other OS versions.

          A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

          B 2 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • B Offline
            Bu52 @KirAsh4
            last edited by

            @KirAsh4 Thank-you. I think I’m making good progress because it is getting past the dependancies. However, when I start ‘npm start’ I get about a list of error lines. If I can figure out how to upload files, I will send a text file of the error responses and the npm-debug.log file.
            1_1468859943952_npm-debug.log 0_1468859943950_err.txt

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • B Offline
              Bu52 @KirAsh4
              last edited by

              Hi @KirAsh4 ,
              I found the problem. Well, I didn’t. It was under Neokamikaze’s post. I had been using PuTTY in the installation because it made it easier and more accurate to cut and paste directions. The errors were during that PuTTY session. When I key in “npm start” from a command windows directly on the RPi 3, it comes up with the proper screen.

              I still have some additional issues, but IT RUNS!! thank-you for your help. I proved I couldn’t have done it myself.

              And thank-you, too, Neokamikaze.

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • KirAsh4K Offline
                KirAsh4 Moderator
                last edited by

                Right. If you had followed the guide, you would’ve noticed that nowhere does it talk about using a client to connect and perform the various commands. You need to access it with a keyboard attached anyway to do the initial configuration before you can connect remotely, so rather than introduce another variable (having someone install something else), I opted not to do that.

                That said, I’ll make a note in the guide. When connecting remotely, you must run the command as:

                $ DISPLAY=:0 npm start
                

                A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • 1
                • 2
                • 2 / 2
                • First post
                  Last post
                Enjoying MagicMirror? Please consider a donation!
                MagicMirror created by Michael Teeuw.
                Forum managed by Sam, technical setup by Karsten.
                This forum is using NodeBB as its core | Contributors
                Contact | Privacy Policy