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MichMich

I just pushed a possible fix to the develop branch. Please let me know if this solves the issue.

dejayou

Hi MichMich- I am using the new develop branch and whatever the fix was is not working for me. I am still getting the blank black screen. I also wasn’t able to fix it with changing the naming conventions related to the language settings that worked for others.

MichMich

In your case its probably an other issue. Could you share your config.js (don’t forget to take out sensitive info)?

dejayou

Hi MichMich,
Thank you for continuing to work with me on this matter. Here is the config file:

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 */
var config = {
    port: 8080,

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

    modules: [{
        module: "alert"
    },
            {
        module: "wuforecast",
        position: "top_right", // This can be any of the regions.
        // Best results in left or right regions.
        config: {
            // See ‘Configuration options’ for more information.
            location: "Cleveland",
            appid: "5095830b868b90bcc31affdad4911325" //wunderground.com API key.
        }
    },
            {
        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: "Cleveland",
            locationID: "4614088", //ID from bulk.openweather.org/sample/
            appid: "5095830b868b90bcc31affdad4911325"
        }
    },
            {
        module: "weatherforecast",
        position: "top_right",
        header: "Weather Forecast",
        config: {
            location: "Cleveland",
            locationID: "4614088", //ID from bulk.openweather.org/sample/
            appid: "5095830b868b90bcc31affdad4911325"
        }
    },
            {
        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;
}

MichMich

@dejayou: could you try your magic mirror without the wuforecast module?

dejayou

That did it! Amazing thank you!

spazehorst

Hello @MichMich and everyone!

First of all big thanks for this really cool project, my bathroom mirror is progressing well ;-)

Unfortunately I cannot confirm that this issue here is solved.

After succeeding to set up a Pi 1 with the serveronly feature, I ordered a Pi 3, did almost the same but maybe not thoroughly, thought I messed up, and started over from scratch:

I ran the automatic installer and left the config.js.sample as it was (this was the lucky move!). I started the mirror with DISPLAY=:0 npm start. The interface shows up and gives the message: please create a config.js file.
But when I do mv config.js.sample config.js and restart the mirror, I get a black screen. When I now set the language to ‘’, it works as supposed.
So maybe also one of the default modules messes up (like the “wuforecast”)?
Anyhow may I suggest to just set the language field blank in the config.js.sample, so that others don’t stumble upon this?

Thank you and Cheers, Patrick

PS:
Pi 3 Model B v1.2
$uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.4.11-v7+ #888 SMP Mon May 23 20:10:33 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

The only commands I ever executed after reinstall were:
sudo su
sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install -y x11-xserver-utils unclutter matchbox vim
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh | bash
cd MagicMirror/
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

MichMich

@spazehorst could you try it with The sample config? Especially no 3rd party modules.

spazehorst

@MichMich well, as I wrote above, I just renamed the sample config which is currently checkd in, never even opened it ;-) That’s why I said it must be one of those default modules…
(I am sitting on this commit: 5d9d71dee8c300fede321dbafb5ff7aa79f1ea30)
Cheers

MichMich

@spazehorst Please try The develop branch with The latest commit.