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    • D Offline
      dejayou
      last edited by

      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.

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      • MichMichM Offline
        MichMich Admin
        last edited by

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

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          dejayou
          last edited by MichMich

          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;
          }
          
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          • MichMichM Offline
            MichMich Admin
            last edited by

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

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              dejayou
              last edited by

              That did it! Amazing thank you!

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                spazehorst
                last edited by 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

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                • MichMichM Offline
                  MichMich Admin @spazehorst
                  last edited by

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

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                    spazehorst @MichMich
                    last edited by

                    @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

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                      MichMich Admin @spazehorst
                      last edited by

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

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                        spazehorst @MichMich
                        last edited by spazehorst

                        @MichMich Hi, sorry for the late reply, I could now quickly test it and with the sample config of the devel branch (commit e2ed0f5e55c132633bcbd5c7c64159c0aaced571) it works.

                        edit: after pulling the master again, it now also works there with language: ‘en’

                        Cheers

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