Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult

[MMRPi1]

@Sean

[A Former User]

You need express.js
I guess your auto-installation process didn’t work anyhow. You can try manual installation. (And I recommend that.)
See this.

[MMRPi1]

@Sean I’ve tried following the instructions on that page but it hasn’t worked.
How do I install express.js?

[A Former User]

@MMRPi1 hmmm…

1. Go to your MagicMirror directory.
2. Is there package.json file in your MagicMirror directory? (..../MagicMirror/package.json)
3. If there is, open package.json you can see like this.

...
  "dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "^1.17.1",
    "colors": "^1.1.2",
    "electron": "^1.4.7",
    "express": "^4.14.0",
    "express-ipfilter": "latest",
    "feedme": "latest",
 ...
  }
}

3. Then, you can run npm install in /MagicMirror directory.
4. See how it goes.

[MMRPi1]

I’ve got a progress bar that’s progressing slowly, hopefully it will work, though it ma take a while.
Updates to follow…

[A Former User]

@MMRPi1 good luck to you. :D

[MMRPi1]

Alright, it says Magic Mirror installation was successful, but I’m not sure what to do next…

[MMRPi1]

It worked!!
Thank you to everyone :-D
Now all that’s left is screensaver, autostart and all that…
Thanks again!

[cowboysdude]

@MMRPi1 Thank you for your patience! :) Glad you got it running now some advice…

IF you have a working config before you make ANY changes to it copy it to config.bak that way you’ll always have a GOOD working config file…

Good Luck!

[Mykle1]

@cowboysdude said in Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult:

IF you have a working config before you make ANY changes to it copy it to config.bak that way you’ll always have a GOOD working config file…

This is excellent advice!