Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult

MMRPi1

First if all, I’m new to linux and the pi, so please forgive my ignorance.
Anyway, I’ve been trying to get the magic mirror to work on my old Pi 1 for some time now, but can’t for the life of me figure out how to do it.
I’ve followed all the instructions that I’ve come across, but still can’t figure it out.
I understand the Pi 1 is not supported so needs to be run in serveronly mode which I cannot get to work.
I’ve installed node.js and npm (I think) but can’t get it to work. (To say I have no idea what I’m doing is an understatement.)
(I did try to comment out the bit of the installer that checks the RPi version and the installer did run [after executing bash raspberry.sh] but said it was unable to install dependencies.)

Specs:
Raspberry Pi 1
node.js - version 5.1.0
npm - version 3.3.12
docker - version 1.3.3

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance
(By the way, I have looked at the other posts regarding the Pi1 but none of the information there helped, I really am clueless)

McSorley

It may be best to let us know what errors you are getting or problems are you are encountering. Are you able to run servermode or are you not getting that far?

MMRPi1

Thanks for the quick reply.
I’ve tried to run node serveronly in the terminal, but as far as I understand, I haven’t been able to get it to work.
Howeve, when I go to http://localhost in Chromium (where I assume the MM would be when it works) it do get a message mentioning ngix and saying the debian web server is up and running, though the serveronly mode doesn’t seem to be working.

McSorley

It would be http://localhost:8080

MMRPi1

It says that the site can’t be reached and that localhost refused to connect

A Former User

@MMRPi1 What kind of messages are shown when you run node serveronly in the shell?

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…

Go to your MagicMirror directory.
Is there package.json file in your MagicMirror directory? (..../MagicMirror/package.json)
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",
 ...
  }
}

Then, you can run npm install in /MagicMirror directory.
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!

MMRPi1

@cowboysdude Thanks.
This is the situation:
The default config file is working (I have it backed up) though when I run it in server only the clock and weather work fine, but all the other modules say “Loading…”.
I did try to customise it, but got the “No config file”, so either I have syntax errors or the sources aren’t right…
Talking of, does anyone know of a list of compatible news feeds and the like?
Thanks again

A Former User

@MMRPi1
Can you show your config.js here? It makes easier.
If you got “no config file” however you have a confidence for config.js existence, you might make some syntax error in your config.js.

you can find newsfeed rss in most news sites.
If some site has links of “RSS”(or small orange squared antenna icon), you can use that url to your newsfeed.
By example, If you want to get news from “The Washington Post”, google “washington post rss”. Then the result pages direct you to WP rss page. get a link what you want, apply that to your news-feed module config.
Most of the RSS could be compatible with that module. Even RSS of personal blogs also.

Some browsers(Firefox, IE7…) support finding RSS on current page. You can see RSS mark in addressbar if current page has valid RSS link.

You can check the reference. (I doubt there are some missing links.)
https://www.repeatserver.com/RSSFeedList.aspx
http://www.uen.org/feeds/lists.shtml

MMRPi1

Good news!
The config file is (mostly) working (it needed a reboot) and I’ll configure it until I’m satisfied at which point I need to figure out how to keep it fullscreen, disable screen timeout and do the autostart and all that…
In the meantime, thanks to everyone for their help :-D

cowboysdude

@MMRPi1 said in Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult:

Good news!
The config file is (mostly) working (it needed a reboot) and I’ll configure it until I’m satisfied at which point I need to figure out how to keep it fullscreen, disable screen timeout and do the autostart and all that…
In the meantime, thanks to everyone for their help :-D

You’re very welcome. :) Enjoy!