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  • S Offline
    Sandy2503
    last edited by Dec 19, 2017, 9:08 PM

    i have a problem at downgrading:

    pi@magicmirror:~ $ cd ~/MagicMirror
    pi@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror $  npm install electron@1.4.15
    
    > electron@1.4.15 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
    > node install.js
    
    - @types/node@7.0.43 node_modules/@types/node
    magicmirror@2.1.3 /home/pi/MagicMirror
    └── electron@1.4.15  invalid
    
    

    How can i fix that ?

    Sandy2503

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    • C Offline
      cruunnerr
      last edited by cruunnerr Dec 20, 2017, 4:27 PM Dec 20, 2017, 4:23 PM

      Hey guys,

      (first, sorry for my english. i hope you understand what i am trying to tell^^)

      i have got the same problem as u all.

      So i tried to fix it with using MagicMirror 2.1.0 and electron 1.4.15

      Unfortunately i am not the best programer, so sometimes i don’t know if i’m doing anything right.

      Well, i tried the option as shown in this thread on page 18 (https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/28875)

      That gave me some npm errors when i type “npm start”.
      So i tried to use this guide: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/5274/how-to-manually-install-mm-on-your-pi-for-absolute-beginners

      But it gave me the same errors.

      Step by step i did:

      1. rename the original MM-Folder to “MagicMirror_OLD”
      2. Downloaded this https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/archive/v2.1.0.zip
      3. extract it and rename it to “MagicMirror”
      4. cd in this folder and type “npm install”
      5. after installing was done i typed “npm start” and got this:
      pi@MagicMirror:~ $ cd ~/MagicMirror/
      pi@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror $ npm start
      
      > magicmirror@2.1.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
      > electron js/electron.js
      
      
      npm ERR! Linux 4.9.59-v7+
      npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
      npm ERR! node v6.12.2
      npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
      npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
      npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
      npm ERR! Exit status 1
      npm ERR! 
      npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.0 start script 'electron js/electron.js'.
      npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
      npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
      npm ERR! not with npm itself.
      npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
      npm ERR!     electron js/electron.js
      npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
      npm ERR!     npm bugs magicmirror
      npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
      npm ERR!     npm owner ls magicmirror
      npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
      
      npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
      npm ERR!     /home/pi/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log
      pi@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror $ 
      

      Another time i tried as shown on page 18. it was showing me, that i was using electron 1.4.15, but when i typed the “npm start” it shows me the same message as above.

      i don’t know what to do :( would be quite nice, if u guys could invest some time to solve my problem together. thank you very much :)

      edit:

      the “npm-debug.log” is here:

      ``
      0 info it worked if it ends with ok
      1 verbose cli [ ‘/usr/bin/node’, ‘/usr/bin/npm’, ‘start’ ]
      2 info using npm@3.10.10
      3 info using node@v6.12.2
      4 verbose run-script [ ‘prestart’, ‘start’, ‘poststart’ ]
      5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~prestart: magicmirror@2.1.0
      6 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing
      7 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~start: magicmirror@2.1.0
      8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
      9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
      10 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~start: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror
      11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~start: Args: [ ‘-c’, ‘electron js/electron.js’ ]
      12 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~start: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
      13 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.0~start: Failed to exec start script
      14 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.1.0 start: electron js/electron.js
      14 verbose stack Exit status 1
      14 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:255:16)
      14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
      14 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
      14 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:40:14)
      14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
      14 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
      14 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:920:16)
      14 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:230:5)
      15 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.1.0
      16 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
      17 error Linux 4.9.59-v7+
      18 error argv “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/bin/npm” “start”
      19 error node v6.12.2
      20 error npm v3.10.10
      21 error code ELIFECYCLE
      22 error magicmirror@2.1.0 start: electron js/electron.js
      22 error Exit status 1
      23 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.0 start script ‘electron js/electron.js’.
      23 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
      23 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
      23 error not with npm itself.
      23 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
      23 error electron js/electron.js
      23 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
      23 error npm bugs magicmirror
      23 error Or if that isn’t available, you can get their info via:
      23 error npm owner ls magicmirror
      23 error There is likely additional logging output above.
      24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

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      • S Offline
        Sandy2503
        last edited by Dec 20, 2017, 5:23 PM

        @cruunnerr - I `ve done it !
        without previous Unistall

        i have downgraded with:

        sudo npm install -g electron@1.4.15
        

        Sandy2503

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        • C Offline
          cruunnerr
          last edited by cruunnerr Dec 20, 2017, 5:59 PM Dec 20, 2017, 5:28 PM

          Well,

          i had MM 2.1.2 installed, so i needed to use the 2.1.0 way…

          but i actually got it running with “DISPLAY=:0 npm start”

          then i just copied the installed modules folders to the new directory and copied my “old” config.js but that didn’t work.

          i actually install the 3rd party modules manual. hopefully my old config.js will work then.

          But thank you anyway

          edit:

          so,

          i got MM2.1.0 running with electron 1.4.15

          have had a few problems, but now all works great.

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          • K Offline
            knubbl
            last edited by knubbl Dec 26, 2017, 10:10 PM Dec 23, 2017, 4:49 PM

            Bad issue with electron. When i downgrade to 1.4.15 the default calender module does not work

            ok…calendar works fine

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            • C Offline
              cruunnerr
              last edited by cruunnerr Dec 26, 2017, 8:08 PM Dec 26, 2017, 8:06 PM

              Cause i didn’t want to run 2.1.0 and also got many errors every time i looked in the logs, i decided to do a fresh install and try again.

              So i just installed a fresh Raspbian stretch lite and followed this guide: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Jessie-Lite-Installation-Guide

              after the first start i got 80-85% cpu usage just playing the default modules.

              so i went into my MagicMirror folder and just typed “npm install electron@1.4.15”.
              It said that the version seems to be invalid, but after a reboot i tooled a look in the
              “/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/version”
              and saw a 1.4.15 shown.

              thats all.

              so in my experience its just the electron version needed to downgrade. Neither the OS nor the MagicMirror Version needs to be downgraded.

              Loaded up a video: https://youtu.be/ak_mEMuLpYc

              shows “nmon-stats” while adding Traffic- and News-Module via Remote Control
              Still shows peaks when animation comes, but its fluety anyway

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              • WeatherGeekW Offline
                WeatherGeek
                last edited by Dec 28, 2017, 2:29 PM

                I have been having the issue, thanks so much for all the detailed information! I am going to do a fresh install with Jessy and downgrade Electron and MM2.

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                • M Offline
                  mattn
                  last edited by mattn Apr 17, 2018, 6:53 AM Apr 16, 2018, 10:02 PM

                  First off, apologies for the necro! But I had to reinstall MM this weekend and came across this same issue. After a fair bit of time reinstalling/googling, I managed to resolve it by adding the following to /etc/environment

                  ELECTRON_FORCE_WINDOW_MENU_BAR=1
                  

                  So thought I’d post it here in case anyone else experiences this.
                  I’ve had the default install running for a while since adding the fix and my load avg has dropped from 6+ to “0.00, 0.02, 0.02” and electron seems to peak at around 7% every ~30s for about 2s. The rest of the time it isn’t even visible in top’s list.

                  credit to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/5x9t7j/electron_app_high_cpu_usage/
                  Edit: After adding my usual modules, electron’s CPU usage has gone up to a fairly constant ~9% across 3 processes.

                  top - 00:04:33 up 25 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.13, 0.13
                  Tasks: 156 total,   2 running, 154 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
                  %Cpu(s):  2.0 us,  0.4 sy,  0.0 ni, 97.6 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
                  KiB Mem:    947732 total,   486072 used,   461660 free,    26476 buffers
                  KiB Swap:   102396 total,        0 used,   102396 free.   240288 cached Mem
                  
                    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
                   1387 pi        20   0  300260  98384  55840 S   4.9 10.4   0:45.48 electron
                   1394 pi        20   0  286500  68700  49420 S   2.0  7.2   0:23.08 electron
                   1358 pi        20   0  436408  78528  57656 S   1.0  8.3   0:19.25 electron
                  

                  Edit2: Left it running over night, and it’s stable:

                  top - 07:51:22 up  8:12,  3 users,  load average: 0.24, 0.23, 0.17
                  Tasks: 153 total,   1 running, 152 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
                  %Cpu(s):  2.1 us,  0.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 97.5 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
                  KiB Mem:    947732 total,   543280 used,   404452 free,    34664 buffers
                  KiB Swap:   102396 total,        0 used,   102396 free.   271040 cached Mem
                  
                    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
                   1798 pi        20   0  301180  99652  56580 S   5.3 10.5  22:54.84 electron
                   1805 pi        20   0  321060  79368  50868 S   2.6  8.4  11:36.49 electron
                   1770 pi        20   0  480972  82744  58648 S   1.0  8.7   7:20.91 electron
                  
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                  • D Offline
                    Doum @mattn
                    last edited by Apr 17, 2018, 5:20 PM

                    @mattn I am pretty new to linux/raspbian… I do not have any file/folder under /etc with the name environment?

                    Should i create a file and add this line in? add it somewhere else?

                    Thanks

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                    • N Offline
                      nparab
                      last edited by Apr 17, 2018, 6:49 PM

                      Thanks v.much to everyone on this forum. I just downgraded Electron to 1.4.15, without downgrading either MagicMirror2 or my OS, and my CPU usage and temperature are significantly down. But I’m facing yet another problem because of this downgrading of Electron. My MMM-PIR-Sensor module is giving this error:

                      App threw an error during load
                      Error: Module version mismatch. Expected 50, got 54.
                          at Error (native)
                          at process.module.(anonymous function) [as dlopen] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:173:20)
                          at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:583:18)
                          at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as .node] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:173:20)
                          at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
                          at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
                          at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
                          at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
                          at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
                          at bindings (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:81:44)
                      Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
                      Error: Module version mismatch. Expected 50, got 54.
                          at Error (native)
                          at process.module.(anonymous function) [as dlopen] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:173:20)
                          at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:583:18)
                          at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as .node] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:173:20)
                          at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
                          at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
                          at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
                          at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
                          at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
                          at bindings (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:81:44)
                      

                      Any help on fixing this would be appreciated.

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