3. Setting up Magic Mirror remotely?
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Setting up Magic Mirror remotely?

  • N

    Today I tried setting up my pi remotely from a laptop, It went thru a lot of stuff then all of a sudden gave two warnings, something about something needed loaded with -g. I didnt screen capture it. Do I have to have the hdmi screen hooked up and do it from there, or is doing it remotely ok?

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    Did you access your PI via ssh (putty for example)? Or did you use vnc to actually see the screen?
    Both ways should be fine for installation, only running the MagicMirror via ssh is a bit tricky as you have to tell MagicMirror which display to use.

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  • N

    @yawns Via VNC, It froze when it did the two warnings. the pi prompt never returned. I just shut it down. Had to leave. Will try again when I have time, next time via the hdmi screen.

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  • N

    tried again today with the hdmi screen, it got to where it said something about it was loading a file that had 715 at the end and froze. so restarted removed the folder, and restarted installing remotely. it got to loading depandencies and gave me this :

    Installing dependencies …
    npm WARN prefer global coffee-script@1.10.0 should be installed with -g
    npm WARN prefer global jsonlint@1.6.2 should be installed with -g

    uws@0.14.5 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/uws
    node-gyp rebuild > build_log.txt 2>&1 || exit 0
    Unable to install dependencies!

    tried starting npm remotely got this:

    pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm start
    npm ERR! Linux 4.9.35-v7+
    npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/bin/npm” "start"
    npm ERR! node v6.11.5
    npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
    npm ERR! path /home/pi/package.json
    npm ERR! code ENOENT
    npm ERR! errno -2
    npm ERR! syscall open
    npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json’
    npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json’
    npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
    npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
    npm ERR! enoent
    npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
    npm ERR! /home/pi/npm-debug.log

    tried starting from the hdmi screen same thing.

    tried starting from with the magicmirror folder, got this:

    pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

    magicmirror@2.1.3 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
    sh run-start.sh
    /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:9
    throw new Error(‘Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again’)
    ^
    Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:9:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/cli.js:3:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    npm ERR! Linux 4.9.35-v7+
    npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/bin/npm” "start"
    npm ERR! node v6.11.5
    npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
    npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
    npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.3 start: sh run-start.sh
    npm ERR! Exit status 1
    npm ERR!
    npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.3 start script ‘sh run-start.sh’.
    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! sh run-start.sh
    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@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $
    Can anyone point me in the direction to correct? I have already upgraded Node.js so i know it cant be that.

    npm-bug.log:
    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@v6.11.5
    4 verbose run-script [ ‘prestart’, ‘start’, ‘poststart’ ]
    5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~prestart: magicmirror@2.1.3
    6 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing
    7 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: magicmirror@2.1.3
    8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
    9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bi$
    10 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror
    11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: Args: [ ‘-c’, ‘sh run-start.sh’ ]
    12 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
    13 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: Failed to exec start script
    14 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.1.3 start: sh run-start.sh
    14 verbose stack Exit status 1
    14 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib$
    14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    14 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
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  • Module Developer

    @navyvette87 said in Setting up Magic Mirror remotely?:

    tried starting npm remotely got this:
    pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm start

    You would need to cd MagicMirror to change into your MagicMirror directory first, then run npm start

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  • N

    Went back to the website and read, and found something about npm install, so ran that, it looked like it installed something, then ran npm start again and got:

    magicmirror@2.1.3 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
    sh run-start.sh
    /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:9
    throw new Error(‘Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again’)
    ^
    Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/index.js:9:9)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/cli.js:3:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    npm ERR! Linux 4.9.35-v7+
    npm ERR! argv “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/bin/npm” "start"
    npm ERR! node v6.11.5
    npm ERR! npm v3.10.10
    npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
    npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.3 start: sh run-start.sh
    npm ERR! Exit status 1
    npm ERR!
    npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.3 start script ‘sh run-start.sh’.
    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! sh run-start.sh
    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@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

    npm-debug.log
    0 info it worked if it ends with ok
    1 verbose cli [ ‘/usr/bin/node’, ‘/usr/bin/npm’, ‘start’, ‘dev’ ]
    2 info using npm@3.10.10
    3 info using node@v6.11.5
    4 verbose run-script [ ‘prestart’, ‘start’, ‘poststart’ ]
    5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~prestart: magicmirror@2.1.3
    6 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing
    7 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: magicmirror@2.1.3
    8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
    9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bi$
    10 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror
    11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: Args: [ ‘-c’, 'sh run-start.sh "dev$
    12 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
    13 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.3~start: Failed to exec start script
    14 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.1.3 start: sh run-start.sh "dev"
    14 verbose stack Exit status 1
    14 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib$
    14 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    14 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
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  • Module Developer

    @navyvette87 said in Setting up Magic Mirror remotely?:

    throw new Error(‘Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again’)

    Terminal is telling what happened and you what to do here.

    Go into your MagicMirror folder, then into the node_modules folder, then DELETE the electron folder.

    Then run npm install again in the MagicMirror directory

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  • N

    ok read some on the repository, was able to run the serveronly and got this
    Magic Mirror2
    Please create a config file.
    See README for more information.
    If you get this message while your config file is already
    created, your config file probably contains an error.
    Use a JavaScript linter to validate your file.

    what next?

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  • Module Developer

    @navyvette87

    Look at the bottom left of my post. Click on Create a working config

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  • N

    I got it to work, but then I went through the pi setup stuff to turn on the screensaver and wifi sleep, now when i tried to reboot, it says

    [FAILED] Failed to start Light Display Manager
    SSH is enabled and the default password for the ‘pi’ user has not been changed. This is a security risk - please login as the ‘pi’ user and type passwd to set a new password.
    pi@raspberrypi: $

    How do i get it to continue to the desktop screen?

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