Setting up Magic Mirror remotely?

Mykle1

@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

navyvette87

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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Mykle1

@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

navyvette87

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?

Mykle1

@navyvette87

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

navyvette87

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?

Mykle1

@navyvette87

I’ve never encountered that before. Maybe, revert the changes you just made, get your mirror running, then try them again, 1 at a time

navyvette87

fixed the light display thing by rebooting with hdmi unplugged, then repluging it in, then rebooting, but the ssh message still there

A Former User

@navyvette87
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.
It means as written. Change your password with command passwd.
just try passwd in your terminal.

navyvette87

@Sean It ended up being one of the changes I made to set up the pi for the screensaver edit. I did try passwd though. thanks eveyone. I got it up and running. I have another post for a module problem, once I get that figured out, I will start on the hardware.