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    MMM-PIR-Sensor - White Screen

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    • BangeeB Offline
      Bangee Module Developer
      last edited by

      can you restart the magicmirror an check what errormessage you have:
      pm2 logs mm

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        phantomlight @Bangee
        last edited by

        @Bangee Thank you so much for responding. I removed magic mirror completely reinstalled… then installed the module.

        All is well now… Thank you so much!

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          bibi @Bangee
          last edited by

          @Bangee hi ! thx for your nice tuto, i have proceed with it but i got a warning as below:

          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor $ npm install
          npm WARN prefer global npm@3.10.9 should be installed with –g
          do i have to do smt specific or it’s just ok to leave it without any action?
          ps: my config file is also not working with PIR module implemented… maybe that is the reason? thx you very much for any feedabck guys!!

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          • BangeeB Offline
            Bangee Module Developer
            last edited by

            @bibi did you try it with the instructions from paviro:
            https://github.com/paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor

            I don’t think that this warn is your problem. I have so many times these warnings :-D
            You sould send us whats in your pm2 logs mm

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              bibi @Bangee
              last edited by

              @Bangee yes i follow his and yours… quite the same… regarding this npm warning I do nothing then as understood?
              I will send you the log later when I’m home
              Thx bangee! Appreciated!

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                bibi @Bangee
                last edited by

                @Bangee so as expected the pm2 log mm just show that the file has syntax error… here is my config file, i put the module at the end…
                0_1477413847262_Capture d’écran 2016-10-25 à 18.42.21.png
                thx again :)

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                • strawberry 3.141S Offline
                  strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @bibi
                  last edited by

                  @bibi powerSaving: true

                  Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

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                    bibi @strawberry 3.141
                    last edited by bibi

                    @strawberry-3.141 right was a typo but still the config file is “not created” :((

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                    • strawberry 3.141S Offline
                      strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @bibi
                      last edited by

                      @bibi can you post your whole config file?

                      Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

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                        bibi @strawberry 3.141
                        last edited by paviro

                        @strawberry-3.141 here you go and many thx in advance - i struggling with this now (sorry i don’t know why only few parts of the code is with the color background)

                        /* Magic Mirror Config Sample
                         *
                         * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
                         * MIT Licensed.
                         */
                        var config = {
                                port: 8080,
                        
                                language: 'en',
                                timeFormat: 24,
                                units: 'metric',
                        
                                modules: [
                                        {
                                                module: 'alert',
                                        },
                                        {
                                                module: 'clock',
                                                position: 'top_left'
                                        },
                                        {
                                                module: 'calendar',
                        
                                                header: 'US Holidays',
                                                position: 'top_left',
                                                config: {
                                                        calendars: [
                                                                {
                                                                        symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
                                                                        url: 'webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics'
                                                                }
                                                        ]
                                                }
                                        },
                                        {
                                                module: 'compliments',
                                                position: 'lower_third'
                                        },
                                        {
                                                module: 'currentweather',
                                                header: 'xxx',
                                                position: 'top_right',
                                                config: {
                                                        location: 'xxx,xxx',
                                                        locationID: 'xxx',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org
                                                        appid: 'xxx'
                                                }
                                        },
                                        {
                                                module: 'newsfeed',
                                                position: 'bottom_bar',
                                                config: {
                                                        feeds: [
                                                                {
                                                                        title: "New York Times",
                                                                        url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
                                                                },
                        
                                                        ],
                                                        showSourceTitle: true,
                                                        showPublishDate: true
                                        },
                                        {
                                                module: 'MMM-PIR-Sensor',
                                                config: {
                                                        sensorPIN: 22,
                                                        powerSaving: true
                                                }
                                        },
                                ]
                        };
                        
                        /*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
                        if (typeof module !== 'undefined') {module.exports = config;}
                        

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                        • yawnsY Offline
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                          Everything with at least one tab indent is treated as code and highlighted. ;)

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                            bibi @yawns
                            last edited by

                            @yawns thx! :))

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                            • strawberry 3.141S Offline
                              strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @bibi
                              last edited by

                              @bibi you forgot to close the config section in the newsfeed module, add } after showPublishDate: true and you should be fine

                              Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

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                                bibi @strawberry 3.141
                                last edited by bibi

                                @strawberry-3.141 yeah! thx a lot. at least i can see this white screen now :p :))) have to figure out how to solve this… Only if it’s realllllly really obvious for you/someone, i post my log file. (sorry to ask so much) otherwise not prob, i will reinstall the PIR module…

                                [TAILING] Tailing last 10 lines for [mm] process (change the value with --lines option)
                                /home/pi/.pm2/logs/mm-error-0.log last 10 lines:
                                0|mm       |     at Error (native)
                                0|mm       |     at process.module.(anonymous function) [as dlopen]     (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:168:20)
                                0|mm       |     at Object.Module._extensions..node (module.js:583:18)
                                0|mm       |     at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as .node] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:168:20)
                                0|mm       |     at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
                                0|mm       |     at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
                                0|mm       |     at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)
                                0|mm       |     at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
                                0|mm       |     at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
                                0|mm       |     at bindings (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:76:44)
                                
                                 /home/pi/.pm2/logs/mm-out-0.log last 10 lines:
                                 0|mm       | No helper found for module: clock.
                                 0|mm       | Initializing new module helper ...
                                 0|mm       | No helper found for module: compliments.
                                 0|mm       | No helper found for module: currentweather.
                                 0|mm       | No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
                                 0|mm       | Initializing new module helper ...
                                 0|mm       | Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
                                 0|mm       | MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
                                 0|mm       | If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub:    https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
                                 0|mm       | Launching application.
                                
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                                  bibi
                                  last edited by

                                  Ok the problem it’s solved! except the screen is turning on and off in a very strange way… have to figure out why.

                                  For those you would get the same issue as me, what i did after fixing my config file was:

                                  1. sudo apt-get update & upgrade & reboot,
                                  2. go in MMM-PIR-Sensor folder in modules folder and run npm install there
                                    3.sudo reboot
                                    cheers
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                                  • MedoM Offline
                                    Medo
                                    last edited by Medo

                                    Also had the “white screen” problem. I installed a complete new Raspian (with PIXEL), a new MagicMirror - including node.js in version 7.3.0
                                    As soon as i tried to get the MMM-Pir-Sensor working, it failed (with an white screen). Heres, how i solved my problem.

                                    At first: Theres no need to downgrade the node (i tried this too, and had no luck)

                                    I figured out, that my problem was an MMM-PIR-Sensor installation error i did not recognized at the beginning. When i tried “npm install” i got something like this (an error):

                                    "gyp WARN EACCES user “root” does not have permission to access the dev dir “/root/.node-gyp/5.12.0”

                                    I figured out, that there are two ways of solving this:

                                    1. CHOWN the directory the install procedure tries to install
                                    2. use “npm install --unsafe-perm”

                                    Im aware that option two is not the “elegant” way, but it solved my problem (and i did not have to change directory permissions).

                                    I removed all files and git the files again (like described some lines above from banglee) and then just use “npm install --unsafe-perm”

                                    The “–unsafe-perm” option was the key to my problem…

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                                      zichao92 @Medo
                                      last edited by paviro

                                      Hi @Medo ,
                                      I have gotten the white screen problem as well and my raspberry pi configuration is similar to yours ( running on PIXEL with the latest nodejs).

                                      However, upon using option 2 from your solution. I have obtained this error :

                                      npm ERR! Linux 4.4.38-v7+
                                      npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "--unsafe-perm"
                                      npm ERR! node v7.3.0
                                      npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
                                      npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
                                      npm ERR! Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor@1.1.0 postinstall: `electron-rebuild -e                                                                                                                                                              ../../node_modules/electron-prebuilt`
                                      npm ERR! Exit status 255
                                      npm ERR!
                                      npm ERR! Failed at the Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor@1.1.0 postinstall script '                                                                                                                                                             electron-rebuild -e ../../node_modules/electron-prebuilt'.
                                      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 Magic-Mirror-Module-P                                                                                                                                                             IR-Sensor package,
                                      npm ERR! not with npm itself.
                                      npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
                                      npm ERR!     electron-rebuild -e ../../node_modules/electron-prebuilt
                                      npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
                                      npm ERR!     npm bugs Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor
                                      npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
                                      npm ERR!     npm owner ls Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor
                                      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/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/npm-debug.log
                                      

                                      Does anyone have solution to this?


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                                        Medo @zichao92
                                        last edited by paviro

                                        @zichao92

                                        First things that come to my mind:

                                        • maybe a “sudo” is missing? Like sudo npm install --unsafe-perm?
                                        • are you executing this from the MMM-PIR-Sensor directory ?
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                                          zichao92 @Medo
                                          last edited by paviro

                                          Hi @Medo, Thanks for the reply.
                                          1.) I tried this method and it gives an output of the following error.

                                          pi@raspi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor $ sudo npm install --unsafe-perm
                                          npm WARN prefer global npm@3.10.10 should be installed with -g
                                          > epoll@0.1.20 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/epoll
                                          > node-gyp rebuild
                                          make: Entering directory '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/epoll/build'
                                            CXX(target) Release/obj.target/epoll/src/epoll.o
                                            SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/epoll.node
                                            COPY Release/epoll.node
                                          make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/epoll/build'
                                          > nslog@3.0.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/nslog
                                          > node-gyp rebuild
                                          make: Entering directory '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/nslog/build'
                                            CXX(target) Release/obj.target/nslog/src/main.o
                                            CXX(target) Release/obj.target/nslog/src/nslog_linux.o
                                            SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/nslog.node
                                            COPY Release/nslog.node
                                          make: Leaving directory '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/nslog/build'
                                          > Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor@1.1.0 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor
                                          > electron-rebuild -e ../../node_modules/electron-prebuilt
                                          Unable to find electron-prebuilt's version number, either install it or specify an explicit version
                                          npm ERR! Linux 4.4.38-v7+
                                          npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "--unsafe-perm"
                                          npm ERR! node v7.3.0
                                          npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
                                          npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
                                          npm ERR! Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor@1.1.0 postinstall: `electron-rebuild -e ../../node_modules/electron-prebuilt`
                                          npm ERR! Exit status 255
                                          npm ERR!
                                          npm ERR! Failed at the Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor@1.1.0 postinstall script 'electron-rebuild -e ../../node_modules/electron-prebuilt'.
                                          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 Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor package,
                                          npm ERR! not with npm itself.
                                          npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
                                          npm ERR!     electron-rebuild -e ../../node_modules/electron-prebuilt
                                          npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
                                          npm ERR!     npm bugs Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor
                                          npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
                                          npm ERR!     npm owner ls Magic-Mirror-Module-PIR-Sensor
                                          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/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/npm-debug.log
                                          
                                          1. Yea it’s in the file directory ( MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR_Sensor )

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                                            Medo @zichao92
                                            last edited by paviro

                                            @zichao92
                                            What i also did, was a complete reinstall of the PIR-Sensor

                                            I followed the steps, “Banglee” described some lines above:

                                            ok so lets go step by step:
                                            cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/

                                            now we will remove the PIR folder:
                                            rm -rf MMM-PIR-Sensor

                                            and from here, we’re going to reinstall the MMM-PIR-Sensor modul:

                                            git clone https://github.com/paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor.git
                                            cd MMM-PIR-Sensor
                                            

                                            run the following cmd here:
                                            npm install and wait, this can take a few minutes.

                                            Now you’ll have to add pi to gpio
                                            sudo useradd -g pi gpio

                                            and reboot your Raspi:
                                            sudo reboot

                                            Sorry, no further ideas so far (maybe you can open a PIR-Sensor troubleshooting thread)?


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