So ... to update MagicMirror I would ... ??

[Richard238]

Power off & on restores VNC, and LAN access displaying MM. (Hurrah!).

Pi. Electron window is black, but shows cursor.

[Cyberwrights]

One more for blank screen, no joy after update per the instructions. Restarted MM using pm2, then rebooted the Pi. Ran the git reset --hard command, still nothing.

[NoNameRo]

for me it worked without problems as follows

pm2 stop mm

then

git pull && npm install

and then

pm2 restart mm

maybe it works for one or the other

[Cyberwrights]

@NoNameRo Intuition tells me I should have stopped the service before applying the update, but unfortunately the instructions do not…

[NoNameRo]

I do not know if it is absolutely necessary to stop the service, for me it was obvious to do it

[chef]

Perhaps try stopping all instances of electron and node.

Stop pm2

Then try the install again.

Reboot the Pi.

[MichMich]

Could everyone state what version of node you are running? (And if it works or not).

[Harry]

@MichMich said in So ... to update MagicMirror I would ... ??:

Could everyone state what version of node you are running? (And if it works or not).

Mine is v6.12.3
Not working…

[Richard238]

Node version = v6.9.5

[Cyberwrights]

v6.12.3
Not working

btw that command if anyone else needs to look it up is just
$ node -v

[Charley]

I am on v6.12.3

And not working when I update npm install

[Cyberwrights]

@chef said in So ... to update MagicMirror I would ... ??:

Perhaps try stopping all instances of electron and node.

Stop pm2

Then try the install again.

Reboot the Pi.

Tried this, same result. Blank mirror although pm2 reports it is online.

[chef]

Working on node version 6.13.1

I think I can see where this is going… The blank screen is the mirror running, but there could be an issue with loading the page data? …

[chef]

@Cyberwrights said in So ... to update MagicMirror I would ... ??:

v6.12.3
Not working

btw that command if anyone else needs to look it up is just
$ node -v

@Cyberwrights thanks for that … I just used ‘dpkg -l | grep ii | less’, and that took forever to find node … lol

[MichMich]

My first thought there is an issue with electron. Looking into it.

[MichMich]

Could someone try the following in the MagicMirror folder:

npm install electron@1.4.15

If this works, please state your Node version as well. (node -v)

[Harry]

@MichMich said in So ... to update MagicMirror I would ... ??:

npm install electron@1.4.15

pi@ham-raspi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install electron@1.4.15

electron@1.4.15 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
node install.js

• @types/node@8.10.1 node_modules/@types/node
  magicmirror@2.3.0 /home/pi/MagicMirror
  └── electron@1.4.15 invalid

Node v6.12.3

[MichMich]

Uhhmm… thats odd. It’s just a command to downgrade electron.

[MichMich]

It seems to fix the issue for others. Not sure why you are unable to downgrade electron.
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1243

Could you reboot and try again @harry?

[Harry]

@MichMich said in So ... to update MagicMirror I would ... ??:

It seems to fix the issue for others. Not sure why you are unable to downgrade electron.
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1243

Could you reboot and try again @harry?

Yep. Reboot helped.
Rebooted, stopped MagicMirror and then the downgrade worked.
MagicMirror is up and running again!

Thanks a lot!