UNSOLVED Raspberry 2 clean install showing as black screen
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Hi all i am buggers here i have been trying to get this working for a week was going to be a gift for my wife for mothers days but no time now , i have done many many clean installs and each time no matter what i havedone it only start with a black screen and no data on the screen at all, i have made sure that the onfig file is the sample and still no data on the screen, i have tried to access it with the ipaddress from a remote pc using port 8080 and cant see anything, i am new to this any help would be great please
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@adamrwolarczuk said in Raspberry 2 clean install showing as black screen:
i have made sure that the onfig file is the sample
You copied the sample, pasted it and renamed the copy to config.js?
What is your terminal reporting?
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i did yea and i am dumb ass when it comes to ths what do you need to know from the terminal
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Starting MagicMirror: v2.3.1
Loading config …
Loading module helpers …
No helper found for module: alert.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: clock.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: calendar
No helper found for module: compliments.
No helper found for module: currentweather.
No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: newsfeed
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 …
Server started …
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Connecting socket for: calendar
Starting node helper for: calendar
Connecting socket for: newsfeed
Starting module: newsfeed
Sockets connected & modules started …
Launching application. -
Well, it certainly shows that MM is launching and running. There are several black screen topics that you can look through. Do a forum search for black screen. Otherwise, perhaps someone else will chime in that had the same problem. I suspect that electron may be at fault or that your dependencies failed to install properly
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i just ran the auto one and it didnt error at all i did a search and tried a few things and no dice
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there is a bug in the electron browser that causes the black screen.
i did
npm remove electron
npm install electron@1.7.9and it works fine now…
someone posted another solution to issue 1243
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@sdetweil said in Raspberry 2 clean install showing as black screen:
npm remove electron
npm install electron@1.7.9I will have to try that. Thank you! My fix had been to install another web browser and use that. Electron’s built-in browser seemed to always show a black screen.
