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    Raspberry 2 clean install showing as black screen

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      AdamRWolarczuk
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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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        Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @AdamRWolarczuk
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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?

        Create a working config
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          AdamRWolarczuk
          last edited by

          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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            AdamRWolarczuk
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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.

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              Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @AdamRWolarczuk
              last edited by Mykle1

              @adamrwolarczuk

              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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                AdamRWolarczuk
                last edited by

                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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                  sdetweil
                  last edited by

                  there is a bug in the electron browser that causes the black screen.

                  i did

                  npm remove electron
                  npm install electron@1.7.9

                  and it works fine now…

                  someone posted another solution to issue 1243

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                    abetterway @sdetweil
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                    @sdetweil said in Raspberry 2 clean install showing as black screen:

                    npm remove electron
                    npm install electron@1.7.9

                    I 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.

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