<![CDATA[MMM-Hotword problem with Black Screen]]>Hi, I’ve instaled MMM-AssistantMk2 and it seems to be working fine. I had a problem with blackscreen on that but used this post from a couple days ago to fix it.
Now I’ve installed MMM-Hotword and am getting a black screen when i try to start my mirror with it configured. I believe snowboy is not installing, there isn’t a folder for it in “node_modules” (which, from my reading, I think there is supposed to be). I’ve run the “save snowboy” command a bunch of times but get the same errors every time.

Any help would be appreciated.

–edit-- I just realized i posted this in the main troubleshooting forum instead of the module troubleshooting. Should i delete and repost? Or can the Mods move it?

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword $ npm install --save snowboy
npm WARN deprecated hoek@2.16.3: The major version is no longer supported. Please update to 4.x or newer

> snowboy@1.3.1 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(403): https://snowboy-release-node.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/snowboy/v1.3.1/Release/snowboy-v1.3.1-node-v64-linux-arm.tar.gz 
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for snowboy@1.3.1 and node@10.11.0 (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(undefined): https://snowboy-release-node.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/snowboy/v1.3.1/Release/snowboy-v1.3.1-node-v64-linux-arm.tar.gz 
node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for snowboy@1.3.1 and node@10.11.0 (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'nan'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
    at [eval]:1:1
    at Script.runInThisContext (vm.js:96:20)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:303:38)
    at Object.<anonymous> ([eval]-wrapper:6:22)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
    at evalScript (internal/bootstrap/node.js:576:27)
gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'nan'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
    at [eval]:1:1
    at Script.runInThisContext (vm.js:96:20)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:303:38)
    at Object.<anonymous> ([eval]-wrapper:6:22)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
    at evalScript (internal/bootstrap/node.js:576:27)
gyp: Call to 'node -e "require('nan')"' returned exit status 1 while in binding.gyp. while trying to load binding.gyp
gypgyp ERR!  configure error 
ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! gypstack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp  ERR!ERR!  stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:345:16)
stackgyp Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
 gypERR!  stackERR!     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
 stackgyp     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:345:16)
 ERR!gyp  stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:240:12)
ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:240:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.50-v7+
gyp ERR! Systemgyp Linux 4.14.50-v7+
 ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node" "--module_name=snowboy" "--module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
gyp gypERR! node -v  v10.11.0
ERR! gypcommand  "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node" "--module_name=snowboy" "--module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm"
ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not okgyp 
 ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
gyp ERR! node -v v10.11.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error 
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node --module_name=snowboy --module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:962:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:251:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.50-v7+
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.11.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.39
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok 
Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm/snowboy.node --module_name=snowboy --module_path=/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Hotword/node_modules/snowboy/lib/node/binding/Release/node-v64-linux-arm' (1)
npm WARN MMM-Hotword@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! snowboy@1.3.1 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the snowboy@1.3.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2018-10-21T03_32_36_367Z-debug.log
]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/8949/mmm-hotword-problem-with-black-screenRSS for NodeWed, 09 Sep 2026 03:48:29 GMTSun, 21 Oct 2018 03:48:01 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to MMM-Hotword problem with Black Screen on Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:52:27 GMT]]>I’m going to call this solved, kinda. I restarted from scratch and got it to work. Snowboy was not installing for some reason. Possibly my raspbian was not up to date. But we’ll never know.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/45882https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/45882Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:52:27 GMT