Installing on a Pi Zero

sdetweil

@nigel-daniels ok. We need to upgrade node or npm

Try
sudo npm I -g npm
Then npm install --only=prod
In the MagicMirror folder

nigel-daniels

@sdetweil thanks for the support, that fixed it!

It looks like npm was broken. I removed node and npm then installed node v10.20.1 and things seem to be working again. Running npm install --only=prod let the install run without getting upset about electron!

RushHour99

@sdetweil

I ran your raspberry.sh install script on a Raspberry Pi Zero W yesterday. I started with a fresh install of Rasbian. The script completed with some warnings, but the Magic Mirror started and seems to be running OK. What does this error mean? Should I try to fix it even though MagicMirror seems to be running OK?

The errored log file was located at /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-04-14T22_35_02_257Z-debug.log

Here is the snippet from the end:

10077 warn optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@2.1.2 (node_modules/fsevents):
10078 warn notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})
10079 verbose notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Valid OS:    darwin
10079 verbose notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Valid Arch:  any
10079 verbose notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Actual OS:   linux
10079 verbose notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Actual Arch: arm
10080 verbose stack Error: electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install: `node ./download-chromedriver.js`
10080 verbose stack Exit status 1
10080 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
10080 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:189:13)
10080 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
10080 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
10080 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16)
10080 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
10081 verbose pkgid electron-chromedriver@6.0.0
10082 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
10083 verbose Linux 4.19.97+
10084 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "eslint"
10085 verbose node v10.15.2
10086 verbose npm  v6.14.4
10087 error code ELIFECYCLE
10088 error errno 1
10089 error electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install: `node ./download-chromedriver.js`
10089 error Exit status 1
10090 error Failed at the electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install script.
10090 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
10091 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

install.log:

install starting  - Tue Apr 14 17:54:46 EDT 2020
installing on armv6l processor system
the os is Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Release: 10 Codename: buster
[96mUpdating packages ...[90m
Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease Hit:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease Reading package lists...
apt-get update  completed ok
apt-get upgrade  started
apt upgrade result =rc=0 Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[96mInstalling helper tools ...[90m
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
build-essential is already the newest version (12.6).
curl is already the newest version (7.64.0-4+deb10u1).
git is already the newest version (1:2.20.1-2+deb10u1).
unzip is already the newest version (6.0-23+deb10u1).
wget is already the newest version (1.20.1-1.1).
wget set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[96mCheck current Node installation ...[0m
[0mNode currently installed. Checking version number.
[0mMinimum Node version: [1mv10.1.0[0m
[0mInstalled Node version: [1mv10.15.2[0m
[92mNo Node.js upgrade necessary.[0m
[96mCheck current NPM installation ...[0m
[0mNPM currently installed. Checking version number.
[0mMinimum npm version: [1mV6.0.0[0m
[0mInstalled npm version: [1mV5.8.0[0m
[96mnpm should be upgraded.[0m
[96mInstalling npm ...[90m
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
npm is already the newest version (5.8.0+ds6-4).
npm set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
upgrading npm to latest
/usr/local/bin/npm -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
/usr/local/bin/npx -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js
+ npm@6.14.4
added 435 packages from 869 contributors in 416.088s
[92mnpm installation Done! version=V6.14.4[0m
[96mCloning MagicMirror ...[90m
[92mCloning MagicMirror Done![90m
package.json update for armv6l completed ok
[96mInstalling dependencies ...[90m

> electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
> node ./download-chromedriver.js

[92mDependencies installation Done![90m
setting up initial config.js
[96mCheck plymouth installation ...[0m
[90mSplashscreen: Checking themes directory.[0m
[90mSplashscreen: Create theme directory if not exists.[0m
[92mSplashscreen: Changed theme to MagicMirror successfully.[0m
install and setup pm2
pm2 not installed, installing
pm2 install result npm WARN deprecated mkdirp@0.5.1: Legacy versions of mkdirp are no longer supported. Please update to mkdirp 1.x. (Note that the API surface has changed to use Promises in 1.x.) /usr/local/bin/pm2 -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 /usr/local/bin/pm2-dev -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2-dev /usr/local/bin/pm2-docker -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2-docker /usr/local/bin/pm2-runtime -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2-runtime npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@~2.1.2 (node_modules/pm2/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.2: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"}) + pm2@4.2.3 added 206 packages from 202 contributors in 240.179s
get the pm2 platform specific startup command
startup command = sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

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                          Runtime Edition

        PM2 is a Production Process Manager for Node.js applications
                     with a built-in Load Balancer.

                Start and Daemonize any application:
                $ pm2 start app.js

                Load Balance 4 instances of api.js:
                $ pm2 start api.js -i 4

                Monitor in production:
                $ pm2 monitor

                Make pm2 auto-boot at server restart:
                $ pm2 startup

                To go further checkout:
                http://pm2.io/


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[PM2] Init System found: systemd
Platform systemd
Template
[Unit]
Description=PM2 process manager
Documentation=https://pm2.keymetrics.io/
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=pi
LimitNOFILE=infinity
LimitNPROC=infinity
LimitCORE=infinity
Environment=PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Environment=PM2_HOME=/home/pi/.pm2
PIDFile=/home/pi/.pm2/pm2.pid
Restart=on-failure

ExecStart=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 resurrect
ExecReload=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 reload all
ExecStop=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 kill

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Target path
/etc/systemd/system/pm2-pi.service
Command list
[ 'systemctl enable pm2-pi' ]
[PM2] Writing init configuration in /etc/systemd/system/pm2-pi.service
[PM2] Making script booting at startup...
[PM2] [-] Executing: systemctl enable pm2-pi...
[PM2] [v] Command successfully executed.
+---------------------------------------+
[PM2] Freeze a process list on reboot via:
$ pm2 save

[PM2] Remove init script via:
$ pm2 unstartup systemd
pm2 startup command done
configure the pm2 config file for MagicMirror
start MagicMirror via pm2 now
save MagicMirror pm2 config now
disable screensaver via gsettings was true and uint32 300
disable screensaver via lightdm.conf
disable screensaver via lxsession
[92mWe're ready! Run [1m[97mpm2 start MagicMirror[0m[92m from the ~/MagicMirror directory to start your MagicMirror.[0m
install completed - Tue Apr 14 19:02:54 EDT 2020

sdetweil

@RushHour99 that error is because some of the components used for the automated testing aren’t found. It’s ok.

I need to recheck. I thought I had disabled trying to load those parts.

All looks good

RushHour99

@sdetweil Thanks for the reply. Magic Mirror does appear to be working just fine on my Pi Zero W. I only ran the install script. Should I run the upgrade script too?

sdetweil

@RushHour99 no. Upgrade is for every 3 months when the next release comes out. the scripts are only for MagicMirror… not the base OS, or any modules.

sdetweil

@RushHour99 looks like something changed between April 11 and April 15 in the npm tree, as it skipped the electron-chromdriver on the 11th and tries to install it today. is IS because of the specton library that is in the DEV tree, which i request to be skipped with --only=prod

so much fun…
I opened an issue against the scripts
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/issues/5
to track it

Mykle1

@sdetweil said in Installing on a Pi Zero:

my intent is to submit this new installer to replace the project version…

I second the motion. :thumbsup:

sdetweil

@RushHour99 looks like something changed between April 11 and April 15 in the npm tree, as it skipped the electron-chromdriver on the 11th and tries to install it today. is IS because of the specton library that is in the DEV tree, which i request to be skipped with --only=prod

so much fun…

sdetweil

@Mykle1 yeh, they updated the repo version in 2.10, and were completely removed in 2.11 to an outside repo…

naked-head

I got a new Pi Zero W, so I start a fresh install with a raspbian lite stretch (2019-04-08 version) but I got this error:

> electron-chromedriver@6.0.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
> node ./download-chromedriver.js

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver/download-chromedriver.js:19
  if (err != null) throw err
                   ^

Error: Failed to find Electron v6.0.0 for linux-armv6l at https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v6.0.0/chromedriver-v6.0.0-linux-armv6l.zip

searching on electron: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v6.0.0 I can’t find armv6 version.

Whats the problem?
my pi is too old?
I got the wrong raspbian version?
thanks

qu1que

@naked-head

I think electron is discontinued for raspberry pi zero, a few months ago I see a post in this forum talking about that. Now I can’t find that post.

sdetweil

@naked-head did you use the automated installer? it handles this issue…
electron is no longer available for the armv6l devices, and the default, manual npm install) will leave nothing installed…

there is a side effect bug with npm… when my script runs, I request only the components needed for execution not for automated test, and the chromedriver is only used for automated testing… but npm didn’t pass on my request for only prod to sub modules…

it causes no harm, other than that message

you will have to run in split mode (serveronly + chromium-browser to view)…

there are a bunch of tricky setup things… I suggest using the installer script
also, lite does not include the graphical desktop, which is required, unless u intend to run headless

see the installer script here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

all extra scripts were removed in 2.11, but referenced as ‘alternative’ install options…
in the online doc

naked-head

I used this script: https://github.com/ac2799/MagicMirrorPi0Installer following his guide.
I’ll try the script you suggest.
Thanks a lot

naked-head

That’s work!!!
And now the poor Pi Zero W had to do a lot of work :face_screaming_in_fear:

sdetweil

@naked-head said in Installing on a Pi Zero:

And now the poor Pi Zero W had to do a lot of work

yes, it is only a pi0… !!

KNERD

It seems this (the script OP posted) needs to be updated. I just tried this on the Raspberry Pi OS (based on Debian 10 “Buster”).
It failed. I believe mostly because npm kept reporting warnings about not supporting nodejs version 10, and errors about could not load, or missing requirements not installed.

sdetweil

@KNERD yes, please use mine. I support and test with it
see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

KNERD

@sdetweil I just tried yours, and it failed also. npm also threw out some warnings and errors. The last line from the CLI states “Unable to install dependencies”

Update on sdetweil script:

I see why now it failed. It seems my pi ZeroW has issue with the Wi-Fi becoming unresponsive. I have to end up turning it on and off.

I will try running it again

Update 2: the WI-Fi became unresponsive again. I guess I need to go with a regular Pi to get this working. I do not like the performance of the Pi Zero anyway

sdetweil

@KNERD where is the pi0 relative to your router? I did have some trouble like this before I installed a range extender in the office.

I have since gone to Google WiFi mesh and things are much more stable.