Installation

[jonathane]

@dazza120 raspberry pi 3 with raspian. Well I have no idea what I’ve done but something with Node, which seems to have fixed my issues…Thanks for replying, more education is requires :-)

[sdetweil]

@jonathane outstanding!.. glad to hear it… in general this whole forum area is for ‘how to’, not ‘selling finished’.

[dazza120]

@jonathane great news, well stay on the forum that’s how I’m getting educated 😂 been almost 4months and I’m still building my mirror I keep changing stuff and looking on here giving myself more ideas and headaches on how to implement them 😂

[leroyhab]

Hello Jonathane.
your installation errors were like this ?

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/9632/absolute-beginner-needing-help-installing-dependencies

What did you do to resolve your installation issues?
Best regards

[jonathane]

Well. I thought I’d finished. It shut down and wouldn’t start up. So I rebooted the pi and now it wants a password. It wont recognise raspberry and I haven’t set one. Seriously never thought this would be so difficult.

[sdetweil]

@jonathane haven’t set one… then just hit enter…

but the base PI os install usually has a password… try 'pi ’ too

[jonathane]

@sdetweil thanks nothing worked. Very odd. Back to the drawing board.

[sdetweil]

@jonathane what OS image did u use for memory card?

[jonathane]

@sdetweil Raspian. I 're flashed the card and have it going again but can find a way to stop it from “sleeping” I tried some script but it didn’t work. Any idea?

[sdetweil]

@jonathane u mean screensaver?

[jonathane]

@sdetweil yes

[Mykle1]

@jonathane

Personally, I would install xscreensaver and use that to disable the screensaver.

In your terminal
sudo apt-get install xscreensaver

THEN
sudo reboot

Run xscreensaver. Choose Disable Screensaver. Done.

[jonathane]

@mykle1 will give it a go, thanks

[kdavis]

I just got magic mirror downloaded but when i launch it it gives me an error
“WARNING! Can not find a config file” then launches and says “MagicMirror2 ‘Please create a config file’ if you have a config file use javascript linter to validate your file” Pls help!:frowning_face:

[lavolp3]

@kdavis Have you done what is described in the README and copied the config.js.sample to a config.js file?

[sdetweil]

@kdavis the instructions say to copy the sample over to config. js in the config folder

[kdavis]

@sdetweil thank you for the advice. My raspberry decided to turn off and i lost the program. Ill try your advice once it downloads again.

[kdavis]

Thank you @lavolp3 and @sdetweil …IT WORKS!!!