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      dwleo
      last edited by

      Re: MM booting to black

      Well, all was going pretty good. I added some modules and removed some. Had Carousel, NHL and NFL working well. Almost.
      Then I changed the Calendar to another module, didn’t like the look so went back to calendar and everything went into the toilet. It was booting to black so I went back into it from my laptop and checked the config.js file and could not find an error. Copied it to Jshint and it gave this:
      One undefined variable
      111 module
      That was in the last line:
      /*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
      if (typeof module !== “undefined”) {module.exports = config;}
      But that is the same in the sample and my backup.
      So I deleted the config.js and renamed the backup as config.js. No change.
      I stopped the process with:
      pm2 stop all and got:
      │ Name │ mode │ status │ ↺ │ cpu │ memory │
      ├─────────────┼──────┼─────────┼───┼─────┼────────┤
      │ MagicMirror │ fork │ stopped │ 0 │ 0% │ 0 B │

      I ran npm config:check and got:
      pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/config $ npm run config:check

      magicmirror@2.6.0 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
      node tests/configs/check_config.js

      Checking file… /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
      Your configuration file doesn’t contain syntax errors :)

      So now I am not sure which direction to go.

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        sdetweil
        last edited by sdetweil

        start the MM in debug mode

        npm start dev
        

        then select the console tab… look for errors (red text)

        altho usually black screen is caused by failures in the node modules

        so, minimze MM, alt-spacebar, n
        and look at errors in the console window (used above for npm start

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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          dwleo @sdetweil
          last edited by

          @sdetweil

          pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm start dev
          npm ERR! missing script: start

          That’s what I got.

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            sdetweil @dwleo
            last edited by

            @dwleo well, you have to be IN the MM folder

            cd MagicMirror
            

            Sam

            How to add modules

            learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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              dwleo @sdetweil
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              @sdetweil
              WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: Cannot find module ‘moment-timezone’

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                dwleo @dwleo
                last edited by

                Sometimes I feel like a real noob. Anyway the config.js file is there right where it always has been.

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                  sdetweil @dwleo
                  last edited by sdetweil

                  @dwleo

                  from the MM folder run

                  node tests/configs/check_config.js
                  

                  and work thru the errors from top to bottom

                  rerunning as needed

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                    sdetweil @dwleo
                    last edited by sdetweil

                    @dwleo yes, but there is a syntax error from all the editing you have done

                    make a rule,

                    1 change at a time,
                    AND save the working config.js before u edit

                    Sam

                    How to add modules

                    learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                      dwleo @sdetweil
                      last edited by

                      @sdetweil
                      Yeah, you are right. (sigh)
                      Anyway I ran it and got this:
                      pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ node tests/configs/check_config.js
                      Checking file… /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
                      Your configuration file doesn’t contain syntax errors :)

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                        sdetweil @dwleo
                        last edited by

                        @dwleo ok, then you have a module name wrong, or u deleted it

                        Cannot find module ‘moment-timezone’

                        OR, you installed a module, but didn’t finish ITS install, by going to ITS folder and running npm install

                        when a module uses other modules, (some not used by base MM), you have to do a manual step to install ITS dependencies

                        so, I would look thru the modules u might have just installed, and edit the package.json file in each and look for moment-timezone… if its there, then u probably need to run npm install in that folder

                        Sam

                        How to add modules

                        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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