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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    Can't get MM to start, says it can't find electron, then electron won't start

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      jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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      @sdetweil do I do npm install in pi or magic mirror?

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        sdetweil @jmartin1009
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        @jmartin1009 magigcmirror… u are installing the dependencies for that app

        Sam

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          jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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          @sdetweil still says

          electron: not found
          

          Could this be because it says that node_modules is missing? I did both npm install and npm install electron@3.0.10 in MagicMirror.

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            sdetweil @jmartin1009
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            @jmartin1009 npm install from inside the magicmirror folder should have created node_modules (thats its (npm) job)

            erase MagicMirror folder,
            download again
            and then cd MagicMirror and then npm install

            Sam

            How to add modules

            learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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              jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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              @sdetweil another error, it says

              npm ERR! file /home/pi/MagicMirror/package.json
              npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
              npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse json
              npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near ' '
              npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse package. json data.
              npm ERR! JSON.parse package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
              
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                sdetweil @jmartin1009
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                @jmartin1009 did u download the MagicMirror folder over again?

                Sam

                How to add modules

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                  jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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                  @sdetweil yes I deleted the contents of the old folder and changed the name and redownloaded MagicMirror

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                    sdetweil @jmartin1009
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                    @jmartin1009 ok, from the /home/pi folder lets start again

                    cd ~
                    
                    rm -rf whatever_the_old_folder_name_is
                    rm -rf MagicMirror
                    
                    git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
                    
                    cd MagicMirror
                    npm install
                    

                    Sam

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                      jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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                      @sdetweil okay I did all of that and it said it cloned and everthing, and then it rebooted during the install, now what? lol

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                        sdetweil @jmartin1009
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                        @jmartin1009 should not reboot

                        Sam

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                          jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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                          @sdetweil oh it reboots everytime I install magicmirror, how do I prevent this? because it always reboots like 1/3 of the way through the progress bar and it always did it so I thought it was normal lol can I stop this? I have a pi 3+ btw

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                            jmartin1009 @jmartin1009
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                            @jmartin1009 it also does that everytime I try to install electron so maybe that’s why it isn’t working :confused: is there any fix for this?

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                              sdetweil
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                              Sorry, I do not know. Mine never reboots.

                              How big is your memory card?

                              Sam

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                                jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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                                @sdetweil 32 gb

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                                  jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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                                  @sdetweil I believe u figured out why it was restarting, a common cause of it is lack of power, and some person had problems with their keyboard drawing too much power so I unplugged it and it went all the way through without rebooting, but I still got some issues, im left with

                                  Installing dependencies ...
                                  npm WARN deprecated time-grunt@2.0.0: Deprecated because Grunt is practically unmaintained. Move on to something better. This package will continue to work with Grunt v1, but it will not receive any updates.
                                  npm WARN deprecated nomnom@1.8.1: Package no longer supported. Contact support@npmjs.com for more info.
                                  npm WARN tarball cached data for async@~1.5.2 (sha1-7GphrlZIDAw8skHJVhjiCJL5Zyo=) seems to be corrupted. Refreshing cache.
                                  npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.10.1 requires a peer of stylelint@^9.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
                                  npm WARN acorn-jsx@5.0.1 requires a peer of acorn@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
                                  
                                  npm ERR! path /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/coffeescript/bin/coffee
                                  npm ERR! code ENOENT
                                  npm ERR! errno -2
                                  npm ERR! syscall chmod
                                  npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/coffeescript/bin/coffee'
                                  npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
                                  npm ERR! enoent
                                  
                                  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
                                  npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-02-20T04_31_21_244Z-debug.log
                                  Unable to install dependencies!
                                  
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                                    sdetweil @jmartin1009
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                                    @jmartin1009 I think u need to restart the install

                                    Erase the node_modules folder, and do it again

                                    Sam

                                    How to add modules

                                    learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                                      jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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                                      @sdetweil I erased node_modules and reinstalled magicmirror and got this

                                      Cloning MagicMirror Done!
                                      Installing dependencies ...
                                      npm WARN registry Unexpected warning for https://registry.npmjs.org/: Miscellaneous Warning ENODATA: Cache input stream was empty
                                      npm WARN registry Using stale package data from https://registry.npmjs.org/ due to a request error during revalidation.
                                      npm ERR! code EINTEGRITY
                                      npm ERR! errno EINTEGRITY
                                      npm ERR! Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://registry.npmjs.org/feedme: Integrity verification failed for sha512-neorTWnU+xIGoFGw5xKt8oa6Zrp4OIAdLKdTJkmTvESrU1kHYWBEQbxKaFtPAPPX7OiREkBnp0E0/gPN4QnmQg== (/home/pi/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/9d/ea/2b4d69d4fb1206a051b0e712adf286ba66ba7838801d2ca753264993bc44ab53590761604441bc4a685b4f00f3d7ece891124067a74134fe03cde109e642)
                                      
                                      npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
                                      npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-02-20T17_49_38_341Z-debug.log
                                      Unable to install dependencies!
                                      

                                      What do I do now?

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                                        sdetweil
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                                        from the /hom/pi folder do

                                        rm -rf .npm
                                        cd MagicMirror
                                        rm -rf node_modules
                                        npm install
                                        

                                        Sam

                                        How to add modules

                                        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                                          jmartin1009 @sdetweil
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                                          @sdetweil I am now given this, what do I do next?

                                          MagicMirror installation successful!
                                          
                                          > magicmirror@2.6.0 install-fonts /home/pi/MagicMirror
                                          > cd fonts && npm install
                                          
                                          added 1 package from 1 contributor and audited 1 package in 5.243s
                                          found 0 vulnerabilities
                                          
                                          npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.10.1 requires a peer of stylelint@^9.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
                                          npm WARN acorn-jsx@5.0.1 requires a peer of acorn@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
                                          
                                          added 930 packages from 1367 contributors and audited 2433 packages in 160.197s
                                          found 23 vulnerabilities (8 low, 14 moderate, 1 high)
                                            run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
                                          
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                                            sdetweil @jmartin1009
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                                            @jmartin1009 if your mirror is not accessible from the internet I would not worry about these vulnerabilities.

                                            Sam

                                            How to add modules

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