@sdetweil yes here are the contents of the config folder:

@sdetweil I did this and exported a file out. I then went ahead and ran the MagicMirror for 2 minutes.

Here is the output (same as before):

[09.02.2024 17:44.28.817] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.26.0
[09.02.2024 17:44.28.835] [LOG]   Loading config ...
[09.02.2024 17:44.28.841] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[09.02.2024 17:44.28.848] [LOG]   Loading module helpers ...
[09.02.2024 17:44.28.905] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[09.02.2024 17:44.28.907] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[09.02.2024 17:44.28.909] [LOG]   No helper found for module: helloworld.
[09.02.2024 17:44.28.910] [LOG]   All module helpers loaded.
[09.02.2024 17:44.28.928] [LOG]   Starting server on port 8080 ... 
[09.02.2024 17:44.29.399] [LOG]   Server started ...
[09.02.2024 17:44.29.402] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[09.02.2024 17:44.29.404] [LOG]   Starting module helper: updatenotification
[09.02.2024 17:44.29.405] [LOG]   Sockets connected & modules started ...
[09.02.2024 17:44.29.429] [LOG]   Launching application.
Warning: vkCreateInstance: Found no drivers!
Warning: vkCreateInstance failed with VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER
    at CheckVkSuccessImpl (../../third_party/dawn/src/dawn/native/vulkan/VulkanError.cpp:88)
    at CreateVkInstance (../../third_party/dawn/src/dawn/native/vulkan/BackendVk.cpp:458)
    at Initialize (../../third_party/dawn/src/dawn/native/vulkan/BackendVk.cpp:344)
    at Create (../../third_party/dawn/src/dawn/native/vulkan/BackendVk.cpp:266)
    at operator() (../../third_party/dawn/src/dawn/native/vulkan/BackendVk.cpp:521)

[09.02.2024 17:46.45.217] [LOG]   Shutting down server...
[09.02.2024 17:46.45.219] [LOG]   Stopping module helper: updatenotification
[09.02.2024 17:46.45.221] [LOG]   Node_helpers stopped ...

@sdetweil Wow! Can’t believe it all came down to one line of code (as it always seems to do).

I went ahead and tested adding those other modules and they work! Everything seems to be working great now. I really appreciate all the help and the patience to get through this. Grateful they’re people like you in the community to help! :)

@sdetweil Wow so I’m a bit confused on this but its working. So I ran those commands and just started by running the default config.js from config.js.sample that had been copied over and all the modules worked (including calendar which includes a node_helper.js module).

Whats interesting is when I tried copying the contents of my old config.js over to the new config.js, I actually got the same backend log as before:

[10.02.2024 07:51.49.862] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.26.0
[10.02.2024 07:51.49.873] [LOG]   Loading config ...
[10.02.2024 07:51.49.879] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[10.02.2024 07:51.49.887] [LOG]   Loading module helpers ...
[10.02.2024 07:51.49.944] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[10.02.2024 07:51.49.947] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[10.02.2024 07:51.49.949] [LOG]   No helper found for module: helloworld.
[10.02.2024 07:51.49.950] [LOG]   All module helpers loaded.
[10.02.2024 07:51.49.969] [LOG]   Starting server on port 8080 ...
[10.02.2024 07:51.50.435] [LOG]   Server started ...
[10.02.2024 07:51.50.438] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[10.02.2024 07:51.50.440] [LOG]   Starting module helper: updatenotification
[10.02.2024 07:51.50.441] [LOG]   Sockets connected & modules started ...
[10.02.2024 07:51.50.471] [LOG]   Launching application.

Where as, when only manually editing the config contents copied over from the config.js.sample file, and only enabling the same modules as were being used in my old config (just disabled others), now the output looks like this (which I assume is what were looking for):

[10.02.2024 08:02.54.899] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.26.0
[10.02.2024 08:02.54.909] [LOG]   Loading config ...
[10.02.2024 08:02.54.915] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[10.02.2024 08:02.54.923] [LOG]   Loading module helpers ...
[10.02.2024 08:02.54.925] [LOG]   No helper found for module: clock.
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.227] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.228] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: calendar
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.230] [LOG]   No helper found for module: weather.
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.444] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.446] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.447] [LOG]   All module helpers loaded.
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.463] [LOG]   Starting server on port 8080 ...
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.967] [LOG]   Server started ...
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.970] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: calendar
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.971] [LOG]   Starting node helper for: calendar
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.973] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.975] [LOG]   Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[10.02.2024 08:02.55.977] [LOG]   Sockets connected & modules started ...
[10.02.2024 08:02.56.003] [LOG]   Launching application.
[10.02.2024 08:03.02.349] [LOG]   Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://ics.calendarlabs.com/76/mm3137/US_Holidays.ics - Interval: 604800000
[10.02.2024 08:03.02.626] [LOG]   Create new newsfetcher for url: https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml - Interval: 300000
[10.02.2024 08:03.03.472] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 11 events from https://ics.calendarlabs.com/76/mm3137/US_Holidays.ics.
[10.02.2024 08:03.05.342] [INFO]  Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 24 items.

Granted, there is some other lines that came from the sample js that are included that weren’t in my config, but im still confused on the magic that happened here. Maybe I had a really weird formatting error causing something in the code to be out of scope? Id be curious if you had an idea of why this is the case. It was almost like that old config.js may have been corrupted in some way. Either way, this is a huge step in the right direction (in theory its working).

Im going to try and add back non-default modules 1 by 1 to this new config and update in this post here soon.

@sdetweil Interesting. So it would seem my issue isn’t based with permissions of the config file but something else causing the config file to not be read/synced properly? It is strange that mine is “failing” normally, even though my permissions are correct.

I tried sudo chmod 644 config.js and nothing changed.

I wonder if its worth reinstalling MM at this point? Not sure what your take would be on that.

@sdetweil Yeah sure, the output actually looks the same even though I ran those commands:

jackson@raspberrypi:~/Documents/MagicMirror/config $ ls -laF
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  2 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  9 19:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  2 10:27 ../
-rwxrwxrwx  1 jackson jackson 1998 Feb  9 19:19 config.js*
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 3534 Feb  2 10:27 config.js.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 1024 Feb  2 12:12 .config.js.swp

And wow, its incredible you were able to find that. Thanks so much for the continuous help. Hopefully we are close!

@sdetweil The calendar module still says loading… Everything else is the same as it was. Both logs show exactly the same as well.

@sdetweil Okay I ran both of those commands.

@sdetweil Apologies.

jackson@raspberrypi:~/Documents/MagicMirror/config $ ls -laF
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  2 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  9 19:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  2 10:27 ../
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root    root    1998 Feb  9 19:19 config.js*
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 3534 Feb  2 10:27 config.js.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 1024 Feb  2 12:12 .config.js.swp

@sdetweil Yes, here is the output:

jackson@raspberrypi:~/Documents/MagicMirror/config $ ls -LaF
./  ../  config.js*  config.js.sample  .config.js.swp

@MMRIZE
Yeah I’m not currently port forwarding at all right now and would have no reason to for 8080 anyways. But I really appreciate all your help! I can tell you that when I did a clean install of the Raspberry Pi OS, I have only installed MM and its dependencies.

All my libraries should be up to date. Maybe there is some strange clash going on with my library versions? Maybe I try to go to versions that you guys use (if they’re even different than mine)? Just some thoughts.

I’m glad that we are all at least on the same page of the strangeness going on here. Hopefully a lightbulb will pop up at some point and we can resolve the issue. Thanks again! :)

@MMRIZE
I tried both localhost and the IP of my PI (LAN) and neither resolved the issue. Also, whether it matters or not, changing these also did not remove the WebSocket warning shown in the dev console.