Hi everyone…

After lot’s of tinkering I finally got this to work on a Pi Zero W. I have answered a couple of people in the forum about this, so I thought I would put up a link to my github where I have put in each of the files I used.

Edit:
I have also tried making a single installer script for Pi Zero/2B/3B; if you have both platforms and the time to do it, please run bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ac2799/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)" from the terminal and let me know how you get on… I have tested on the Pi Zero and it appears to work fine but advice or feedback still welcomed.

Edit2:
Here is a pdf guide for the process.

Some people reported difficulties when installing over SSH. The guide does tell you how to do it headless too (TL;DR: use SSH to enable VNC Server using raspi-config && download RealVNC Connect && connect headless using RealVNC Connect/VNC Viewer)

Andrew

I don’t know if those files uploaded…

startMagicMirror.sh: EDIT: I uploaded the wrong code just for this file; changes are a semi colon after line 2 and at the end of line 4; plus the directory has changed from
/home/pi/chromium_start.sh to /home/pi/MagicMirror/PiZero/chromium_start.sh in line 5

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/MagicMirror;
node serveronly &
sleep 30;
sh /home/pi/MagicMirror/PiZero/chromium_start.sh

chromium_start.sh

#!/bin/sh
unclutter &
chromium-browser --start-fullscreen --app http://localhost:8080

pm2_MagicMirror.json

{
  "apps" : [{
    "name"        : "MagicMirror",
    "script"      : "~/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh",
    "watch"       : ["/home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js"]
  }]
}

RaspberryPi0.sh

#!/bin/bash
#Pi Zero Install, largely plagiarised from MagicMirror2's raspberry.sh shell script for Pi2 and Pi3
echo 'Updating Pi'
sudo apt-get update;
echo 'Upgrading Pi'
sudo apt-get upgrade;
sudo apt-get upgrade --fix-missing;

echo 'Downloading node v11.6.0'
curl -o node-v11.6.0-linux-armv6l.tar.gz  https://nodejs.org/dist/v11.6.0/node-v11.6.0-linux-armv6l.tar.gz; #Most up to date recent version
echo 'Extracting node v11.6.0'
tar -xzf node-v11.6.0-linux-armv6l.tar.gz; # extract files
echo 'Extracting node and npm'

cd node-v11.6.0-linux-armv6l/;
sudo cp -R * /usr/local/;
cd ~;
sudo apt install git; sudo apt install unclutter;
echo 'Cloning Magic Mirror'

git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror;
cd MagicMirror;
echo 'Installing Magic Mirror Dependencies'
npx npmc@latest install; npm install acorn@latest; npm install stylelint@latest; npm audit fix;
echo 'Loading default config'

# Use sample config for start MagicMirror
cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js;

#Set the splash screen to be magic mirror
THEME_DIR="/usr/share/plymouth/themes"
sudo mkdir $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror
sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/splash.png $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/splash.png && sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.plymouth $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.plymouth && sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.script $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.script; 
sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R MagicMirror; 
mkdir ~/MagicMirror/PiZero;
sudo mv ~/startMagicMirror.sh ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh;
sudo mv ~/pm2_MagicMirror.json ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/pm2_MagicMirror.json;
sudo mv ~/chromium_start.sh ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/chromium_start.sh;
sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh;
sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/pm2_MagicMirror.json;
sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/PiZero/chromium_start.sh;

# Use pm2 control like a service MagicMirror
sudo npm install -g pm2;
sudo su -c "env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi";
pm2 start /MagicMirror/PiZero/pm2_MagicMirror.json;
pm2 save;
echo 'Magic Mirror should begin shortly'

Takes about an hour depending on how up to date your Raspbian image is… I haven’t silenced/run any of the things in the background so you might get a couple of prompts where you just have to press enter (normally during the apt-get upgrade phase)

@idoodler Great! I think I may have done it! I have tested most of it I think on a Pi Zero W and on a Pi 3B+; is anyone able to check whether any of my changes have affected usability on the Pi 3B and Pi 2 before I submit the pull request?

@cdh1001 thanks, I will amend my guide over the weekend then.

@analogcheep thanks, let me know if yours works and upvote if it is helpful!

@cdh1001 thanks, I will amend my guide over the weekend then.

@cdh1001 please specify tweaks as they might help others.

@big11 I did a test install today, so I’m really not sure what you are doing.

You will notice that the missing dependencies are installed in subsequent steps (e.g. there’s a problem with style lint and acorn. This is then fixed (see where it says + stylelint@9.9.0 and + acorn lower down in your warnings).

This installation is completely different from the MM-Wiki. It does not use sh run-start.sh at all. Therefore there may well be problems.

Can I ask, are you doing your installation over SSH/Telnet? or on the Pi itself? because you keep mentioning ‘locally’ and I just want to make sure I know what you mean by that.

Edit: Also, don’t use npm install in sudo; it should be run as the normal user

@big11 this goes to my forked repo. Are you booting through to the desktop or to the console?

@big11 From what I am reading of your reply, are you booting into command line mode? You should be booting into Desktop AutoLogin from sudo raspi-config | Choose option: Boot Options | Choose option: Desktop / CLI | then Desktop Autologin.

Can you confirm which install script you ran? Did you run the one from ac2799/MagicMirror or ac2799/MagicMirrorPi0Installer?

@12wsx Did you change the default user to be called root? I’m confused as to why your prompt says root@raspberrypi, but the home directory (/home/pi/MagicMirror) is that instead of /home/root/MagicMirror

As I remember, the shell script refers directly to a home drive using the user pi; if you wish to change this on your installation, issue:
EDIT: I just noticed I think you’re running off my installer rather than the forked magic mirror repository that I have been testing more recently. The edits are the same, except instead of being in ~/MagicMirror/installers it’ll be in ~/MagicMirror/PiZero, and the files won’t have Pi0 on the end of their names

sudo nano ~/MagicMirror/installers/startMagicMirror.sh

change the bottom line so instead of pi it is the correct user’s home drive e.g.

sh /home/root/MagicMirror/installers/chromium_startPi0.sh

Also check pm2_MagicMirrorPi0.json and chromium_startPi0.sh in case they also are pointing to the pi user folder.

then do

sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/installers/startMagicMirrorPi0.sh;
sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/installers/pm2_MagicMirrorPi0.json;
sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirror/installers/chromium_startPi0.sh;

to make all the files executable (just in case they aren’t already)

Now run:

sudo su -c "env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi"
pm2 start ~/MagicMirror/installers/pm2_MagicMirrorPi0.json
pm2 save

changing the /home/pi to ensure you are in the correct user.
Then restart and let me know what happens.

That’s the only thing that I can think it could be at the moment

@12wsx straight after installation did you restart the pi zero? It should run, it’s quite a slow start up process though… if you run pm2 show MagicMirror what does it say? It takes a good minute to fire up sometimes…

@dazza120 thanks, did you test my script? I was looking at a single installer that would auto detect 2B/3B Or Zero and install the appropriate script, thereby meaning a single repo for all platforms.

It’s able to detect 3B+ and Zero and does full install for 3B+ and server only for Zero, I don’t have a 3B though to make sure it works on that.

@idoodler I didn’t really understand what was the difference between server only and not. This installs magic mirror, runs it as server only and runs three chromium browser on start-up to display it all… functionally I couldn’t tell the difference, but there might be something I’m missing