@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?

@idoodler Thanks for that advice, I have forked the original MagicMirror repo, but no idea how to merge scripts on github…

@aidandon I commented on the other post; not sure if you have solved already. Did you install using my github repo? If so, the problem is that my pm2_MagicMirror.json file is looking for a file called startMagicMirror.sh and not mmstart.sh, so it won’t know to run your mmstart.sh file.

Edit: if you have this working now, can you mark the post as solved.

@aidandon you will only need to cd MagicMirror and run node server only immediately after first install if you want it straight away. Otherwise when you reboot it will go automatically (after about a 1 minute or so wait)

@ramez Thanks Ramez, I was hoping someone might say that; don’t know who is the contributors to the main repository. Happy for a link to be passed, or for my repo to be placed back in the MM repo.

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

@rgatlin Did that work for you?

if now working, can you mark the post as solved please :)

no worries. if you want to have a bit more control over it, you can execute each line of RaspberryPi0.sh (minus the echo requests) directly in the terminal.

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)

I believe the issue is that there are elements of nodejs that don’t get installed correctly using npm on the pi zero. Attached is a shell script that should do it from a fresh Raspbian Stretch Install. I put all the files in the home directory (~) and it all distributes itself from there by running RaspberryPi0.sh
Let me know if that helps!

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