@sdetweil I am really confused buddy.

lets start again please. I install mm using the script, what do I do next? do I need to worry about pm2? I suppose installing using the script installs MM as the server on the raspberry pi?

@sdetweil what is server mode and client mode? I dont understand the difference. Can you please explain? thanks.

@sdetweil yeah it returned nothing.

so shall I follow your script i.e. https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10171/anyone-want-to-try-updated-installer
and reinstall MagicMirror?

Do I have to worry about installing pm2? will Magic Mirror run automatically if I was to reboot my raspberry? etc?

to be fair I want to install and run Magic Mirror on my raspberry. I suppose that is server mode? and not client mode? whats the difference sorry ?

@sdetweil right ok make sense.

to be fair the instrcutions on github on installing MagicMirror are little confusing as the installation script asks you if you want to use pm2 and when you say yes it should automatically run magicmirror via pm2.

however there is this link (https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror) on the github explaining how to auto starting the magic mirror. And when you follow this link you end up having two instances of magic mirror on pm2 i.e. MagicMirror and mm. Thats confusing!

Do I still have to follow the autostarting magicmirror link? or is the install script sufficient?

@sdetweil I suppose I would look stupid to tell you that at the moment I have not connected my rpi 4b to any display. Could that be answer?

Hi People

I have just installed magic mirror using the script provided on the github on my new Raspberry Pi 4b+.

I followed the pm2 and autostart method. However magicmirror keeps on restarting itself every 2-3 seconds.

I stopped it using pm2 stop Magicmirror and went onto the MagicMirror directory and manually tried to start it by this command “npm start dev”. I get the same errors as before when I check my pm2 logs MagicMirror. These are:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start dev

> magicmirror@2.9.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh "dev"


(electron:2910): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:16:40.324: cannot open display: :0
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.9.0 start: `sh run-start.sh "dev"`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.9.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-12-19T14_16_40_381Z-debug.log

The xxxxx-debug.log file contains the following:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'start', 'dev' ]
2 info using npm@6.13.4
3 info using node@v10.18.0
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.9.0~prestart: magicmirror@2.9.0
6 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.9.0~start: magicmirror@2.9.0
7 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.9.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.9.0~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.9.0~start: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror
10 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.9.0~start: Args: [ '-c', 'sh run-start.sh "dev"' ]
11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.9.0~start: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.9.0~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.9.0 start: `sh run-start.sh "dev"`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:198:13)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.9.0
15 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
16 verbose Linux 4.19.75-v7l+
17 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "start" "dev"
18 verbose node v10.18.0
19 verbose npm  v6.13.4
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error magicmirror@2.9.0 start: `sh run-start.sh "dev"`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.9.0 start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Can someone please help me?

Thanks.

@Fozi sorry to be a constant pain but what are your thoughts on using a led TV instead of the VA monitor?

@Fozi thanks alot. Cant wait to see your updates.

Amazing well done buddy @Fozi

Quick question do you recommend ips panel over va panel for magic mirror?

Finally how is your 2nd magic mirror coming along? Are you using va panel for this?

Thanks.

@teitlebot any news on this?