Why aren’t you just hitting the mirror with a web browser? The browser will render the mirror more-or-less exactly as it will be displayed. You won’t be able to use any module with a peripheral, such as a microphone or IP camera. But for layout, fonts and the like it will speed things up immeasurably.

Add your computer to the ipWhiteList and restart the mirror process. Point your browser at http://[mirror ip address]:8080

@roxx - Try installing the MMM-RemoteControl module and the associated mobile phone app. It should let you change/install all sorts of things from your phone.

I don’t think Win8.1 enables RDP, so I think you would have to install either a VNC or SSH host on your tablet. That would let you have access to the file system from your regular computer to change your config.js. You can just hit your tablet from the web browser on your desktop/laptop in order to evaluate the config. Once you make a change, just refresh your browser.

@justjim1220 He already got that one.

@dariocas - First, check to see if anything pm2 related still exists on your Pi: type pm2 status all. If you get a table in reply, then pm2 is there, you just need to configure it.

If you get “command not found” then you’ll need to install pm2 manually: npm install pm2 -g. Once that finishes, you’ll want to initalize pm2 with pm2 startup. It will do a mess of things and at the end it will output a command for you to enter. This is important! You need to copy that command from the output and paste it into the command line. That will enable pm2 to start when the Pi reboots.

Give it a go and let us know what you find.

@blake_northrup Yikes. It looks like something went wrong with your Node installation. Thankfully, you’re not the first person to encounter this. There’s already a thread on this forum discussing it.

@alainchiasson said in MM2 my first try:

The initial script failed on dependancies and depracated packages. Just could not get it to work.

The installation script hasn’t been updated to handle some of the changes in the latest version of Raspbian. I would ignore it and follow the steps for a manual installation.

Looking at your screenshot, pm2 was already running the mirror software when you gave it the start command. That’s probably why you received the ELIFCYCLE error. If you want to stop pm2 from monitoring/restarting the magic mirror, enter pm2 stop 0. Then you can run npm start in the MagicMirror folder and monitor the output.

When you say “I can’t get to the desktop” is that because the magic mirror interface is taking up the screen, or you are at the command line and the desktop interface isn’t running. I’m guessing that your problem is that you’re at the command line and you’re not seeing the desktop (based upon your mention of running startx. That leads me to conclude that your pi is not booting into the desktop when you start it up. That needs to change.

Somewhere in your raspi-config menu will be the option to boot to desktop or boot to CLI (command line interface). You need to change that so that you boot to desktop. When you’re looking at the mirror interface, Ctrl+q will close the interface and get you back to the desktop.

Just be warned: if pm2 is monitoring your mirror, it will notice that something has closed the magic mirror interface and it will restart it again. Ctrl+Alt+t will give you a terminal window and you can enter pm2 stop 0 to stop that behavior.

@kellogg76 - With the latest update of Raspbian, the installation script has not kept up with the changes. I would try a manual install instead.

You’ve already deleted the folder, so run:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
cd MagicMirror
npm install
npm start

Let us know if you hit any errors.

@Mykle1 - They were included in previous Raspbian distributions. Ever since about December or so, the installation script hasn’t been working.

@AndrewS097 - As another option, there are a couple people on here who have created frameless mirrors. It gives a very modern look which is right in line with the technology.