@cowboysdude Possibly something like the Zotac Zbox? It’s probably overkill. And at that price… it’s more expensive than the rest of your hardware.

@tidus5 The OpenGL drivers are experimental. I think we’re pushing the Pi - even the RPi3 - to its absolute limit with this type of rendering. A stable power supply isn’t the issue. It’s an issue of raw computing power.

@devinhedge said in Clean installation... fails left and right:

Config info:

RasPi 3b+
8GB SD card
Running on Rasbian Stretch Lite
Attempting to run using sample config.js
No other installed modules at this point
Attempting to run as either server/client or server only

Well, I think I’ve detected your problem. From the GitHub page for the Magic Mirror project:

Note that you will need to install the latest full version of Raspbian, don’t use the Lite version.

So. My advice is to pull your SD card and flash the full desktop version of Raspbian Stretch. I don’t think you need the “recommended software” version, but you do need the desktop.

Edited to add: It seems others have similar problems with the latest version of Raspian. Apparently they changed something in the base images. Anyhow, follow this advice and you should be able to get back on track.

I believe I have it cracked. The white screen was due to MMAL Motion crashing whilst writing a frame to disk. When Motion crashes, it apparently jacks up the video output.

My current solution is to use PM2 to monitor the motion process and restart it when necessary. I’m testing now. If it works for a few more days I’ll report back.

Adding motion to PM2: pm2 start motion. Be sure that the motion is not configured to run as a daemon (first option in config file).

Yes, but it’s not recommended. Those messages are there in case there is a problem during boot.

But if you really want it… Stack Exchange to the rescue. If that doesn’t do it for you, some quality time with Google and “Raspbery Pi silent boot” should get you there.

Edit: It seems that someone on YouTube has also done this.

@Eunanibus - Well, since you’re asking… these are the things I remember from the original code that I would love to see implemented.

• Specify locations to be linked by an arc.
• Specify colors used for the pins
• Specify colors used for the arcs
• An updateInterval to control when to refresh the globe w/ the build animation
• A true/false switch to display the default pins.
• Alternately, an array for unlabeled pins that will replace the defaults if you provide it.

Thanks!

Done. Thanks.

@AnyKey It looks like you can. A quick perusal of the Synology forums found that a few users have been using Nodejs on their devices. Off the top of my head, the process to manually install MagicMirror on a non-Raspberry system is:

1. install Nodejs & NPM (here’s a hint)
2. Install git and clone the repository.
3. Run npm install in the MagicMirror folder.
4. Start node and it will provide a webserver.

That should get you started. You may have to switch the port that Node uses for the web server, but that’s trivial.

For quick reference, the guide to using pm2 to automatically start the mirror process can be found here.

I remember having trouble getting the UI displayed on my Raspberry PI 2, but I can’t remember what I did specifically to get it up and running. Assuming you are using a keyboard & mouse connected directly to the Pi, try this:

• Start the Pi’s graphical interface (if it is not already running) by entering startx. You should eventually see a desktop, with a mouse cursor, menu, etc.
• Open a terminal window using the Menu in the upper left.
• In that terminal window, type cd ~/MagicMirror followed by npm start.

That should at least give you your interface. If you are using SSH to issue commands to your mirror remotely, try the following:

• Once you log into the Pi, navigate to the Magic Mirror directory like so: cd ~/MagicMirror
• Start the magic mirror and specify that you want it to display on the monitor attached to the Pi: DISPLAY=:0 npm start

It has been a while since I was playing around with my RPi 2. I think these will help.