When you mean upgrade everything what does that all mean. Just software updates or a whole new raspberry pi (im using a 3B i think)? If it is just software could I be pointed in the direction of how to upgrade everything?

If I need a new pi I think I’ll be alright setting everything up again. Would it be worth getting a 5 or is a 4 more than plenty. Or is the SD card all I need.

Thanks for the guidance!

Bear with me, I have no coding experience aside from setting up my mirror 2+ years ago.

I went and updated my raspberry pi as well as the MM software, and when I ran the npm start command I got an error “module ansis not found”.

I read up on what that meant and what I found was that my node/npm were out of date. I looked into how to updating them to their latest version but I haven’t been successful. Even worse, when I try the node -v or npm -v command I get an odd message here:

node: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6: version ‘GLIBCXX_3.4.29’ not found

My guess is I don’t have them anymore? I tried installing a new node/npm but I can’t seem to figure out any instructions. I was successful in installing something called node version modular (nvm) so I think that could help me, but I may be at the limit of my knowledge.

I’m hoping someone here has a better idea of what I can do to get me back to something that works. I would be very grateful if any instructions are in the form of what exactly to type in the terminal lol.

Thank you!

@sdetweil

sorry for the late reply.

for lsb_release -a:
No LSB modules are available
Release 11

for uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 6.1.21-v7+ #1642

Not sure if the other info given was relevant. Got a codename with the lsb and a date with the uname

Hello,

I’ve had issues with the monitor not turning off using modules like MMM-Remote-Control and MMM-AlexaControl.

I can’t explain the root of the problem, because both modules worked fine until one day they didn’t. It’s an odd situation because I am able to open the Remote-Control website and access everything, update modules, etc. but specifically when I try to turn off the monitor power it doesn’t do anything. Similarly with the AlexaControl, I can forget the mirror and add it again within the Alexa App no issue, but the app shows the mirror as off and there is no control that way either.

I’m far from a coding expert as this is the only thing I’ve ever done, but any help as to why these modules aren’t working would help. As far as I know, the module configs are correct and everything is up to date. I moved the Pi off the mirror to a different one to test and the monitor power is the only thing that doesn’t work. Could the issue be with the main config? Anything helps.

If it could be as simple as to uninstalling and reinstalling those modules, would someone be able to link a guide that way? I haven’t installed or uninstalled anything in over a year and I most definitely would mess it up.

Thanks!

Bear with me, I built mine a year ago and am just now running into some problems and am trying to relearn everything…

Had an issue with a module, tried updating everything. Somehow I screwed it up to where it said the node_modules/electron needed to be deleted and reinstalled.

Deleted it and ran npm install (I read that would reinstall the electron node_module). Here I got errors where I needed to rename folders within the node_modules. Seemingly I’m stuck where I try and rename these folders to match what the terminal says, but it gives me an error that it already exists. Here is where I gave up.

Does anything with experience with this have suggestions on where to go from here? I am half-tempted to uninstall MagicMirror and just go from scratch again. (I don’t even know how to uninstall it)