Hi,

I found an old R-Pi 1b I had laying around, and thought it might be neat to play with a MM setup. However, after checking around online, it sounds like this unit might not be able to run MagicMirror due to Software limitations. Can anyone confirm that?

If that’s the case, what is the oldest/cheapest Pi that I can use to run MM without any issues? This is just for playing around so I don’t want to go buy a brand new Pi. Can I use a Pi 2 or 3? Any reason to go newer vs older?

Thanks!

I thought Noobs was just an easy installer. I chose Raspbian Full from the Noobs menu and thought I was just getting Raspbian. I’ll go get straight Raspbian and see what happens.

Does it matter if I get Raspbian Lite, Raspbian Desktop or Raspbian Desktop w/recommended software?

I’m trying to install MM by following this guide:
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/236/complete-setup-tutorial/6

After running the bash command to actually install it, it ends with this error:
Cloning MagicMirror Done!
Installing dependencies …
bash: line 112: npm: command not found
Unable to install dependencies!

I saw some things onlien that said to try it again a couple times but that didn’t help. Also saw something about going into the MM folder and running npm start but that doesn’t work either.

I installed the latest Noobs Full version so don’t know if something is missing or what.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!