better reboot after installing new npm and node versions

@lkthomas said in first installation on RPi3 failed:

npm ERR! node -v v8.11.1

Also try to upgrade node, e.g. via the small program “n”

npm install -g n
n stable

@lkthomas said in first installation on RPi3 failed:

npm -v 1.4.21

your npm version is very old.
Try to first update npm via

npm install -g npm@latest

@bhepler Thanks! Looks good, especially the beard :-D

Don’t understand why it wont work as fluent on my device.

@bhepler Is it fluent or would you say it is lagging a bit?
That’s a bit non-scientific now so a video would help most but I 'd undterstand if you don’t want to go through the trouble of uploading a video.

I have a Pi 3b+ with MM v2.6.0 and all else like above, but it is lagging too much for me to enjoy it.

I’ll try running it on Chrome locally as described above. But I don’t like this workaround.

@cowboysdude
Thanks dude :-), will try it out later today

I am still having an Unhandled promise rejection:

UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 13): TypeError: Cannot read property 'refs' of undefined

My config is completely stripped down now as the new Readme suggests. No config entries.
Loading message is in German which is my language.
However translation still does not seem to work here.

Any suggestions?

@hco125
Time to go do some debugging. Ican imagine noone will be able to help you with the information given.

Please do the following:
Start the mirror in dev mode

npm start dev

OR

Open the mirror webpage on another browser (MIRRORIP:8080), press F12 for dev mode

In both cases, try to find error messages referring to this module and post them here.

@scoller I think only .ics calendars work but not sure.

You can also use an ics calendar from google and try that.

• Go into your google calendar webpage.
• Click on the three dots on one of the calendars in the left bar (the one with your name preferably) and then click on options.
• Scroll down and find your “private address in ical format”.

Use that address in your config.

@scoller It would have been better to delete the middle part.
The tyoe of ending is important. Does the url end in a basic.ics?

Also can you please go into the console type in

pm2 logs

and give us the output that is referring to the calendar module?

I had the same issue just recently and can confirm that switching to full KMS solves the issue.
Don’t know the reason for this however.

@rosenm Same problem for me.
Only occured on my MM with the fake kms driver activated.
I don’t know the reason yet.

@sean said in Config.fs:

comma missed.

A classic!

@scoller said in Config.fs:

. I have also run the code through the jshint and it says alot of things that idon’t understand :). PLEASE can someone help me

Well for that we’d need to know what jshint says :-)
Can you please post your config.js here (WITHOUT sensitive data please)

And for the next time:
In the magicmirror directory you can put in

npm run config:check

and it will also give you the errors in the config.
You can then look up the lines using e.g.

sudo nano -c config/config.js

which will add the columns to nano

@bhepler That would be great thanks. Also, if you have one of the drivers enabled and what relosution you’re running.

@cstein6486 said in Syncing Multiple Calendars:

I can’t even get the default calendar to sync, let alone an iCloud calendar that I changed to private and had the link generated. It’s my understanding that calendars don’t necessarily need to end in .ics to be used. Currently, the calendar section has keeps saying “No Upcoming Events,” when there are a few things that should definitely be populated on there.

As far as I know they need an .ics format for being properly used.
However, when you see something like that you will have to go for a bug hunt. One possible way is this.

1. Deactivate all modules except for the calendar.

2. Load up your mirror

3. Go into the console (ideally via ssh, I hope you know what I’m talking about) and put in

pm2 logs

Look in the error logs what they are saying referring to the calendar module and post it here.

OR

Load the mirror in an external browser (via MIRRORIP:8080) and go into the developer’s console (often by pressing F12) and look for error messages referring to the calendar there.

Furthermore, not entirely sure where to add “Maximum Number of Days” so that I can see far-out holidays. Not like Jerry Garcia far out, but like, deep in the future. You know what I mean! I’d like to see events 60 days out.

It’s all described in the github repository
You can include the maximumNumberOfDays in the config. If you want different config options for different calendars you need to set up the module more than once.

Lastly, I don’t understand the significance of “symbol” for the calendars. That’s why I just named my second calendar “Carl,” instead of something else like the oddly-named sample calendar “calendar-check-o”

The symbol is used for the so-called “Font Awesome” API, an API giving you pictures as font. It really is awesome.
The reason it is called so weired is that JS takes the string to pick up the respective symbol from the font awesome api.
Lookie here!

Happy New Year everyone!

I need to bring one neverending topic back again here:

I tried to use MMM-Snow recently with a Pi 3B+ and stretch installed.
Currently I have today’s MM 2.6.0 with electron 2.0.x installed, but I have tried electron v1.4.15 as well.

The snowflakes are lagging on my mirror, not falling fluently. If I use the web version from a laptop it’s fluent, so it should be a browser issue.
Config:

    {
        module: 'MMM-Snow',
        position: 'fullscreen_above',
        config: { // See 'Configuration options' for more information.
            flakeCount: 40,
            theme: "winter"
        }
    },

I have tried the kms driver, the fake kms driver (which gives me a flickering screen after some time for some odd reasons), and no kms driver at all. No recognizable change with regards to the snowflake performance.

Is there any chance for fluent animations using electron at the moment that I have overseen?
As far as I understand none of the electron versions work properly with hardware support. Is that true?

@joern You could install a module like MMM-Tools that shows you the used RAM and CPU Temperature.

There’s also ways to read out the current temperature or used RAM on the Pi using the console.
You could look for increasing CPU temperatures ( > 75°C) after some time.

@dazza120 please go into the console, type in

pm2 logs

and post the error referring to the calendar module.