Problem is host os. I downloaded latest raspbian buster image and followed guide from the link. Works like charm in docker container and display picture to host hdmi.

Maybe the problem is host os, not a container?

@lpt2007 said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

Scenario 2: Using docker on the raspberry pi and starting the magicmirror on the screen of the pi.

I will post results back.

Again without success :(

Error:
(electron:41): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: unix:0.0

Thanks for your time @sdetweil :)

I will first try docker container from link you posted before. One of scenario is about:

Scenario 2: Using docker on the raspberry pi and starting the magicmirror on the screen of the pi.

I will post results back.

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

@lpt2007 ok, and why does chrome on the hassos not work?

Maybe I can try to made ha addon with chrome in kiosk mode to see where the problem is?

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

i don’t really understand, as BOTH approaches will require some browser to be running ON the HASSOS image ALL THE TIME… (somewhere)

Container with mm must connect to host display. I made something simmilar with kodi media center in docker container.

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

not the right one

I installed this one:

root@local-mm:/# apt install libdbus-1-3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libdbus-1-3 is already the newest version (1.10.28-0+deb9u1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

yes, u need more libraries loaded into the container…
/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3

This library is already installed.

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

@lpt2007 need more libraries.

I’d run serveronly in the container, and use chromium from outside the container

Thanks, but this is not an option, because I try to use mm as addon for Home Assistant and I use hassos image. The mm will be one of the systems I will use on rpi and I will call them trough ha when I need them.

Any idea what error I posted means?

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

@lpt2007 graphical stuff not loaded in container.

I added needed graphical libraries, now I get this error:

/root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3: no version information available (required by /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron)
/root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdbus-1.so.3: no version information available (required by /root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.10.1 start: `./run-start.sh`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-01-16T19_00_47_796Z-debug.log

@sdetweil said in Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?:

replace the run-start.sh with this one from the next release
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/develop/run-start.sh

I changed run-start.sh file and now I get this error:

> magicmirror@2.10.1 start /root/MagicMirror
> ./run-start.sh
/root/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.10.1 start: `./run-start.sh`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-01-15T11_40_27_011Z-debug.log

I try to run it in docker container with gui on my pi . But when I start it, there is no output to HDMI. MM starts in server mode no matter what I do.

Does magicmirror need minimal X11 to run?

I figured out the error occured when I try to run mm from ssh if I run directly on rpi consol it works?

But I need to find solution to run mm from ssh. How?

npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm info using npm@5.0.3
npm info using node@v8.1.3
npm info lifecycle magicmirror@2.6.0~prestart: magicmirror@2.6.0
npm info lifecycle magicmirror@2.6.0~start: magicmirror@2.6.0

magicmirror@2.6.0 start /opt/magic_mirror
sh run-start.sh

npm info lifecycle magicmirror@2.6.0~start: Failed to exec start script
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.6.0 start: sh run-start.sh
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.6.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /fakehome/root/.npm/_logs/2019-02-10T00_24_58_360Z-debug.log