@sdetweil
Hi Sam,
That’s indeed what it said: “Installation failed. This probably isn’t a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3…”
or something like that.
But okay… I’ll try and do it manualy then. Hope that works for me :face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat: …
Getting sweaty hands already just thinking about that…
But hey…It’s not working now anyway…so what have I got to loose!?:nerd_face: :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:

I just came across Mykle1’s guide for installing MM2 on a 32bit Win7 laptop.
I still have a license key for Windows laying around somewere so I have a backup in case MM2 realy can’t run on x86 Raspberry Pi Desktop… but ofcourse I hope it can run on it! :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

Hi guys,

Last week I installed Raspberry Pi Desktop on an old netbook (Acer Aspire One D250) I had laying around. And though rasbian is working just fine I can’t install MM2 on it.
The reason I would like to install MM2 on the laptop is to have a platform to test various modules on before installing them on my actual mirror.

Can anyone explain to me why I can’t install it? Or are there way’s to make it work?

" Just comment under my video"

I just did. :smiling_face: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

@thedoorsfanatic
I have seen this modules but I thought it was a inscreen module and not a remote controle via a web interface.
I currently have MMM-Pages to show different modules on different pages. Like on your smartphone. I use 2 ultrasonic sensors to move left and right through the pages.
Have the hardware al in place in the frame since last week and now I’m setting up the MM2 again … because I lost/misplaced my original SD-card… :confounded_face: :confounded_face:
What HAT are you using for the voice control by the way?

@thedoorsfanatic WOW!!! :fearful_face: :fearful_face: WAIT…WHAT???:dizzy_face: :dizzy_face:
That’s you in the youtube vid? And you controle your mirror using a tablet with a webinterface?? HOW??? I want that too!

@Sean :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat: It’s just I’m not that familiar with doing everything via the command shell. Installing modules via the shell that I can do.
But I haven’t changed the config.js via the shell yet.
is it simple as: “sudo nano /MagicMirror/Config/config.js”?

@Sean Nice!
But it still is commandline correct? No desktop view of the pi.
Seeing this I like to have 1 program that connects to my pi that on a laptop can show me the Pi’s desktop (remote desktop) but on my Android smartphone uses the commandline. Teamviewer has only the remote desktop…and that’s on a smartphone not great. But using the commandline completely is at the moment to much for me.
I do use JuiceSSH on my smartphone When I’m at home) for simple things like checking folders and stuff. But to customize the MM2 I do would like to have a desktop enviroment for now.
But I’ll have a look at this option as well! Thanks for pointing it out! :grinning_face: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:

@Sean that dataplicity is only commandline right?
And they also have an app for my smartphone (Android) I see.
Does that mean I can control my Pi (via commandline) from any place in the world?
Without port forwarding? Or does this require port forwarding?

@sdetweil
I didn’t know that Teamviewer could run on a Pi!?!? :astonished_face:
I’ll look into it!
Thanks for the heads-up! :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:

Hi everybody,

I would like to install modules and change the config file from my office or when I’m at my parents house.
Can this be done by “Remote Desktop Connection” that is part of my Windows Enterprice edition? I already can access my Pi this way from within my network (so at home). But I also like to use it when I’m outside of the home network.

I mention Remote Desktop because I’m more of a desktop user then a commandline writer. I’m still learning :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

Is this just a matter of port forwarding and use a No-IP.com account or is it more complicated? And then the biggest concern: is it a save methode???

@Mykle1 THANKS!!! :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:
This is exactly what I needed!

@htilburgs unfortunately not yet!
I made the fresh install her at work and the raspberry can’t acces the companies network ( I can see it but can’t select it) so I had to use the open network instead.
So I couldn’t set up SSH … and I didn’t thought of it either…:disappointed_but_relieved_face:
But I will do it at home… :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: but in order to do that I need to have a clear acces to the system without MM2 constanly starting :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

On my lost sd-card I also had SSH working. I could acces it via Putty, JuiceSSH (android) and the Windows “Remote Desktop Connection”.

Hi All,
this afternoon I made a fresh install on a new sd-card because I can’t remember were I left my first sd-card…:worried_face: … Luckly I have my config file saved to a usb drive before losing it…

So…now I have the latest MM2 version and it’s working just fine in “factory mode” but now I want to ad modules to it again… however I have said “Yes” to autostarting the mirror. And that is what it does…but when I press + after about 10 seconds MM2 is starting again. So I hardly can do anything without constanly having to closing the MM2 after 10 seconds :dizzy_face: :dizzy_face: :dizzy_face:

Can I pauze this autostart somehow? Or is there an other way to bypass it without disabling it completely and reinstalling it after I’m done (or is that just a simple command?)?
(I’ve disabled it before and couldn’t get it to run afterwards…:face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat: :face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat: …)

Did anybody got this MMM-Simple_Swipe module to run “right out of the box”?
I’ve installed it but it’s not working. My guess (offcourse) would be that I’ve done something wrong!
I’m excluding things by asking around.
So If anybody (beside the 2 creators :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: ) got it working this would help me to determine if the problem is with my setup.
(I did have contact with one of the module makers but I don’t want to push them and offcourse… they have a life to so I don’t want to harass them :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat: )

UPDATE:
SUCCES!!! YES!!!:smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes: :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:
I just had to install npm in the MagicMirror folder!
My test bed for the MagicMirror is running again! :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:

UPDATE:
Found that npm i electron in the folder “MagicMirror” does the trick.
But now it “ENOENT” that’s causing problems!

I’m starting to get angry!!!

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ git pull
Already up-to-date.
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.6.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

run-start.sh: 4: run-start.sh: electron: not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.6.0 start: `sh run-start.sh`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
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 WARN Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing, did you mean to install?

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-01-17T22_37_37_361Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ 

Now it can’t find Electron. :face_with_steam_from_nose: :face_with_steam_from_nose: :angry_face:

NOPE! It’s not due to poor geust network at work. I still can’t install the Dependencies.
I do have Node because node -v is resulting in v8.11.1.
but it can’t find npm. so I’ll install npm meself.

@sandy2503 I’ve used: Raspbian Stretch with desktop and recommended software.
and I’m just up and running again. Meaning I’ve Rasbian setup on my Pi 3A+ and typing this in the Chromium browser.
First I’ll try to install the MagicMirror. Yesterday I installed it at work via an open network (guest login)
and at random times one is thrown out of it. So that could also be an issue.
Now I’m at home in my own network.
So fingers crossed!