for future people who stumble here:
“npm start” was what I was missing to get things started up

I had a weird black electron pop up - realized it was a config file issue - for mine it ended up being a random address in the “address” section above the ipwhite list.

Thanks to Mykle for the help!

magicmirror@2.1.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
sh run-start.sh

Starting MagicMirror: v2.1.1
Loading config …
Loading module helpers …
No helper found for module: alert.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: clock.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: calendar
No helper found for module: compliments.
No helper found for module: currentweather.
No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: newsfeed
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 …
Starting server op port 8080 …
You’re using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs
Server started …
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Connecting socket for: calendar
Starting node helper for: calendar
Connecting socket for: newsfeed
Starting module: newsfeed
Sockets connected & modules started …
Launching application.
Create new calendar fetcher for url: http://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics - Interval: 300000
Create new news fetcher for url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml - Interval: 300000
Use existing news fetcher for url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

Yep I have a mouse and… nothing else. I dont have a create a config message - just a blank black screen and full mouse clickability? just checked the terminal thanks to task manager and it looks like there arent any errors

Another mini update - its now accessible on other computers on my network (going to localhost:8080) just still sitting with a black screen on my pi

Thank you!!! I just ran the npm start - and it looks like …something… happened? I now have a large blank empty black screen (mouse still usable and I can get to task manager) so … maybe its trying to work?

Hello,

I just started fresh with a 32 GB SD on a raspberry pi 3 running raspian.

I used the install code provided on the main site - and everything ran through successfully without error.

My question (which may be extremely dumb) is now what? Most sites I visit say to just open your browser (Chromium) and to go to localhost (or localhost/MagicMirror). I’ve tried both and I get the sad page of “This site can’t be reached”

I tried rebooting just in case I missed something or something was weird. I changed the config file to [] for all ipaddresses in the whitelist.

I read a few forums which mentioned typing out the specifc ip - which I did using ifconfig as a lookup but still no avail with that (nor with adding :8000) on the end of it.

Am i missing something completely? Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

Thank you for any and all help to someone trying to get into the hobby of raspberry pis.