I had a need to run MagicMirror in server mode in a docker container to do some testing. Since I am fairly new to docker I had to do a lot of google searching to get everything working (especially the volumes and networking). I wrote this how-to to guide you through the docker install process, pulling and running the MagicMirror image, and basic configuration. I hope someone finds it useful.

https://www.putorius.net/2019/01/testing-magic-mirror-running-in-docker.html

@clemy I am having the same issue. I would LOVE to have this working!

I wrote this tutorial up after I got my PIR sensor working and though it might help some folks. If not admins can feel free to delete this thread.

https://www.putorius.net/2019/01/using-pir-sensor-for-motion-detection.html

I am using pm2 and it’s startup scripts to start MM on boot on my pi 3. I tried several different ordering techniques including:

[Unit]
Description=PM2 process manager
Documentation=https://pm2.keymetrics.io/
Wants=network-online.target
After=network.target network-online.target
....
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target network-online.target

For some reason nothing works and I keep getting auth errors on my modules and a constant Loading text in my calendar.

I resorted to writing this in my MM startup script to wait for a ping:

((count = 100))
while [[ $count -ne 0 ]] ; do
    ping -c 1 8.8.8.8
    rc=$?
    if [[ $rc -eq 0 ]] ; then
        ((count = 1))
    fi
    ((count = count - 1))
done

if [[ $rc -eq 0 ]] ; then
	cd ~/MagicMirror
	DISPLAY=:0 npm start
fi

Anyone else have any ideas?

I just blew away the docker image and did a new pull and it is fixed and on 2.6.0.

grep version package.json

“version”: “2.6.0”,

@idoodler No I did not change the default directory at all. That is why this is so odd to me.

@bhepler maybe.

but I saw that the originator of the docker image said it was updated daily with a cronjob on this post:

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/5316/automatic-docker-build/2

@bastilimbach Any help?

@dazza120 But then if I rebuild the docker container wouldn’t it just put me back 2318 commits?

UPDATE: Yes, I rebuilt the docker container and it reverted right back.

I recently installed MM with docker using this image:

https://github.com/bastilimbach/docker-MagicMirror

It ran fine for a couple of days then yesterday I received this meesage:

MagicMirror2 update available.
The current installation is 2318 commits behind on the master branch.

My current version is:

grep version package.json 
"version": "2.5.0"

I have done a lot of searching. I have read that there is a cron job that updates the image for docker, but I have rebuilt several times and still no luck and I don’t see any changes on the docker git.

I have tried git pull and get error after error.

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
	package-lock.json
	vendor/package-lock.json
Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
	modules/default/clock/clock_screenshot.png
	modules/default/compliments/compliments_screenshot.png
	modules/default/currentweather/weather_screenshot.png
	modules/default/newsfeed/newsfeed_screenshot.png
	modules/default/weather/README.md
	modules/default/weather/current.njk
	modules/default/weather/current.png
	modules/default/weather/forecast.njk
	modules/default/weather/forecast.png
	modules/default/weather/providers/README.md
	modules/default/weather/providers/darksky.js
	modules/default/weather/providers/openweathermap.js
	modules/default/weather/weather.css
	modules/default/weather/weather.js
	modules/default/weather/weatherobject.js
	modules/default/weather/weatherprovider.js
	modules/default/weatherforecast/forecast_screenshot.png
Please move or remove them before you merge.
Aborting

Any help?