given that we will have a regular update quarterly, and we have such a large number of new users experiencing troubles after updates (mostly cause they have a ton to learn)… I have developed a script I would like to get included for future updates…

it should handle all the work…
and give you a trial run of all that…

only applying changes if u request them

give it a try
this works on Mac as well

  bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/upgrade-script.sh)"

no changes are made to the local repo or the working copy

if you WANT to actually apply the changes do

  bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/upgrade-script.sh)" apply

there is a log file in the installers folder…

edited Jan 4, 2020 - move from dropbox to github as distro

@lusiess01 ok, we have seen this only a few times… but in each case it was a problem with the memory card. stuff written doesn’t stick…

I also have a newer installer that resolves a lot of problems with PM2, and supports installing on non-PI systems (Mac, pi zero, odroid, jetson nano)

 bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/raspberry.sh)"

edited Jan 4, 2020 - move from dropbox to github as distro

looks like we have surfaced an old problem. some modules provide translations in json files, but have comments /* */, or //
which are not allowed.

edit the files and remove the comment(s)

you would see this error in the developers window

0.0.0.0/:4 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token / in JSON at position 44
    at JSON.parse ()
    at XMLHttpRequest.xhr.onreadystatechange

to open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i on the mm keyboard, select the tab labeled ‘console’ and scroll up or down to see that errors

i run MM on an ODroid Xu4… I think C2 would be ok.
le Potato has an ubuntu image 18.04 at least…

so its seems reasonable… some supporting modules (speech reco mostly) might be lagging

@dazza120 no. Motion is not related to MM. It can do all sorts of things. Record video, take snapshots, and a lot more. Supports just about every camera.

And has exits which can be used to inform others of motion, video files, …

So, follow it’s install instructions. Then edit /etc/motion/motion.conf, and update the lines I documented in the readme. This will call the script I provided to inform my module of motion(start and end)

U also customize the motion app on sensitivity, delay, etc etc. All things I have seen people ask about.

here are some pics of the two charts

two charts upper right

two charts closer view

one chart

@mykle1 sorry, you are using some words that don’t describe well what the problem is…

i THINK you said

when I try to load image files (local to the MM system), I use a URL string. 
that URL string is 'relative' to the base of my server, defined by '??????' (you didn't supply that)

when a URL fails to load, I get error 404. (not found). 

but how do I handle this?

you would add an onerror() handler for the img object
this will get called ONLY when there is an error

img.onerror = funtion(event_object){
var img_with_error = event_object.currentTarget
img_with_error.src=??? the url of the failing image
}

see https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/obj_event.asp
for more info in decoding the event object

@jimbydude as I mentioned above you can configure it if, you get one file that was removed in 2.11

cd ~/MagicMirror
curl -sl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/run-start.sh >run-start.sh
chmod +x run-start.sh

edit package.json and replace the start stmt with this

"start", "./run-start.sh",

then edit config.js and set
serverOnly:'local",

this will launch the run-start.sh when u do npm start or pm2 start x
the script will check the setting of the serverOnly parm and if set to ‘local’,
will launch mm in server only and then launch chrome over it. from the outside you cannot tell the difference… (u can for video playback)

from config.js

// serverOnly:  true/false/"local" ,
			     //  local for armv6l processors, default 
			     //   starts serveronly and then starts chrome browser
			     // false, default for all  NON-armv6l devices
			     // true, force serveronly mode, be```cause you want to.. no UI on this device

Erase both lock files, and go again

@dnj0104 no, I want it to be a line BEFORE the stuff in the file already

@dnj0104 bad module,

edit the node_helper.js
and add this as the 1st line

const NodeHelper = require("node_helper");

@dnj0104 everythign should be named mpd_client

look at the files list in the module
https://github.com/timjong93/MMM-MPD

all mpd_client

no, do NOT change the folder name, change the config.js to match

module: 'mpd_client',

@dnj0104 is ok, he didn’t do the instructions correctly…

yes, start over

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
rm -rf mod_client

then do the install as I suggested

@dnj0104 thanks… so the git checkout would not have worked, sorry…

try the install as I suggest above

@dnj0104 yeh, mess

this module should be installed like this to make up for the name problem

cd ~/ MagicMirror/modules
git clone https://github.com/timjong93/MMM-MPD.git mpd_client
cd mpd_client
npm install

then everything matches

@dnj0104 can you do

cd ~/MagicMirror
grep version package.json

@dnj0104 what MM version are you running on? this problem was fixed in 2.10
do this
from the MM folder

cd ~/MagicMirror
git checkout modules/node_modules/node_helper/index.js

@dnj0104 ok, so the error that causes the default config to load is caused by some other problem.

missing module, or some other failure

can u show the MM startup messages (from the window where you do npm start)

a module consists of the folder name

MMM-MPD

and its main js file

MMM-MPD.js

and inside MMM-MPD.js is the module register statement

Module.register("MMM-MPD", {

and in config.js

  {
     module: 'MMM-MPD',

this causes MM to look for the folder, filename and file contents in that order

SO, it SOUNDS like from a prior post, that the REAL name is

mod_client

(so there must be the right folder name, file name and file contents of
mod_client

if so, you can rename the folder (mv is the rename command on linux)
then in config.js you need

  module:'mod_client',

see the topic ‘How to add modules’ in my signature

@wmx are we ever really done?! lol