@sdetweil I’m in the process of re-imaging the USB drive from a backup. Hopefully that works. I don’t understand why it would work from a cold start but not a restart or reboot, but we’ll see what happens. It’s very consistent.

Update: Restarting MM and rebooting had no affect. A shutdown and power disconnect fixed the issue, at least for now.

MM V2.24.0, Pi Zero2W, Raspbian 10 (Buster)

MM stopped working yesterday. The PM2 log is showing this error:

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGSEGV

If I reinstall Electron, do I need a specific version? If so, how can I tell which version I currently have, and how would I do it?

@rkorell Nice work! You didn’t specify the type of mirror you were considering. I would suggest a real glass mirror instead of acrylic. It’s more expensive but looks infinity better. I tried acrylic first and it was a waste of money.

CBS news feed is working for me https://www.cbsnews.com/latest/rss/main

I see a thread on Reddit where people are saying they lost the Yahoo RSS feed on Oct 29, which is when I noticed the problem on my Magic Mirror. I’m guessing that they either dropped the feed or it has a different link. Google AI thinks the feed is still in existence. I haven’t seen any official notice from Yahoo. Does anyone have a link for another general news source? I just check the top 10 RSS feeds on a website and the only one that actually exists is Politico. I really don’t want to add politics to my mirror.

Update: I believe the problem is with Yahoo, not my Magic Mirror.

Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, Buster, MM V2.24

Yahoo news feed stopped working a day or two ago. I’ve rebooted but no improvement. Other news feeds are still working.

Error Message in PM2 logs:

[ERROR] Newsfeed Error. Could not fetch newsfeed: https://www.yahoo.com/news/rss Error: Not Found on Accelerator

Here is the link from the config file.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rss

That link works in a browser on my PC

Update: 1024 x 768 works well too on the Pi Zero 2W

I’m running this on a Pi Zero 2W. At first it kept freezing because some of my images were way too big. After I resized all of my images to 800 x 600 it’s going great.

@sdetweil I appreciate your efforts with this. After a week of trying everything to make it work on Bookworm I gave up and built it on Bullseye. I had a couple of issues though. The automatic install script froze the system during the Node installation. I had previously expanded the swapfile to 1024 (1 gb) as I found that the default setting was too low.

I removed MagicMirror and all of it’s sub directories and followed the manual install instructions. The mirror is now running well except for the MMM-Jast ticker which is now not nearly as smooth as it was under the previous version of MM running on Buster. I tried adding export ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU=1 to my mm.sh script but that completely distorted the display.

I’m not sure if I’m going to keep this new version.

@sdetweil I did try Bullseye and that failed to install MM. I guess I could try again. This is so frustrating. I can can it working on one Pi Zero 2, but not another one. I’m done with this for now. My older version is working fine.

For anyone else interested, I changed the following in the MMM-MyScoreboard.css file:

In the "MMM-MyScoreboard .box-score .status " section

From:
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: 400;

To:
font-sze: 30px;
font-weight: bold;l

@sdetweil I’ve been struggling with this for a week. Nothing new seems to play well with Pi Zero 2. I built the OS and MM from scratch on a USB drive and after many tries finally got it working. When I moved the USB drive to the Pi Zero 2 that’s mounted in my mirror it didn’t work. I tried it in the Zero 2 that I used to build the software and it didn’t work there either. However when I plug it into a Pi 4 it works fine. It seems that the changes they made in Bookworm ignored the needs of the Pi Zero 2.

I also built it from scratch on a 32gb microSD card and that worked. I tried using PiShrink to reduce the image size so it would fit on my 16gb USB drive. It appeared to work, but the Zero 2 wouldn’t boot from it. The way my mirror is set up, I can’t access the SD slot.

@sdetweil Using Bookworm? Maybe my memory allotment fix messed things up, but I’m pretty sure it was like that before I did that. And it’s like that on two different Pi Zero 2’s, so it’s not a physical issue. I have a bunch of unused 4’s and 5’ but I’m reluctant to use them because I hear the drone of the fans when they’re in the mirror, which is in a small bathroom.

@sdetweil I did use the 32 bit version. From boot to MM display is around 5 minutes, maybe more. The stock ticker (MMM_Jast) is very slow and jerky compared to my mirror running on Buster, and basically unusable. There were other things I noticed too. After booting to Raspberry Pi O/S, the monitor goes completely white for a minute or two between the desktop display and the Magic Mirror. I never had that issue with Buster. If I’m forced to upgrade in the future I’ll use a Pi 4 or 5, but for now I’ll stick with what I have.

@sdetweil I tried 400, 800, and 1024. 1024 bricked it. I was able to plug the USB into a Pi4 and get it working, While in the Pi4, I was able to install the MMM-Jast module and then reduce it back to 400. When I moved it back to the Zero 2W it worked. But the whole thing is agonizingly slow on the Zero 2 with Bookworm. About 10 times slower than with Buster. Even logging in via SSH was terribly slow.

That was a few days completely wasted. Just out of curiosity, is there a way to reset the memory allocation to whatever the default value is? I have faster Pi’s I could use but I don’t like the fan noise.

I had MMM_Jast working on a Pi Zero 2 W (Buster). I wanted to update Magic Mirror to the latest version but that required an OS update as well. So I did a fresh install of Bookworm and MagicMirror. The NodeJS version is 20.15.1. and the NPM version is 10.7.0.

Magic Mirror and a couple of modules are working fine. However, when I try to install MMM-Jast I get an error during the “npm install” part. Here is the error message:

FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

Can I increase the heap space, and if so, how and to what value?

@sdetweil It’s Buster. I guess I’ll have to build it from scratch again. I remember having a hard time getting the PIR Sensor module to work, not sure if works under bookworm.

I’ve had Magic Mirror running on a Pi Zero 2W for about 8 months and it is behind a few versions. I tried to update to the latest version but get the 'Unsupported engine" NodeJs and NPM version error.

As far as I’ve seen, newer versions of NodeJs don’t support the Zero 2. Is that true? Is there a workaround so I can update my Mirror?

@sdetweil

I’d like to increase the size of the start time for an upcoming game. Which element in the CSS file would that be?