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Steveorevo / node-red-contrib-nbrowser

Provides a virtual web browser (a.k.a. "headless browser") appearing as a node.
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Not working on Raspbian #14

Closed AymanFadda closed 5 years ago

AymanFadda commented 6 years ago

Hi, I've been trying for days to make it work but I get no answer at all. I tried even to follow the example but the reported site isn't even working. Is it possible to make an easy example that shows how it should work?

Thank you

Steveorevo commented 6 years ago

Are you getting a particular error message? Are you using a window manager, or command line (the latter requires xvfb).

AymanFadda commented 6 years ago

I have no error at all. I just don't receive anything. It seems it's not working at all. For what is concerning the xvfb, since I have not too much experience, would you please explain how to install it? Thanks

Steveorevo commented 6 years ago

Hi Aynan, I’m sorry but if you don’t have anything at all; I’m not able to figure out where to begin; without a screenshot, text from a command line, I’m not able to know where/what you are coming from.

meeki007 commented 6 years ago

I too have this problem. From what i can tell its an issue with raspbian-stretch.

AymanFadda did you install it from GUI and not the command line? I did the same the first time and had the same problems as you. I rebooted node-red as stated on the install page. I get no errors.... I get nothing.....It just hangs on what ever page i try to load.

So I went to terminal on a fresh pi running node-red that never had nbrowser installed.

Her is what i figured out:

nightmare": "^2.10.0" requires a higher version of electron than runs on arm. electron@1.7.9 is the only one working right now.

so even if you get a working electron and Xvfb working it will still try to install a newer version of electron.

Its not the Steveorevo's fault. Its whoever is building the package for electron.

So I went oldschool and now have phantomjs and casperjs running on the PI it was a pretty EZ install. I'm now looking into Steverevo's code and thinking about modding the hell out of it to make it work with casperjs.

Meeki