cannot access magicmirror as a client on raspberry pi from terminal

[bachoo786]

hi so everything is working fine and I can access magicmirror if I go to the web browser of my raspberry pi hit the address of the server running magic mirror.

However when I try to run it from terminal with this command i.e. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ node clientonly --address 192.168.0.27 --port 82 I get the following error:

module.js:549
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/home/pi/clientonly'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:609:3

can you please help @bastilimbach ?

thanks.

[bastilimbach]

Correct me, if I'm wrong: You started a Docker container with the image docker-MagicMirror on your server, which you can access via the Browser, right?

Now you try to start the client side on a separate computer, in your case a Raspberry Pi, correct? To do that you need clone the MagicMirror project on the client computer and execute node clientside inside the cloned folder. This error simply tells you, that clientside isn't installed.

[bachoo786]

thats correct.

I have already got mm running on my raspberry and I have just stopped it using pm2 stop mm. So I tried to run clientmode in the MagicMirror directory and I get this.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ node clientonly --address 192.168.0.60 --port 82
Client:
(electron:17868): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
There something wrong. The clientonly is not running code 1

Also can you tell me one thing, is it ok if I just run the client mode from raspberry pi's web browser? so just got to 192.168.0.60:82 on my raspberry pi browser and run from there? will it cause any issues? I noticed if I add module or do any changes to the config then I have to refresh the page as the updates that I made wont show.

[bastilimbach]

Running inside a normal browser window is totally fine. You just need to refresh the page if you make changes to the config or add modules.

[bastilimbach]

cannot open display is a pretty generic error. This is unrelated to docker-MagicMirror or MagicMirror. Try searching for the (electron:17868): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: error in Google.

[bachoo786]

ok thanks

how do I restart magic mirror if I am running in docker? when running in docker it doesnt come with pm2?

[bastilimbach]

docker restart <container_name>

[bachoo786]

thanks