BUG: Having a heck of a time Installing

[JeremyGarrard]

Describe the Bug

Is this an issue with the CLI or GUI?

Is this something that should be put in the Wiki?

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I've been trying to install for a while now and I don't know what's wrong! I am able to get into the GUI but I'm met with 'Unable to retrieve active modules' every time. I have installed the new version, made sure my ipwhitelist is an empty array, downloaded the module, etc etc.

Sorry for being a pest but I could really use a hand! This module is just so cool!

thank you for any help

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MagicMirror Config

• your MagicMirror config.js
  mmpm-logs-2023-1-28.zip

[Bee-Mar]

you've run mmpm install --as-module, correct? If so, did you add the mmpm module to your config.js?

Also, what does the output of mmpm env display? All the information requested in the bug report template is needed to diagnose the issue.

[JeremyGarrard]

yes I ran that- see below for the config section where I added it as a module - is it right?

	{
		module: "newsfeed",
		position: "bottom_bar",
		config: {
			feeds: [
    {
      title: "New York Times",
      url: "https://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
    },
    {
      title: "BBC",
      url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/europe/rss.xml",
    },
    {
      title: "Washington Post",
      url: "https://feeds.washingtonpost.com/rss/politics?itid=lk_inline_manual_2",
    },
    {
      title: "Wall Street Journal",
      url: "https://feeds.a.dj.com/rss/RSSMarketsMain.xml",
    },
  ],
			showSourceTitle: true,
			showPublishDate: true,
			broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
			broadcastNewsUpdates: true
		}
	},
	{ module: "mmpm" },
	  {
module: 'MMM-nyc-transit',

also for mmpm env it gives me this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ mmpm env
{
"MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_ROOT": "/home/pi/MagicMirror",
"MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_URI": "http://127.0.1.1:8080",
"MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_PM2_PROCESS_NAME": "",
"MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_DOCKER_COMPOSE_FILE": ".",
"MMPM_IS_DOCKER_IMAGE": false
}

Run mmpm open --env to edit the variable values

[Bee-Mar]

The MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_URI is not correct. The instructions here detail how to set this up properly.

https://github.com/Bee-Mar/mmpm/wiki/Status,-Hide,-Show-MagicMirror-Modules

[JeremyGarrard]

Ok thank you! Got that fixed but still getting the message on the GUI. Here's my ENV:
{
"MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_ROOT": "/home/pi/MagicMirror",
"MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_URI": "http://192.168.1.179",
"MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_PM2_PROCESS_NAME": "",
"MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_DOCKER_COMPOSE_FILE": ".",
"MMPM_IS_DOCKER_IMAGE": false
}

And I attached another log
mmpm-logs-2023-1-28.zip

[Bee-Mar]

if you run mmpm mm-ctl --status does anything display on your terminal?

[JeremyGarrard]

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ mmpm open --gui
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ mmpm mm-ctl --status

• Sending request to MagicMirror for active modules ERROR: Failed to connect to MagicMirror, closing socket. Is MagicMirror running?

Is MagicMirror running, and are MMPM env variables set properly? If MagicMirror is a Docker image, open MagicMirror in your browser to activate the connection.
10 second timeout reached, closing connection.

[Bee-Mar]

Something I just noticed...You have "." as the value for MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_DOCKER_COMPOSE_FILE, that should just be an empty string "" if you aren't using docker-compose.

Aside from that, I'm fairly certain the address you have for MMPM_MAGICMIRROR_URI is still not correct. The IP address is probably fine, but unless MagicMirror changed something recently, you should append the port number to the address (which is most likely 8080, so the address should probably be "http://192.168.1.179:8080")

[Bee-Mar]

@JeremyGarrard any update on this?

[dahenson54]

@Bee-Mar I followed your steps here to add the mmpm module to config.js because I had not added that (maybe I missed it in the install process?). When I now run mmpm mm-ctl --status I get this response back:
`+ Sending request to MagicMirror for active modules ✓
alert
hidden: false
key: 1

updatenotification
hidden: false
key: 2

clock
hidden: false
key: 3

calendar
hidden: false
key: 4

compliments
hidden: false
key: 5

weather
hidden: false
key: 6

weather
hidden: false
key: 7

newsfeed
hidden: false
key: 8
`
I still have the "Unable to retrieve modules" error in the GUI.

I didn't want to open yet another issue ticket for the same issue.

mmpm-logs-2023-3-15.zip

[Bee-Mar]

@dahenson54 @JeremyGarrard version 4.0.0 has been released. This is a complete rework of the application with improvements and stability all-around. Please see How to Migrate to 4.x.x as well the rest of the pages in the Wiki