I have read online that capacitive sensors can detect both metal and non-metal. Can anyone please explain me their working in simple terms? I read on various places online but information I found was too technical or less.

Module = Calendar
Issue = Trying to get the date format is DD/MM/YYYY currently in default even when specified not to. Don’t know if I am incorrectly specifying.
Current Module Config = {
module: “calendar”,
header: “My Calendar”,
position: “top_left”,
config: {
maximumEntries: “6”,
maximumNumberOfDays: “7”,
wrapEvents: “true”,
maxTitleLines: “2”,
fadePoint: “1”,
dateFormat: “Do MMM”,
hideTime: “true”,
fetchInterval: “60000”,
calendars: [
{
symbol: “calendar-check”,
url: “webcal://p39-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/MTExNjgwMjM2NTExMTE2OIZFb1PsCmMo3ecwDd6H7xOGtd_rniDwbBvisBnUUbTo”
},
{
symbol: “calendar-check”,
url: “webcal://p39-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/MTExNjgwMjM2NTExMTE2OIZFb1PsCmMo3ecwDd6H7xPI-y3Ntq2MNAzfi5poNWuySmEYsiAGaraNGLnR7zZorrG5xXn8wrtERNCCDMDMxcw”
}
]
}
}

Hello,

I’m create my first magic mirror.
I’ve find in the 3rd party module list a nice module with the name “MMM-temp-ds18b20”.
My problem is that I don’t know how I can realize this. Because to practise this nice idea I need some wireless modules which send the temperature information to the Raspberry Pi.

Maybe someone of you has do this in former times and can gave me some tips?

thanks
jackyjoy

Hi,

FYI

I installed the latest MM version on a ‘play’ system. When using the ‘new’ weather module for current and forecast when I enter the ‘LocationID:’ 6 digit number the module only gets as far as loading. If I use ‘appid’ & ‘Location’ (location has to be valid ‘city’ supported by openweathermap) the module loads.

Cheers

Hi,

I tried to get the Hello-Lucy Plugin to work.
My sound drivers are working and i can also record with aplay and arecord.

My Microphone is a MicrosoftLifecam and on card 2, device 0.
Speaker is on 1,0 (aux).

When i start magicMirrorm all modules are shown normal and i cannot see Lucy at all…

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Any ideas what to do?

I have written python code and I want to output a variable from it to a mirror screen, tell me how this can be implemented. Help me please682dbfc9-cfbd-4548-8aa5-256921b996d8-image.png

Hello,

In the last months the SD card (32GB) of the MM were after 2 weeks full of data.
I tried 3 times to find the problem, but at least I made it completly new.
Today the SD card was full again and I found out, that the MagicMirror-error.log was about 24GB big.
So I deleted it and the system is working again.
But why was it so big? Because of the amount of data I could not open ist.

What I did on spring break…

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Thank you again Sam for your help!!!

I’m ready to start building. I’ve disassembled my monitor. The power button is a blister type. I plan to glue the entire strip of buttons on the back of the LCD and use a sharpie to mark what they are.

I plan to run the power cord for the monitor and the pi into a 3 into 1 adapter and then run an extension cord from the adapter to the outlet. Does that sound like a reasonable plan?

On the PIR sensors, I’ve got one in my Amazon cart, I’d like to get the pre-made wire harnesses for it, but it seems like the smallest number I can purchase is 120. I only need a few, in the event I make a mistake. Any suggestions/

CheapDad

Hi,
I struggled a little bit to rotate my IR-Frame to work with my mirror in portrait mode.
So, I wrote this little guide to help you out. This is a guide from a noob to noobs 😉

first if you want to rotate your screen, follow this instruction
How to rotate your screen

then open a command prompt on your raspberry

now you must create a new folder

mkdir ~/startup_scripts

before we create a script, we need some information. Type this in your command prompt

xinput -list

it will show you something like this

pic1.JPG

this shows you the name of the IR-Frame, in my case it is IrScreen cc (yours could be different)

open a 2nd command prompt, it is time to create our script

type the following command

nano ~/startup_scripts/portrait.sh

enter this code

xinput set-prop "THE NAME OF YOUR IF_FRAME" --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1

now youmust enter the exact name of your IR-Frame in the code. In my case the code would look like this

xinput set-prop “IrScreen cc” --type=float “Coordinate Transformation Matrix” 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1

save and exit with Crtl+X and Y

next step, make the script executable type

sudo chmod +x ~/startup_scripts/portrait.sh

now we can test it type

bash ~/startup_scripts/portrait.sh

your IR-Frame should be set in the right orientation now,

in case it is inverted then your screen is in portrait mode (rotated 90 clockwise)
this will inverse the curser, open the portrait.sh file in the nano editor

nano ~/startup_scripts/portrait.sh

replace the numbers with the following
0 -1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1

and it should work for you

now we only have to add some line to this on every startup of you raspberry.

sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

and add this line

@lxterminal -e /home/pi/startup_scripts/portrait.sh

123.JPG
close and save it with Ctrl+X and Y

all done

if you like it, feel free for a up-vote or a comment

Hi,

does anyone know how to modify new default weather module in custom.css? I would like to change weather icon colors and size of ‘feels like’ text in custom.css. I was trying something like this:

.weather .day-sunny { color: #ffff00; }

but it doesnt work. Thank you in advance

Hi All,

Recently upgraded MM to the latest version and been hit with a few issues (Electron issue, valid-url etc which have all been posted previously). I have resolved most of them by looking up previous posts but can’t seem to resolve this particular issue. Since the upgrade, the MMM-CalvinAndHobbes is stuck on loading. Looked up on the dev window as suggested by few for similar issues previously and this is what i can see. I can see where the issue lies but i’m not a coder so no idea how to go about fixing this issue.

Scrolling now MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:101 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'naturalHeight' of null at Class.scrollComic (MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:101) at MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:41 MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:98 Scrolling now MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:101 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'naturalHeight' of null at Class.scrollComic (MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:101) at MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:41 MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:98 Scrolling now MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:101 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'naturalHeight' of null at Class.scrollComic (MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:101) at MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:41 MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:98 Scrolling now MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:101 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'naturalHeight' of null at Class.scrollComic (MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:101) at MMM-CalvinAndHobbes.js:41

Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Many thanks

I have a simple web page for testing purposes which is set up as shown below. Please ignore that I removed the < from all the tags as to not mess with this editors formatting. I would like to display the body text, or otherwise the entire page on my mirror. Is there a module which makes this possible? The html from my web page can be adjusted as necessary. Thanks for your help.

!DOCTYPE html>
html>
head>
body>
OK
/body>
/html>

Hi all,

Trying to get my class project started, but unable to get MagicMirror running on my monitor. When I attempt to start I keep getting:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm run start > > > magicmirror@2.15.0 start > > node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js > > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.085] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.15.0 > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.091] [LOG] Loading config ... > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.098] [LOG] Loading module helpers ... > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.100] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert. > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.264] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.265] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.266] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock. > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.770] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.771] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.772] [LOG] No helper found for module: compliments. > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.772] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather. > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.795] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.796] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.796] [LOG] All module helpers loaded. > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.880] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 ... > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.894] [LOG] Server started ... > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.895] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.896] [LOG] Connecting socket for: calendar > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.897] [LOG] Starting node helper for: calendar > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.898] [LOG] Connecting socket for: newsfeed > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.899] [LOG] Starting node helper for: newsfeed > [09.04.2021 14:35.19.900] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started ... > > undefined:0 > > > illegal access > (Use `electron --trace-uncaught ...` to show where the exception was thrown) >

I’m afraid I do not know much about electron and having trouble diagnosing what is going wrong.
I began with doing the correction indicated here regarding common installation issues: https://docs.magicmirror.builders/getting-started/installation.html#manual-installation

I also tried a few suggestions for other issues that seemed possibly similar such as delete the node_modules/electron folder and rerun npm install in /MagicMirror directory

Also tried npm rebuild in the MagicMirror directory and tried to start again and that was unsuccessful.

Any advice? Struggling to get the basics up and running so I can jump full into my project and after about an hour of troubleshooting unsure of what to try next and any help is appreciated!

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to show different layouts of the same MM to different users?

My example is that I will have a permanent MM set up, but will also view the content on a phone, TV, and laptop, and I would like it to have formatting correct for each one. I am using MM as a dashboard, kind of like the old iGoogle homepage.

Is there a way to do this via CSS by differentiating user-agents/browsers, or could I run multiple different MMs and then bookmark them individually on each device.

I added MMM Scoreboard, My screen shows all black. Not the “error config file” screen black, just plain black. Not frozen.

I’ve added apps before with no issue. I even tried to copy-paste the “sample configuration” in the file - just in case my preferred configuration was flawed - but the same black screen.

Anyone familiar with this?

Hi guys,

im using the MMM-videoplayer module on a 50 inch TV.
Does anybody has a proposal of the properties for the played .mp4 file?

currently im using a file with 400mb and a length of 9 min.

witdth = 1280
heigth = 720
Date rate = 6006 kBit/s
total rate = 6086 kBit/s
single bit rate = 25 pic/sec

if i play this video, the picture jerks and it doesn’t look smooth.
in which format i have to convert the video for an acceptable result?

Thanks in advance

How to add MagicMorror as a device in Google Home app?

Hi…
I don’t consider myself to be a novice but setting up a remote compliments file is proving to be a real challenge.
Unfortunately, IMO the documentation isn’t that great when targetting a remote file - I’ve tried all sorts of config lines but to no avail.

e.g.

remoteFile: 'http://localhost:8080/compliments.json' remoteFile: 'http://localhost:8080/modules/compliments.json'

for localhost, also read 127.0.0.1 and its assigned IPv4 address - I even moved the file into different directories in the vain hope it was a webserver permissions problem.

This is the (current) error in the debug window using localhost…

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'http://localhost:8080/compliments.json' from origin 'http://0.0.0.0:8080' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. compliments.js:134 GET http://localhost:8080/compliments.json net::ERR_FAILED

Similarly, I also tried…

remoteFile: 'file://home/pi/MagicMirror/compliments.json'

ALL ATTEMPTS to target a filesystem file (compliments.json) fail 😞 …

compliments.js:134 GET http://0.0.0.0:8080/modules/default/compliments/file://home/pi/MagicMirror/compliments.json 404 (Not Found)

I can only assume my notation is wrong somewhere/somehow!
Incidentally, the file formatting appears to be correct so I’m convinced it’s the way I’m trying to ‘point’ the system at the json file.

If anyone can help, I’d appreciate it. Not much hair left to pull out 😞