I’m using MMM-BackgroundSlideshow with MMM-Pages and it was working fine. My mirror was down for a while and when I booted it up again, it seemed to be working fine except that a bunch of modules needed updating – MMM-Traffic, MMM-EarthquakeAlerts, MMM-CalendarExt3, and MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.

Like an idiot, I updated them all (git pull/npm install) without backing things up first. I didn’t change the config except to add something to another module on a different page.

I have not reloaded the MM on the actual MM downstairs, but when I access it via a web browser from my computer, it doesn’t show any images.

I looked in the console and see that when switching to page 1 (images), it suspends the modules that were active on page 0, resumes a few always-on modules (MMM-Pages, MMM-Keypress, etc.) and then… suspends MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.

MMM-Pages.js:97 [Pages]: received a notification to change to page 1 of type number
module.js:182 clock is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-Worldclock is suspended.
2module.js:182 calendar is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-connection-status is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-WiFiPassword is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SystemStats is suspended.
module.js:182 weather is suspended.
5module.js:182 MMM-Traffic is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-MoonPhase is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-EarthquakeAlerts is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-CalendarExt3 is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-CustomTable is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SimpleText is suspended.
3module.js:182 MMM-homeassistant-sensors is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-CustomTable is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-NextEvent is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-Bluelinky is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-WeeklySchedule is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-Canvas is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SimpleText is suspended.
5module.js:182 MMM-AddressBook is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SimpleText is suspended.
4module.js:182 MMM-AddressBook is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SimpleText is suspended.
3module.js:182 MMM-AddressBook is suspended.
module.js:189 alert is resumed.
module.js:189 MMM-Pages is resumed.
module.js:189 MMM-Keypress is resumed.
module.js:189 MMM-AutoDimmer is resumed.
module.js:182 MMM-BackgroundSlideshow is suspended.

One other note - when I change pictures (mouse scrollwheel, picked up my MMM-Keypress and sent as a notification to MMM-BackgroundSlideshow), I see this error:

MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:666 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set properties of undefined (setting 'displayedName')
    at Class.updateImageInfo (MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:666:38)
    at Image.<anonymous> (MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:553:40)
    at handleBinaryFile (exif.js:379:26)
    at getImageData (exif.js:386:17)
    at EXIF.getData (exif.js:983:13)
    at image.onload (MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:531:12)
updateImageInfo	@	MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:666
(anonymous)	@	MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:553
handleBinaryFile	@	exif.js:379
getImageData	@	exif.js:386
EXIF.getData	@	exif.js:983
image.onload	@	MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:531

Displaying paintings is one of, if not the most important aspects of this for me so I’d really like to figure this out. Alas, I seem to be an idiot so…

Thanks in advance!

Had an install but forgot my user / pw to the pi so decided to do a clean install.

But with a bit more fun?
So I decided to have Claude help me redo it all.

Started with the clean install, then had it help me install an SQL Server (For the Bible Quotes in the center)

Had it help me write the module to directly access the DB for the books / chapter / verse / text configurable with update speed / bible language (got 2 tables I can switch between ASV or KJV)

Then had it help me configure my Ecobee connection (newer module ecobee so had a hard time getting access to it’s api points) but I did have home assistant running on a nother pi box. And claude helped me connect to that instead to get the Home Tempratures section.

Finaly had it add a custom background rotating module that pulls images from a local folder and add overlays to the different modules.

So far I’m liking the results.

My Mirror was down for a while and when I booted it up again, I had some updates to do. These included MMM-EarthquakeAlerts and MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.

I did a “git pull” and “npm install” for MMM-BackgroundSlideshow and it seemed fine. I did the same for MMM-Traffic and again, it seemed fine. Then I did it for MMM-EarthquakeAlerts and got a bunch of messages after the “npm install” saying “EBADENGINE”:

npm install
npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: '@eslint/config-array@0.23.2',
npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: { node: '^20.19.0 || ^22.13.0 || >=24' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v20.9.0', npm: '10.1.0' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }
npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE   package: '@eslint/config-helpers@0.5.2',
npm WARN EBADENGINE   required: { node: '^20.19.0 || ^22.13.0 || >=24' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v20.9.0', npm: '10.1.0' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }

and so on. There are a total of 11 sets, all for “@eslint/something” except the last which just says "espree@11.1.1’ for the package.

I think that I need to update node.js to at least version 20.19 but I’m not sure how to do that. I honestly have no idea how I installed it in the first place except that it was probably via Sam’s excellent scripts?

If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, I’d really appreciate it. I found that I’ve really come to rely on it.

Hello,

I need help to use the MMM-ModuleScheduler,
I don’t know how to config this module to display other modules at chosen times.
My need is to display picture module witch display different pictures on different times. Actually I use MMM-RandomPhoto, because I can configure a path with pictures.
I want to display pictures from the path:

• ‘MondayMorning/’ on monday morning from 9h00 to 12h00
• ‘Mandayafternoon/’ on monday from 13h00 to 17h00
• ‘thuesdaymorning’ on thuesday form 9 to 12, etc…

I can’t understand how to do that… is there somebody to help me please?

Hi 😃

I stumbled across Transitous, a thriving open community-driven project that aggregates public transport data from many regions through a shared API.

I have now built a new module based on it: MMM-PublicTransportHub.

The main advantage compared to previous public transport modules is the much broader geographic coverage. So for users who haven’t had a public transport module for their region until now, this module might change that - check out the sources list if your region is on it.

Setup details and more information are in the repo: https://github.com/KristjanESPERANTO/MMM-PublicTransportHub

I would be happy to hear your feedback.

Re: Performances on Pi 3A+

Hello, I have this issue from the past.
In these months I tried a lot of things but I didn’t solve it.
I know it’s not hardware related, so I don’t know where to “bang my head”.
Raspberry is set up to start itself at 7:30.
The issue is: some days, not everydays, when it start raspberry reach the desktop but when MM is loaded the screen remain black with a white cursor in the middle.
In these months I temporary solved it in two ways:
1- refresh the page with a simple CTRL+R. It need a keyboard connected but it work flawlessly and istantly.
2- sending a “pm2 restart mm” through terminal
3- adding a delaying with export mmFetchTimeout=30000 seems helps a bit but it didn’t solve it totally

Ok, it’s not a great issue but I like to make my things working without issues :)

Do you have any advices?
Honestly, I’m a little bit ignorant but to me it could be related to electron because with a simple CTRL+R it shows everything, so (to me) it seem MM is loaded correctly but electron decide to show a black screen with cursor instead of MM modules.
Do I need to maybe update electron?
I prefer not to update raspberry frequently, if it works.

Is there a way to add a CTRL+R command after a delay of 10 seconds inside the mm.sh?
I think that could solve it easily.
Thanks

Full transparency - several modules I have created, and at least one other I changed, and borrowed some concepts from:
MMM-pages
MMM-CalendarExt3
MMM-Chores
MMM-EyeCandy
MMM-WeatherGraph
MMM-PeriodicTable
MMM-TouchButton
MMM-Tools
MMM-WeeklyMeals
clock
weather
calendar

Weekly Meals is based on the MMM-Chores concept but provides a simple module for communicating the meal plan in a busy house. Both of these are managed by a browser from the phone (or tablet)
Periodic Table is one I created for my grandson who loves all science
All other modules are from the repo

I will be posting the config and CSS files in a bit, but have some cleanup to complete on them.

I have a very out-of-the-box installation of the default calendar module on my mirror. But the mirror’s calendar shows that my brother’s birthday is this coming Monday, which is March 23. However, my iCal (the one referenced in my config) correctly indicates my brother’s birthday is December 23. This seems to occur for all my yearly recurring events.

Anyone noticed this before? I’ve been running my mirror for a couple years now and I think this defect has been there for at least a year. I’ve just been too busy to look into it until now

Thanks in advance for any advice.

-Jerry

Not sure which subsection to put this in, but this seemed the right place. It may be of some use to people with a MM and a video doorbell

I wanted to have the video from my doorbells (I have 2 on different doors) temporarily show on my MM when someone rung the doorbell.

First attempt was to use MMM-Remote-Control, MMM-Pages, go2rtc and MMM-EmbedURL to show the RTSP video (via go2rtc coverting to WebRTC) using Unifi’s Alarm Webhook feature calling for a page change - The 2 video streams on a hidden page, only shown on the page change call.

This worked in principal, but because the modules on the hidden page kept streaming the video even when not being displayed, the RPi5 got quite hot and the network overhead of the constant 24hr streaming was unneccesary.

The solution was to use a script to do the following:

Unifi alarm webhook calls http://pi_ip:9500/motion
go2rtc starts
Wait 3 seconds for go2rtc to connect to cameras
MagicMirror electron refreshes (/api/refresh) so iframes reconnect to go2rtc
Wait 3 seconds for refresh to complete
Switch to camera page (/api/notification/PAGE_CHANGED/1)
Camera feeds display for 60 seconds via WebRTC
Switch back to main page (/api/notification/PAGE_CHANGED/0)
Wait 2 seconds for page to switch
go2rtc stops

Works perfectly now. RPi stays cool and no constant streaming from camera to MM. There is a few seconds delay before it starts, but that actually works for me because of the location of the MM, the doors and where we usually are in the house.

Hope this helps someone who wants to do something similar.

Happy to answer questions.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for controlling MagicMirror² via the MMM-Remote-Control API.
My first milestone in automating MagicMirror using the AI assistants. (With Help from AI Programming Tools.)
This lets AI assistants like Claude interact with your smart mirror showing/hiding modules, sending alerts, toggling the display, restarting the mirror, and more. The possibilities are endless, just requires ingenuity.
Check it Out Here :
https://github.com/Ragziesoft/magicmirror-mcp

MMM-OpenWeatherForecast looks like the weather module I want to use.

But I’m getting a strange formatting thing – look at the attached screenshot. The icons are giant and the module runs off the screen.

Any ideas? It’s installed per the insrtuctions and up-to-date.

I have a new 1GB RPi5 running the latest version of MM, installed using @sdetweil 's scripts

It is running very hot at 84C

I don’t have any cooling hardware and it is not installed in a case, but airflow around is not restricted at all.

The only additional program I have running is go2rtc to stream an RTSP camera feed to an iFrame, but that is on a seperate page (using MMM-pages) that is only called on demand

I have ordered a cooler, but wanted to see if there was something amiss.

pi@MMPi5:~ $ top -b -n 1 | head -20
top - 12:40:10 up  5:33,  4 users,  load average: 8.30, 8.04, 7.71
Tasks: 232 total,   3 running, 229 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 77.8 us, 11.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 11.1 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st 
MiB Mem :   2006.8 total,    160.7 free,   1137.2 used,    870.8 buff/cache     
MiB Swap:   2006.0 total,   1966.0 free,     40.0 used.    869.5 avail Mem 

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 450392 pi        20   0 1143840  56256  41376 R 100.0   2.7   0:00.33 MainThr+
   2582 pi        20   0   32.6g 160848 132096 S  72.7   7.8 234:05.79 electron
   2685 pi        20   0 1407.7g 169824 113552 R  45.5   8.3 103:34.34 electron
 449306 pi        20   0 1415.9g 185040 120112 S  45.5   9.0   0:23.18 electron
   3153 pi        20   0 1407.8g 162912 101904 S  27.3   7.9 102:32.93 electron
   1334 pi        20   0  527936 116960  85824 S  18.2   5.7  72:06.61 labwc
   1525 pi        20   0 1408.1g 269904 160912 S  18.2  13.1  16:37.33 electron
   2658 pi        20   0   32.3g  88832  71040 S  18.2   4.3   9:05.59 electron
   3253 pi        20   0   32.5g  67680  53712 S   9.1   3.3  17:05.44 electron
  40449 pi        20   0 1245936  38560     16 S   9.1   1.9  19:24.04 go2rtc
 450399 pi        20   0   10368   5152   2800 R   9.1   0.3   0:00.02 top
      1 root      20   0   25712  13968   9424 S   0.0   0.7   0:01.83 systemd
      2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.04 kthreadd
pi@MMPi5:~ $ 

For the last few weeks, my calendar weeks have been starting on Monday, rather than Sunday (I’m in the US). It used to show Sun-Sat, but now it’s Mon-Sun.

I found the weekStart: 0 setting, but it’s not having any effect.
I set the locale: en-US.
I tried setting the mode: “week” and type: “row” and weekStart: 0 or 3 or 5 just to see what it would do, and it had no effect.
I set type: “weekly” and it did change the first day to Sunday, each week was a column, not a row.

The blocks from my config are below. Can anyone help?

{
module: ‘MMM-CalendarExt2’,
config: {
locale: “en-US”,
weekStart: 0,
calendars: [

Under views, here’s what I have
views: [
{
position: “top_bar”,
mode: “week”,
type: “row”,
slotMaxHeight: “150px”,
slotCount: 3,
hideOverflow: false,
slotTitle: “”,
slotTitleFormat: “dddd, M/D”,
timeFormat: “h:mm”,
slotSubTitle: " ",
modeOptions: {
weekStart: 0, // Sunday-first
},
},

Hi all,

I have a running MagicMirror version 2.27.0 on RP4 with Buster.

Before I update it to 2.34.0 should I update the RP4 to a newer software than Buster?

And how do I do it, and what about my MagicMirror files on the SD-card, are they gone or is there a way to make backup of the files/card?

Im trying to installe some fonts needed to rund MyTado, but is says Buster is to old?

MMM-HollywoodMovies
A simple but beautiful MagicMirror² module that displays upcoming Hollywood movie releases — complete with poster thumbnails, release dates, and lead cast — powered by the free TMDB API. Fully configurable.

Features

🎬 Displays up to 5 upcoming Hollywood movies releasing in the next 6 months
🖼️ Movie poster thumbnails via TMDB image CDN
📅 Formatted release dates
🎭 Top 3 lead actors per film
🔄 Auto-refreshes every 6 hours
⚡ Retry logic with timeout handling for reliable operation on Raspberry Pi
Check it out here;
https://github.com/Ragziesoft/MMM-HollywoodMovie

Hi Folks,

I would like to present you two new modules for the Steam fans. They are called MMM-SteamDeals & MMM-SteamUpcoming.

SteamDeals shows current deals in the Steam store.
https://github.com/badubada/MMM-SteamDeals

MMM-SteamUpcoming shows upcoming games.
https://github.com/badubada/MMM-SteamUpcoming/.

Both modules provide a lot of filter features for your own use case.
They work separately but provide in tandem the best user experience to my mind.

Feel free to use and to adapt it to our use case. If you have any comments or suggestions for improvements just let me know.

Have a nice weekend!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on my MagicMirror setup for a while, but I keep hitting walls. I want it to do more than just show the date, weather, and news. Ideally, I’d love it to automate home devices, adjust the room temperature automatically, and give smart reminders. Right now, it feels static and I’m not sure where to start.

Has anyone faced similar challenges? What’s the best way to add real home automation features to a MagicMirror without making it too complicated? I’d really love to hear your experiences.

Hi Folks,

I would like to present you my first module named “MMM-REnergy”.

It provides up to date statistics about the transition of the energy system towards a renewable one for the test case Germany with the scope to expand it to each single European country.

Feel free to use and to adapt it to our use case. If you have any comments or suggestions for improvements just let me know.

Have a nice weekend!

https://github.com/badubada/MMM-REnergy

This is more of a FYI /fix /workaround than a troubleshooting issues/question.

Recently, the api.linqconnect.com API endpoint has started blocking certain User Agents, including axios (and curl).

Using a custom User Agent to impersonate an actual web browser bypasses this block.

I created a pull request for this:

https://github.com/evanhsu/MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu/pull/23/changes/d35c1bd93c5953215d9cad162085cf430eed6b4c

Hello,
I’d like to show you my new module MMM-Eventim, which displays Eventim’s events and concerts for the next 30 days. You can configure your favorite venues, select the city, and search by genres such as “Indie” or “Rock.” Here’s the link to the repository:
https://github.com/kodejak/MMM-Eventim

A preview looks like this:
MMM-Eventim preview

Best regards,
kodejak