@nvkhq Hi, did you find suppliers in France ?

I use to use my rpi3 which had retropie install on it also as a plex server and had torrent software on it, I used it like that for around 8 months and everything was fine but the only problem I had is I use to take the pi to friends houses alot at weekends then the kids use to moan that they couldn’t watch anything on plex whilst I was out lol.
But it seems retropie uses less resources when idle than magic mirror does.
For example if I enter “top” on my magic mirror electron is running twice and cpu usage is around 25-30%.
Retropie on the other hand idles around 1-3% only even going up a couple of percent whilst streaming to my smart tv.
I think I’ll just have to pull out one of my spare memory cards and see what happens I think.
For sure I’ll post back my results here just for everyone else’s information:)
Cheers

Where do you live?
Lately I installed Raspian and MM for somebody in my country who had problems with installing.
The costs were only the sd card and a stamp.
Maybe there is somebody in your country willing to do the same.
Peter

@E3V3A great thanks, can’t wait to get up and running!! Thank you!

@Peter said in Which Voice Control module is fit for me?:

@E3V3A I learned from this forum that Jessie works better with MM than Stretch, thats why I use Jessie.

Yeah, I never had any problem with Stretch, so I think that is just an artificial impression due to less info available, that is based on it. I haven’t seen any facts backing that up. Actually, as a distribution concerned, most stuff just works and what doesn’t is usually the problem of the user (me). No system works out-of-the-box unless you use some pre-compiled image. We hate those, don’t we!?

Ein bisschen Eigeninitiative wäre schön und ist eigentlich auch Grundvoraussetzung für Programmierer allgemein.

Open Source bedeutet, dass der Quellcode für jeden frei zugänglich ist. Jeder kann ihn einsehen, kopieren, verändern und Vorschläge zur Verbesserung machen.

Bisschen googlen und recherchieren - führt auch meist schneller zu Ergebnissen. Und bitte beim Thema bleiben, idealerweise auf Englisch.

Es gibt hier mehrere Threads dazu, wie man anfängt. Das hängt auch ein bisschen von der Hardware ab und was du vorhast.

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/category/28/tutorials

@E3V3A said in My result about voice control:

a. disable/pause the music
b. lower the volume significantly

In a quiet environment, voice accuracy is nearly flawless. In a noisy environment, accuracy is significantly reduced. In a loud environment, accuracy is nearly non existent. :-/

the file needs to be config.js, the existing file config.js.sample is just a sample and will be ignored

Drill holes in the top and in the bottom for a chimney effect. Heat goes always upwards.
You can check your temp easy with MMM-stats, it tells you the temp of your cpu and uptime and so on

Hallo freut mich auch mal Deutsch hier zu lesen, ich habe alle meine Module in MMM-voice integriert aber das funzt gut nur in Englisch. Seit ein paar Tagen experimentiere ich mit Kalliope das gibts in versch. Sprachen und bisher sind die Ergebnisse ganz gut. Ich kann euch informieren wenn ich weitere Tests abgeschlossen habe.

Go here for code + info
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6615/kalliope-assistant-mm

@budwha There’s no difference installing the GA outside MM. MMM-Google Assistant uses an updated GA script to communicate with the MM module.

@dvcv said in Magic Mirror fire hazard.:

I have a few modules installed aside from the default ones.

Well, it really depends on the modules themselves. You could have 10 that have little affect on the Pi. However, you could have 1 or two that tax the Pi to it’s limits.

I do have a heatsink but no fan. So how does the fan work? Is it constantly on or do you have it programmed to turn on after a certain temp.

You can do it either way. Personally, I have mine on all the time. It keeps my Pi at a nearly constant 42°C. I prefer that to the temperature swings between it being on and off.

@ninjabreadman That is indeed not very simple. It was something I wanted to implement too, but it turned out to be a little more complicated than I initially thought, since the MagicMirror project does not directly support this. But it could be done, and if so a PR or even just an initial implementation would be awesome.

Ontzettend veel modules.
Stuur me anders even een mail: luchtfiets@gmail.com
Peter

@ninjabreadman.

I certainly didn’t expect such a comprehensive reply from anyone form my Hi post.

Thankyou very much indeed.

T

Just out of curiosity: Why would you need 180W output power in a smart mirror?

This guy ( link ) uses a similar amp on his pi, but with less power.

Hi, yes this is exactly what I did for my house.

First of all, i have a connected xiaomi wifi extension plugs, so plug 1 = my screen, plug 2 = the RPI3

when I say “OK Google turn on/off the screen”, it switches on/off the screen according to an http request (WARNING to local IPs on IFTTT) that i ve included on ifttt.

Same thing for the RPI if I want to reboot or switch off or switch on (ssh commands via http requests).

The only thing that I still can’t do, I would like to do is changing the profile with the great plugin profile switcher :
http://192.168.0.136:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION¬ification=CURRENT_PROFILE&payload=“News”

The issue is this is a local IP… I don’t know how to run a script from my server (opened to the internet) that could run this local http request :( is there any function in PHP?

@konradwalsh
Hi Konrad. Although I have 5 panes of glass, I am still working on getting the config right on my first one. I have it running but am trying to get the MyNotes module working. I’m having some difficulties though :(

https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-NOAA also uses the Weather Underground API and it seems to be a very popular module with excellent support from the author