I’ll have a better understanding how it works

I have been using this docker image and setup to create the container, which works.

this docker image is not maintained anymore, meanwhile the image build fails so the image is old without containing security fixes. Also this image does not contain the latest mm version v2.16.0.

I deployed a service running the Magic Mirror image from that on port 8075.

can you show us this service? kubectl get service <service-name> -o yaml

I wrote a helm chart for running mm in k8s, you find it here.

@cowboysdude cool. what monitor is that with?

Thanks for that

@mayfield I use the bitvise ssh client from my windows machine to edit files on the pi. just double click to edit as always.

then I use notepad++, which has auto indent and good formatting . from my Mac, or Linux machines I use sublime-text as the editor
and vscode is pretty good here too
I don’t edit ON the pi

if u don’t want to edit at all, use my MMM-Config module, which presents a form to fill in
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Config

@sdetweil I guess one could cheat a little by doing something with an animated (slow) colour gradient, assuming that the text will be visible some of the time (in the place where I do it) - but that not much of a solution… (sigh)

@ankonaskiff17 ah, yes. that’s likely fullscreen below, or inserted at the same place, Prime example of fullscreen below being used is MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.

Fullscreen above, I don’t know of anything using it, other than the built in alert module.

@sdetweil @BKeyport just trigggered a question on inheritance. On several occasions when I have Developer Tool up to look at something , I’ll see message text that is roughly “X is inherited from body” or from main. Been a while since I was really poking around in developer tool mode. Think above was in context of CSS. So in event you want to change X, how do you tackle without it having global impact?

@jalibu It’s not a big deal. Once I Googled it and backed out references to Home Depot in my search I found some references that I figured it loosely meant balance as in bank balance or share balance. I follow US stock markets to a certain degree and had never heard the term. One of the thousands of obscure bits of trivia salted away in my brain.

@florjanklancar

Take a look at MMM-CalendarWeek

It can dispaly events from google.

Of course, it is not easy to make a certain educational project without the help of professionals. After all, for each project you need to write a presentation. And PowerPoint presentations writing service can help with this. The writers of this site help me in this and I am always satisfied with my work. I believe that a properly designed and written presentation is necessary for your project to look good. I hope my project on this topic will also be good.

@sdetweil Just thinking might be confusing to someone if they forgot that command, went hunting for it, saw pm2 start mm then don’t know why it won’t start.
First installation I did was the “official” manual installation.
That actually bit me on my second installation which used your installation script. I had the manual installation pm2 start mm set in my head from manual installation. I figured it out pretty promptly but I still like to skim through those first few sections to make sure I didn’t miss/forget a step.

@ankonaskiff17

Yes, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

I wouldn’t even copy the config.txt file from one to another. Just burn a new card, and install programs fresh, copying over data and modifying config as needed.

It is definitely possible to run multiple services on the same pi, as long as the pi is powerful enough.
You mentioned the NAS software has its own .iso - if you used that you’d then have to install magicmirror on top. You may come in to some conflicts there and have to tweak, but definitely worth a shot.
Or if you start with your magicmirror install it is fairly simple to expose a shared folder to the network and have the pi act as a NAS also.
Good luck!

@donkey and do what with the results?
both google assistant and Alexa can answer questions.

I’ve done 500 searches in the last week, working on a technical project, and I can’t think of more than 2 or 3 that could have been done by voice, I have to look thru the results to determine if they are relevant and useful. the title alone wouldn’t help me.

@sdetweil https://youtu.be/r0DlNqzQijY

Have a look at this video

@cowboysdude I want to do one and i am kind of stack. I don t know how to beginn. 😁

@sdetweil Thanks for your fast reply. I will test this out next week. Then I will come back to you to let you know if I have more questions or if I solved it. I really appreciate it!

Actually no, when I had a magic mirror in my bathroom it wasn`t steaming, but maybe it depends on how close the shower is to your mirror. I switched my shower to an old tub after it was refinished and still no problems with the mirror in the bathroom.

@sdetweil said in Is cloning to a new OS possible?:

@tippon clone is ok, but. you will have to do npm install in all the places where there is a package.json file

I had a feeling it would be something like that. At that point I may as well do a fresh installation and just copy the config.js over. No chance of missing a module’s dependencies then, or adding in a module that’s been commented out but not removed, for example.

@bkeyport said in Is cloning to a new OS possible?:

@tippon To speed reinstall - I have my config.js and custom.css symlinked to a common location outside the MagicMirror tree, and a bash script setup to clone and npm install every module I use, and reinstall the symlinks.

easy peasy…

My system backs that up nightly to a private github repository, and bam quick and dirty way to get my system back running when my pi crashes.

That’s a good point, I didn’t think about using it for a backup. I’ve got Github set up, but I haven’t got into the habit of using it properly yet.

A symlink would be really helpful for the MMM-Cryptocurrency module too. Someone’s made some mods to the MMM-Cryptocurrency.js to add functionality. It’s not merged yet, and that’s beyond me for now, so keeping the modified file outside of the folder would stop me from accidentally wiping it.

I might try for a best of both worlds approach - fresh installations on the Xubuntu system, then set up some scripts.

Thanks both :)