My setup: Raspberry Pi 3b+, Acer 17" VGA monitor, HDMI->VGA converter from Pi to monitor, PIR sensor (script uses vcgencmd display to turn on/off), monitor is portrait mode (so turned 90 degree). My issue: when the PIR sensor detects motion, the Pi script enables the display. The monitor tries to “auto-config” at that time. Most of the time, all is well but sometimes, the monitor auto-configs such that the magic mirror image shown is shifted up a bit. That is, the monitor seems to sync say 2cm down from the top of the expected image. At the bottom of the monitor, you can see a dim black 2cm bar where the bottom 2cm of the image should be. Hope that’s clear. :) I tried playing with hdmi_* settings in the Pi boot/config.txt file but have had no luck. It’s an old monitor but when used with my windows PC, it worked fine.

Hello guys, i have a question with reference to the Magic Mirror module MMM-CalenderExt2. Is it possible to change the with of the single days in the view configuration “month”. Thanks. Best regards.

@lhops for a small protocoll add the following lines to crontab (enter crontab -e at the prompt): @reboot echo “---- start ----” >> proto.txt */5 * * * * date >> proto.txt */5 * * * * vcgencmd measure_temp >> proto.txt That moves the date and the temperature to a file called proto.txt every 5 minutes (and an eyecatcher at the start of the raspberry)

@karsten13 thanks for the info. so i guess for the docs page it will be a “do it via the ui” info instead of the good old “edit this file” :-)

@bugsounet Sorry, i am not sure i understand. Is it your wish that people not mention your modules on this forum? If so, I was unaware and apologize. But, I don’t understand why. It is certainly not part of the MIT license under which your modules are distributed. Still, I suppose out of courtesy one might wish to conform to your request. Anyway, I’m a bit confused and perplexed and sorry if I did something wrong.

@karsten13 I would normally agreee, but this is only to satisfy weird demands on SSL, not for any form of security and the mirror is not externally available.

@sdetweil Ok thanks much I’ll try

@jalibu see https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/2545

@sdetweil I can’t find it (I’ve reverted to previous anyway), but bullseye actually runs OMX with a couple of library fixes, if I recall right, just takes a symlink or two to match up the shared libraries.

@sdetweil Thanks! I think I can manage that.

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@kristjanesperanto Thanks, I’ll look into it.

@extra u can use my code as the base for what u need, but it does 95% splitting lines easy in JavaScript, split() how to handle the different lines… that’s your design and implementation my code assumes one blob of text.

I had a similar issue whereby my connection kept dropping, my issue was due to poor WiFi connectivity so I created a simple bash script to restart the network connection every so often to bring it back onto the network. Here’s how I did it. #!/bin/bash # The IP for the server you wish to ping (8.8.8.8 is a public Google DNS server) SERVER=192.168.240.254 # Only send two pings, sending output to /dev/null ping -c2 ${SERVER} > /dev/null # If the return code from ping ($?) is not 0 (meaning there was an error) if [ $? != 0 ] then # Restart the wireless interface ifconfig wlan0 down ifconfig wlan0 up This was inside a file within my home area, the IP address on line 4 is of my router (I couldn’t see a need to ping an internet endpoint in my scenario). The last two lines may need amending depending on which network interface your MM is using. Once that file is created insert a crontab (crontab -e) and insert the following to restart the network connection every 30 minutes (adjust to your needs) */30 * * * * root /home/pi/scripts/wifi_rebooter.sh

@n6ng use sudo raspi-config

@bugsounet said in Automatic Updates: @cliff365 I have done a. Module for this ;) Would be nice to have repository specific auto update functionality in the default module.

@michel-0 Hi, i can provide two possible solutions… Some time ago i wrote a module which listens to serial sockets and sends notifications based on text messages (MMM-Serial-Notifications) received on the console. My gesture sensors are connected to arduino nano boards (with some additional laser distance sensor) which send messages to the pi via usb. The sketches to program the arduino are provided in the example folder. As an alternative i recently connected an APDS-9660 sensor directly to my pi (attention 3,3V) and wrote a small python script (gesture.py) which reads the gestures and sends notifications via the HTTP API of MMM-RemoteControl. The script is not documented at the moment but the configuration is separated to second file. Ich kann zwei Alternativen anbieten. Vor einiger Zeit hab ich ein Modul geschrieben (MMM-Serial-Notifications) , das an seriellen Konsolen lauscht und anhand von empfangenen Textnachrichten Benachrichtigungen an den Spiegel schickt. Meine Gestensensoren hab ich zusammen mit Laser-Distanz-Sensoren an Arduino Nano Boards angeschlossen, die Nachrichten über USB an den Pi schicken. Die Beispiel-Sketches für die Arduino Programmierung sind im “examples” Ordner enthalten. Vor ein paar Tagen hab ich einen APDS-9660 Sensor direkt an den Pi angeschlossen (Achtung 3,3V) und ein kleines Python Skript (gesture.py) geschrieben, dass die Gesten ausliest und über die HTTP-API von MMM-RemoteControl an die Module schickt. Das mehr ein Programmierübung war ist das Skript noch nicht wirklich dokumentiert. Die Konfiguration ist aber in eine separate Datei ausgelagert.

@sdetweil look sdetweil "name": "magicmirror", "version": "2.18.0", "description": "The open source modular smart mirror platform.", "main": "js/electron.js", now i have the right actually version and i have reboot my MM and its working fine now pi@raspberrypi:~ $ node -v v16.13.2

@bigschucks you do realize that putty and termius is SSH clients, right?