I just tried with the mirror I took off my MM, it doesn’t make much difference if it’s stuck against the display or if there’s a gap, you can go for it ;) And honestly, I prefer without mirror :D

@Canguingo to update from my scripts is a 2 step process, right? upgrade-script.sh will do the git pull and npm install, and refresh npm setup for any modules that might need it it should handle all the work… and give you a trial run of all that… only applying changes if u request them give it a try this works on Mac as well, cut/paste this line into the terminal window on your device bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/upgrade-script.sh)" ------> no changes are made to the local repo or the working copy < --------- if you WANT to actually apply the changes, cut/paste this line into the terminal window on your device bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/upgrade-script.sh)" apply there is a log file (upgrade.log) in the MagicMirror/installers folder…

@tripalreno4 here is how to make the user-friendly web interface to connect you RPi to WiFi network. https://lemariva.com/blog/2019/02/raspberry-pi-cups-printer-server-using-docker. Follow until CUPS installation. After installation, your RPi will create its own wifi access point (AP) if no known wifi identified by RPi. When AP created, User connects to it, goes to http://192.168.27.1 and enter his wifi credentials using simple web interface (scan->select->enter password). Worked for me. I have made some visual adjustment and it looks like: [image: IMG-20200715-223628.jpg]

Ahh well thank you for saving me the trouble of looking into it. Figured it wouldnt be as good just based on the adoption

Hah well that didnt take long… Chromium crashed on me a few times today with the classic “Aw, Snap!” page… but that might be more of an indication that I have an issue with one of the modules and not with how it is displayed. But as far as I know pm2 can be setup to auto-restart so if the “Aw, Snap!” page I’m seeing would cause the node process to crash, pm2 would auto-restart it. tl;dr one difference between the two ways. Chromium doesnt auto-restart on crashes. pm2 would autorestart but might hide the underlying issues if you are not monitoring logs/restarts.

Can i open a few python scripts with MagicMirror. The python scripts must be opened at autostart.

Several years back I built a MagicMirror, Just the Display anyway. Using a 30" LCD TV. Anyway back then I was following the authors general directions. I never got around to encasing it. It was a Japanese Style Frame he built. I did save it to my Hard Drives, but through the years of drive failures and not doing such a good back of it I have been searching for about a week and have found nothing resembling this frame. The frame was somewhat interlocking in the pieces, they were somewhat ornamental, but all done by saw and a lot of sanding. I am not having the time to get back to this wonderful project and of course would update it for the software. If anyone can point me to this frame patterns/ design I can take it from there. Thanks in advance. Ben ARS W4QED

@jvanderen1 this module supports moving modules on notification https://github.com/Toreke/MMM-Dynamic-Modules

Please use the search function. At the moment questions are being asked time and again that have probably already been answered a hundred times by the search at the top right. The problem is that there are 50 solutions to a problem and newcomers are getting more and more confused. [image: 1593356124642-unbenannt.png]

I’m also looking module for my mobdro app?

Hi, another idea may be to look at a kitchen-store. Maybe they have a used kitchen-unit with a glas-window you can take as a front-frame. The frame behind is much easier to built because you need no miter. Just buy the wood for the back-frame in a hardware-store, ask them to cut it into pieces. Paint it as you like, should not be so expensive.

There’s also lots of other ways to get remote access to the Pi so you can edit with normal editors and save there. SAMBA (easy, IMO), or other tools to create a share… Just search and ye shall find.

I was looking for a neat and clean weather module for a magic mirror. I really loved the Dark sky module but now dark sky does not give you new API’s. Does anybody know of any good modules similar to dark sky?

Would be nice to have centrally located variables. I’d suggest posting on github as an issue.

@waladd I have it running with facial recognition, voice control, plex media server, pi hope, mopidy server, Raspotify, and a tons of magic mirror modules, and my rpi4 b 2gb handles quite well… it occasionally hangs during the activation of google assistant but other than that it works just fine…

@hango this way you’ll always have problems updating the respective modules. You would have to reset all of your local changes and fill them in after an update. How do you deal with that?

Super, merci !

@sdetweil Ahhhh… right… I will defo be giving that a look. As you say, saves me playing around trying things in CSS and reloading mirror each time before I see if CSS worked or not… very time consuming! Thanks again Sam… appreciate all your help.

@sdetweil said in Fresh Install: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4231/how-to-add-modules-for-absolute-beginners?_=1592186111922 Many thanks!

@stepan I got lucky, I guess. The circuit boards don’t take up so much room, and they’re in a case that’s way too big for them. If I move the boards a bit, I can get it down to the depth of the monitor itself… of course, that’s playing with stuff that’s at line voltage, and you might not not want to do that.