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!

@johnnyboy said in Portrait Mode: Not sure why, but my preferences show exactly the same options as Strech did… there is no Screen Configuration. Yeah, that’s a puzzler. Let me do some research and see if I can’t figure out what’s going on. It’s possible that I forgot a step. How embarassing.

@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.

You should separate those two programs. Sharing a module only identifies a program. I tried it on my music device and it worked.

The mirror in the office has an electrical outlet behind it. It makes for a very clean installation. I put a hardware switch on the outside of the frame to turn the system on & off. I think this is how I’m going to go from now on. Having a switch on the mirror with an external plug is convenient and lets you swap out various lengths of power cord. [image: 1591705639828-external-plug.png] All of my mirrors have a power strip inside the frame. It gives me multiple outlets, surge protection and enough juice to power the Pi. Wire the power strip to the power socket, leave the power strip turned on, control the power via external switch.