@aarish I am sure there are many. problem is that they haven’t been maintained, so little tweaks are needed here and there depending which Alexa thing u try to install…
both Alexa and Google Assistant require interlocking registrations on their respective host sites, which are barely documented and constantly changing…
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:
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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.
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
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.
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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?
@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?
