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  anyone figured out how to view the ring video feed, put on MM on demand??
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  there is a new alexa skill to view the live feed from a ring (doorbell, floodlight) camera… on an Echo Show… I’d like to put that on my MM…
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  How to build my photo booth Magic Mirror
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  @cyberphox ,Can you share it (Post Link) Thanks your sharing
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  Favicon ?
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  Hey, maybe you can add a simple favicon to the site and forum ? It’s just a little tip but add a lot of :p
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  Over clock raspberry pi 3 b+
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  Here are some googling of benchmark for alternatives; ATB https://www.geeks3d.com/20180112/tested-asus-tinker-board-vs-raspberry-pi-3-cpu-and-gpu-benchmarks/ RockPi 4 model B https://www.techrepublic.com/article/rock-pi-4-review-is-this-the-raspberry-pi-challenger-youve-been-looking-for/ NanoPi M4 https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8097-nanopi-m4-performance-and-consumption-review/
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  Thanks Admin
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  Thank you for browsing my account. I am very happy to join the community, look forward to sharing many good things. Wishing everyone a good day! Trung
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  Looking for Magic Mirrors to Purchase and Test Our Applications
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  Hi Isil, we are a young start-up and build tailor-made Smart Mirror solutions based on Android. Just get in touch with us! I am looking forward to hearing from you! https://mirrads.de Best regards Peter
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  Bullet Proof Mirror aka Watchdog
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  #Bullet proof mirror and how to enable the pi watch dog. The pi has a watchdog timer circuit built into it that is a prety reasonable means of detecting crashes and forcing an automated reboot. So first we need to enable it. First enable watchdog from /boot/config.txt, adding the following line: dtparam=watchdog=on # Then install watchdog service: sudo apt install watchdog #Uncomment the following line from /etc/watchdog.conf # Uncomment to enable test. Setting one of these values to '0' disables it. # These values will hopefully never reboot your machine during normal use # (if your machine is really hung, the loadavg will go much higher than 25) max-load-1 = 24 max-load-5 = 18 max-load-15 = 12 # ... watchdog-device = /dev/watchdog So basically constant loads and watchdog will kick in not sure what the time base is think its seconds but the above does the job. Then do a reboot and we can check its running by searching the syslog in /var/log for ‘watchdog’ But how do we know its working? We can test with a fork bomb and overload the Pi. If you have done an OC (Over Clock) on your pi do not run this and for anyone this test is your own decision. I have to say that but yeah you know. So what we will do is turn off all the swap so the test ends quicker and it doesn’t thrash your flash. sudo swapoff -a nano pythonbomb.py # import os while(1): os.fork() So we found that watchdog is running in the syslog and now to test. python3 pythonbomb.py Doesn’t take long to swamp the system that one The time base has me confused as its very quick to react on a load test but pretty sure the ping test is a minute. Its good how it is and the default values seem to work well as the highest I have ever seen my pi is just above 3 Ping test I tried this by putting in the IP of my desktop 192.168.1.16 which is local but then I just shut down. And right enough after a minute my computer was no longer available the pi restarted. The only thing I am worried about and I guess this is true that you could enter an IP that may never exist and turn your pi into a rotating boot. Time to put the SD card in a reader and edit your files and remove that watchdog test on another computer I guess. If you don’t have an overzealous internal firewall that putting in your router ip 192.168.1.1 with me would make a good WiFi watchdog Then maybe a internet IP like googles main DNS of 8.8.8.8 might but not sure if you constanty pinging that you may get filtered. 8.8.8.8 is usually what many use just never set up a perm watchdog so honestly can not say bbc.co.uk - 212.58.253.67 did actually take that service down and got bombarded by sysadmins to re-instate and its prob the UK’s unofficial official ping test. etc/watchdog.conf is a standard linux watchdog file http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/psc/watchdog/watchdog-configure.html So you can read up on these. https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/watchdog/watchdog.8.en.html As per usual you can all my stuff on https://github.com/StuartIanNaylor/MagicMirror-Install-Guide-Raspberry-0-to-3
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  [German only] Umfrage zu Smart Mirror Systemen
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  Hi, wir sind ein Smart-Mirror Start-up und bauen maßgeschneiderte Lösungen ( in der Regel für B2B-Kunden). Wofür möchtest du den Spiegel denn nutzen? Bei Interesse einfach mal auf der Webseite vorbei schauen oder ne Mail schicken! PS: Wir werden in Kürze auch eine kleine DIY Serie veröffentlichen und daher auch ein paar Spiegel für Tutorials etc bauen. Wenn du Interesse hast dich einzubringen und vielleicht auch bei der Konzeption / Umsetzung mitwirken willst, kannst du ggf. einen der “Tutorial Spiegel” im Anschluss haben? LG Peter
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  Module installing problem
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  @mykle1 The time different is huge like 40 minutes different. i think the issue is due to the summer/sinter time.
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  Just testing. Please ignore.
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  @yawns Thanks!
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  Virtual Magic Mirror...is it possible?
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  I use Pixel Desktop Image inside of virtualbox, which works great for me. AxLED
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  Gruppo MagicMirror TELEGRAM IN ITALIANO
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  Buonasera a tutti amici ho creato un gruppo telegram riguardante il nostro amato MagicMirror (IN ITALIANO) chiunque sia interessato può unirsi: https://t.me/MIRROR_ITALY vi aspetto!!
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  New Project! I think!
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  @egnos that is on a different mirror project (github smart-mirror, modules here cannot be used there)… I don’t know of a general purpose voice module here (like MMM-Voice) that uses the google speech api
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  Smart contract development
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  Smart contract is a set of instructions that automatically performs the conditions under the agreement. Smart contracts helps in performing the business agreement in a transparent way by avoiding the central authority services, thus strengthens the relationship between two persons where the transactions are being processed. Types : Ethereum smart contracts : By executing smart contract on ethereum blockchain, the data reads and writes can be triggered and can also send data to other smart contracts. The ethereum blockchain is the most used since it gives unlimited processing quality. Hyperledger smart contracts : Hyperledger smart contracts delivers high degree of confidentiality and provides lots of flexibility to the users. Read more about smart contract development ,…
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  YAPi0 Installer Stretch Lite
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  What you can do is add a script line to run-start-sh Call it xdotool.sh so you would have sh xdotool.sh after if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then #If not set DISPLAY is SSH remote or tty export DISPLAY=:0 # Set by default display fi sh xdotool.sh & node serveronly $1 xdotool.sh xdotool.sh contains export DISPLAY=:0 sleep 25 xdotool search --onlyvisible --class "chromium" key ctrl+F5 The above will make Chromium refresh on any config.js changes or any restart of the server. If have been banging my head against a brick xorg / plymouth combination for no reason than to get a smooth splash screen all the way till the browser displays. This seems far more trouble than its worth. I included lightdm as thought that might make things easier but might drop it as it seems to make no difference and just adds bloat. https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ is excellent for external control just haven’t spent much time with it yet with my plymouth waste of time.
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  MMM-MovieInfo
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  Lols it would seem so, as so far much effort but no completed magic mirror, but much fun Its been really interesting introduction to nodejs and a whole previously hidden browser console. I am still banging my head with this PiZero as really with any complexity the proc load goes crazy. Great if you keep it relatively simple, but being trying ‘other’ browsers to be lighter and to my surprise chromium is by the the best. Midori & Epiphany even after java problems or bad animation are still no lighter from what I am seeing in Top. Its a tremendous project and I will bung it a donation when I have a bit of cash.
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  3 different Alexa modules, which one is the best?
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  @romain I have the exact same problem and can’t seem to find any brief explanation. Did you manage to sort out Alexa yourself ?
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  Touch overly VS. "Smart Glass"
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  @cowboysdude Hi, I have my MM up and running but can’t seem to get my 42” IR Touch Frame to adjust from Landscape mode to Portrait. I swipe up but the cursor moves left. I installed Xinput but not having any luck How did you get you IR calibrated? Cheers!
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  Can you call a module multiple times with different parameters?
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  @sdetweil Yeap works just the same. Starting to get to grips with things Pages just suspends and restarts scripts for each page they are allocated. So it just needs to be referenced once in pages.