Yeah, simple solution? Add more light in the room where the mirror is. Another solution is to change the mirror to one that lets less light through (this will obviously also affect everything else displayed on the monitor). And third solution is to get an OLED display that doesn’t have the same backlight issues as normal LED TFT’s has.

@Mykle1 It’s a work in progress. :)

Hi If I need to test, let’s say the default clock in MM. Is it then possible to set up an environment in jsFiddle or liveweave, so I can take the index.html layout and add that to the HTML field, and then add the clock.js to the JS field and then test the settings? If yes, can someone add an example?

@Anthony - That looks like a network outage. The errors show that the NASA module or whatever can’t pull images from the API. And then you lost connection to your mirror. Of course, it could be the Pi shutting off to disconnect the developer tools. Hrm.

You could also take a look at mirr.os. I never played around with it, but it looks nice on the website.

Thanks for the input everyone. I will change the update interval and I guess I will end up installing a roller on/off switch on the power cord same as the one you find on some lamps. This should insure no data transfer through the night or when we’re out. I can just shut it all down.

@frode I thnik “Aptenposten” is just a “NAMED” source of Norway. However news.org is gathering more news from various sources(even blogs) of your country, but just they are not “named” sources.(i can see e24.no at this moment. That is a news site of Norway, right?) You can get more news with country code “no” instead direct definition “source”.

Thx alot :-)

Just started this a few days ago so I’m learning every day, thank you

Thanks René, I will definitely keep an eye on your development, sounds well thought!

@retroflex said in Horoscope!: :slightly_smiling_face: So I guess this is the first module you’ll install: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1370/mmm-horoscope-daily-horoscope Thanks, i will try it… May be i start reading daily 😊 First modules to install were the default modules 😂 then i installed email, etc… But overtall building the case, frame of magic mirror is pending… Finally i decided to bulid Magic Mirror hardware part first… Because installing modules and editing config.js, making changes to how it looks, it is like super extra long process for me… I am a newbie and its hard for me to write the code, edit CSS etc.

This is the video refference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGbfaadASVk It is possible to add pictograms and open “Google Chrome”, “Facebook” or “Media Player” or anything else on your mirror?

It appears the issue has already been raised at the repo. :thumbsup:

I installed MM from the bash command on the magic mirror 2 homepage a few weeks ago. It was working great for a few days, a restart would bring MM back up once it loaded. I finally got around to building the actual enclosure and mirror last night. Plugged everything in and started up the Pi and nothing, Raspbian loads up but no MM. Instead of troubleshooting I did a fresh install of OS and MM. Starts after install but after a reboot nothing. I’ve tried again multiple times with different sd cards and different Pi’s but the same result everytime. Sometimes I can manually load up MM from command prompt but sometimes it doesn’t work at all. Any idea what I’m doing wrong here?

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…

@cyberphox ,Can you share it (Post Link) Thanks your sharing

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

I don’t know if you all appreciate a little humor here but something I found amusing … I’ve been lurking here and plan to start a project soon-ish, but today I got junk-email advertising an LED mirror for the bathroom for less than I could build a project. They started building up the marketing, talking about it being programmable, etc The description was so similar that I was annoyed my project would be passe before it even started. … nope, $130 for a lighted mirror with a timer on the light.

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/

#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