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  {HowTo} turn on/off your monitor (Time based, PIR/Button, App)
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  Thanks @cruunnerr. In my case, no LED involved hence should be simpler I run PIR.PY externally (via PM2) to call monitor on/off shell script and everything seems to work fine i.e.: turn screen blank and back on does work. No error reported. Its just the adding your script does not seems to make any difference, the turn on still instant. Here is my PIR.py file #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import time import RPi.GPIO as io import subprocess io.setmode(io.BCM) SHUTOFF_DELAY = 15 # seconds delay to turn off PIR_PIN = 17 # Pin 11 on the board TURNON_DELAY = 10 # seconds delay to turn on def main(): io.setup(PIR_PIN, io.IN) turned_off = False last_motion_time = time.time() while True: if io.input(PIR_PIN): last_motion_time = time.time() sys.stdout.flush() if turned_off and time.time() > TURNON_DELAY: turned_off = False turn_on() else: if not turned_off and time.time() > (last_motion_time + SHUTOFF_DELAY): turned_off = True turn_off() time.sleep(.1) def turn_on(): subprocess.call("sh monitor_on.sh", shell=True) def turn_off(): subprocess.call("sh monitor_off.sh", shell=True) if __name__ == '__main__': try: main() except KeyboardInterrupt: io.cleanup() Here is the monitor_off.sh #! /bin/bash export DISPLAY=:0 xset dpms force off And Monitor_on.sh export DISPLAY=:0 xset dpms force on
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  Unsolved Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult
  magic mirror raspberry pi raspberry pi 1 serveronly problems running mm • • MMRPi1

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  for some reason im having the same problem and it wont load the browser from the shell script. not sure why
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  How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero)
  raspberry pi zero pizero pi0 pi1 • • Wieber

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  @asaxena11 sudo wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb sudo apt-get install npm My problem: I made fresh installation of whole magic mirror about 2 weeks ago because I had a problem with screen size - have huge black part of screen which is “covering” right modules. I tried electronOptions, modifiyng the /boot/config.txt and without luck. I am running 2.4.1 on fresh installation of Stretch Lite
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  How can i prepare my rasbian for installing MagicMirror, MMM-AssistantMk2, MMM-Hotword, MMM-NotificationTrigger without errors?
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  @markv Install Raspbian Stretch with Desktop apt update and upgrade. Install MM (manual installation is recommended.) I think those are enough.
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  Web viewer / http request
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  I think he wants to display the constantly changing time table of his school? Have you looked here to see if there’s a module you could use? Otherwise I’d try the MMM-iFrame module.
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  When do you need quotes?
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  Those are different types of variables: The first one is a number the second one a string. Boolean only has the values true and false which are exactly the same as writing 1 and 0. the true and false statement is there for readability in the code but gets replaced by 1 and 0 when executing the program So when you put quotes to the number it is a text that includes this number, but you need it as a number you can use for example for calculations (obviously convertions are possible) For strings usually you can use either double or single quotes and both will work. it is usually a thing of consistency (which on is already used) which one you choose. However there are a couple advantages in using double quotes. JSON notation is written with double quotes (although it might work with single quotes aswell) double quotes are more convenient when your already familiar with other programming languages like C that often use double quotes for strings for people without programming experience double quotes are already familiar from their language where a text is marked with double quotes aswell When you need a single quote in the text you can write "It’s a boy", but you would have to write ‘It’s a boy’ using single quotes to mark that the single quote does not end the string. However when you use double quotes in the string to mark a text inside it’s the other way around : you could write ‘Simon says: “I am happy”’ but with double quotes you need to write “Simon says: “I am happy”” Hope I could clear the confusion a bit.
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  Sync private iCloud calendar with MagicMirror
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  @Albinolan but in icloud calendar Birthday calendar have not option to public. it’s marked as others @justjim1220 i’ve tried also this in gmail i’ve copied url for birthday calendar (public url to this calendar) and add it to my calendar module { symbol: “calendar”, url: “https://calendar.google.com/calendar/xxxxxxxxxxxx” }, but it’s not showing any upcomming birthday ok i’ve made temporary solution but it’s not ideal … what i’ve done - open Google Calendar - Export and Import exported all calendars to .ics i’ve copied birthday calendar to rpi (using scp birthday.ics pi@:MagicMirror/modules/calendars) in config.js i’ve creaded new entry for newly created calendar. problem is it’s static so if you want to add new birthday you have to edit file birthday.ics
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  Is Magic Mirror something like X-Server is started after automatic log in and then X-clients are launched from some predefined places?
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  I think this response is roughly what you’re looking for. The short version is “Magic Mirror is a web application, written in Javascript, that runs on NodeJS, using Electron to display the interface.”
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  where are the pictures for the weather forecast modules?
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  My bad, it isn’t font awesome for the weather module. The icons gets gathered from the openweather api : https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions
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  Installing MM on RPi v1 type B
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  Hello All, first of all, I am new to Raspberry Pi and NodeJs. So, please accept my silly doubts and I would be thankful. I am trying to understand whether I can run MM on my RPi which is 2014 model v1 type B. I am trying to follow guidelines but got stuck at “sudo npm install”. It’s giving me so many errors like “npm ERR! Error: Method not allowed”. Rest I could install and run well. I have been suggested to execute MM in server only mode. I did that but chromium/midori shows black screen. Please help…!!
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  Ip whitelist
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  @hriereb You’re welcome, mate.
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  Monitor aspect ratio
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  Hello everyone, I recently needed to buy a monitor, but my friend said that among the features of the monitor you should consult before purchasing it, one feature that should always be focused on is the aspect ratio of the monitor, as it will indicate the geometry of the monitor. . So, monitor aspect ratio, which one should I choose for my monitor? Updated: I found some answers from this article: https://sguru.org/monitor-aspect-ratio-to-choose-your-monitor/, the aspect ratio of a monitor is the relationship between the number of horizontal pixels and the number of vertical pixels. This is the fastest way to verify whether our new monitor will be more squared or more rectangular in its physical form. And different aspect ratios are more suited to certain activities, independent of the final resolution of the monitor. This is a very professional topic, I learned a lot and I hope to help you too.
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  ipWhitelist HowTo
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  That doesn’t sound like an ipWhitelist problem. Did you install MMM-Remote-Control per the instructions? If so, what exactly are you getting your error message on and what are the IPs of your magicmirror and device?
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  Consolidate logging to browser console
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  I wanted to share a simple approach to unify logging across module components that I found incredibly useful during development. This will put all* logging in a browser console and remove the need to monitor pm2/pi console logs. In your main module code (MMM-ABC.js), where you define your sockets simply add: if (notification === 'HELPER_MESSAGE') { if (this.config.debug === 1) { Log.info(payload); } //Receive a message, log the payload to the browser console. } In your node_helper.js module, construct and send messages: if (self.config.debug === 1) { apiMessage = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD>>HH:mm:ss.SSSZZ') + ' [node_helper] << your log message content here >>'; self.sendSocketNotification('HELPER_MESSAGE', apiMessage); } Hope this helps on your development journey! *any code errors / exceptions will still throw to the raspberry pi console / pm2
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  Core documentation?
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  Very good question! Other people have asked about this. I have asked about this. The answer is no. It would really help the project (and possibly development) to have that. I’ve worked on this for ~3 months now, and I’m still clueless as to how it all hang together… Therefore, there will not be much contribution from my side…
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  MagicMirror ready to boot Image
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  Hi, thanks for this! Is it possible to integrate Home Assistant or Domoticz on the same pi? If yes, how?
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  Basic Core System of Magicmirror
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  This might come late, but here’s some explanation if you read from bottom towards up: https://smartmirrorprojectblog.wordpress.com/