Modifying the Config File

[jimb]

Sam, beating head against rock… local host didn’t work. I was able to resolve an IP address, but it appeared to be a v6 that would.t work with ssh. I don’t know the next step.

[jimb]

Sam, since I’m not making any progress on the weather module I’m going to remark all the lines out for now and move on to other modules.

[sdetweil]

@jimb ok the address was probably raspberrypi.local

you need to disable ipv6 on the pi, in the network settings of the pi config under the desktop menu
no reason to have ipv6 in a home environment

[jimb]

Sam, no joy on either suggestion. Would it be worth it to start the MM install over again. I couldn’t ‘remark’ out the lines, just caused an error with the config file.

I bought the Rasberry Pi with a pre-populated SIM. Not how to get it in virgin state.

[sdetweil]

@jimb you can just copy the config.js.sample over/instead of config.js

cd ~/MagicMirror/config
mv config.js config.js.save
cp config.js.sample config.js

now MM is back to new, and we saved the config you have

[jimb]

Sam, OK the sample file has been renamed to just config.js. When running the new config with ‘npm start dev’ the weather section now says 'loading on both lines (current & forecast) and it still has two entries with "401 unauthorized). Also, error with “could not load data” on two lines. Should I add my API ID to both sections of the config or?

[sdetweil]

@jimb good place to start.

[BKeyport]

@jimb https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/configuration.html would be great to read - tells you how to set up the default modules to run. Once you get that, you can get going on any replacements you’d like to run.

[jimb]

BKeyport, thanks for the hint! I have worn out the config docs reading 'em. No matter what I do I can’t past the “401 unauthorized” when MM tries to load the weather data. I get a partial diplay of the weather stuff. Sam has been more that patient with me and I’d hate to wear out my welcome here.

Does anyone know how to get the Pi back to the start? I feel like I’m not going to make real progress until I can use the IP address to SSH into the Pi so I can copy the config file here so it can be seen. I didn’t make a note of it when I ‘built’ the Pi.

[sdetweil]

@jimb open a terminal window, ctrl-alt-t,on the desktop

type

ip addr

press enter

you should get both the ipv4 and ipv6 addresses of the pi

then type

hostname

enter

should give you the pi hostname on the network, you should be able to use this in the ssh command

ssh  {username}@{hostname}

{x} means substitute the value of the thing x for the whole string