Starter problem

[strawberry 3.141]

@kurt are you sure you have a config file in /home/pi/MagicMirror/config

[kurt]

@strawberry-3.141 I’m allready working on that mistake.
you a right, don’t know who took this fike from that place.
Change the config, file and place over there.
Mystery…
Thanks
Kurt

[kurt]

@strawberry-3.141
I’m working with File Zilla to transfer the files.
By now I guess he the one who makes the config folder dissapear. Have you ever heard of something like that? or can you recommend an other tool to upload files? I tried Cyberduck, but won’t work.
Thanks

[strawberry 3.141]

@kurt im using filezilla or an usb stick

[kurt]

@strawberry-3.141
Anyway, I copied the folder again to the pi.
calender, changed compliments and newsfeed appear.
Do you have an idea, why the weather and the forecast dont show?
Thanks

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 */

var config = {
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"],

	language: 'de',
	timeFormat: 24,
	units: 'metric',

	modules: [
		{
			module: 'alert',
		},
		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar"
		},
		{
			module: 'clock',
			position: 'top_left'
		},
		{
			module: 'calendar',
			header: 'US Holidays',
			position: 'top_left',
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics'
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'compliments',
			position: 'lower_third'
		},
		{
			module: 'currentweather',
			position: 'top_right',
			config: {
				location: 'Vienna',
				locationID: '2761369',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org
				appid: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'weatherforecast',
			position: 'top_right',
			header: 'Das Wetter',
			config: {
				location: 'Vienna',
				locationID: '2761369',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org
				appid: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'newsfeed',
			position: 'bottom_bar',
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "Der Standard",
						url: "http://derStandard.at/?page=rss&ressort=Seite1"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
	]

};

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[strawberry 3.141]

@kurt do you get any errors in the terminal, maybe your api key is incorrect etc.

[kurt]

@strawberry-3.141 Thank you for todays help, can’t find the reason,
and no, I get no messages.
Thanks a lot

[kurt]

@in_a_days
Thank’s a lot for your help, but strawberry allready repaired my mistakes, so by now i’m fine, just thinking about what is the best way to save such a running system, so I can go back when things go wrong and I found out things go very quick wrong :)
So have a nice day and Thank you

[yawns]

@kurt
I would create an archive of the entire magicmirror folder.

cd ~
tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror

[kurt]

@yawns
this is on the Raspi and on which place will he make the archiv ?
And to save it outside the best way is? I#m using Filzilla is this a right tool for this plan?
Thanks

[yawns]

@kurt
This command will create a file called mirror.tar in your home directory on your raspberry. You can copy/transfer it to your computer with filezilla, the same way you did to copy new files to your raspberry

[kurt]

@yawns
perfekt
thank you, I better bring my sheeps to a save place :)

[kurt]

@yawns
Sorry didn’t happen,
he refused “cowardly or yellow” this is the translation I found, to create an empty archiv.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ tar -cvf mirror.tar/MagicMirror
tar: Anlegen eines leeren Archivs wird feige verweigert.
„tar --help“ oder „tar --usage“ gibt weitere Informationen.

[in_a_days]

@kurt

Two things -

1. You’re in the MagicMirror directory. Type this:

cd ~

2. You need a space here:

tar -cvf mirror.tar/MagicMirror

should be

tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror

[kurt]

@in_a_days
sorry but if I write just

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~

nothing happens

[in_a_days]

@kurt

That’s okay! You’re in the right folder now :)

In the previous post your command prompt looked like this:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

Which shows you in the MagicMirror directory. But if your command prompt now looks like this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Then you are back in the correct ‘~’ folder and you can proceed to step 2.

[kurt]

@in_a_days said in Starter problem:

tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror

this is what I get:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -cvf mirror.tar /MagicMirror
tar: Entferne führende „/“ von Elementnamen
tar: /MagicMirror: Funktion stat fehlgeschlagen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
tar: Beende mit Fehlerstatus aufgrund vorheriger Fehler

What do you think?
Thank you

[in_a_days]

@kurt

I apologize, I have not used the tar command before. Remove the ‘/’ before MagicMirror. Try:

tar -cvf mirror.tar MagicMirror

[kurt]

@in_a_days
Thank you everything went qicker than the eye…
what is the name of the file, it should be outside of the MM file in the pi file?

[in_a_days]

@kurt

Great! I’m still very new to this and I’m not using FTP. But there should now be a file named ‘mirror.tar’ in your ‘pi’ directory.