Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Compatibility with raspberry Pi 5 right now and in the future.
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@sdetweil
I want to upgrade my Magic Mirror from a Pi 3 to the new Pi 5 because my old one takes almost an hour to boot — it’s basically dead already.A lot of the modules I use don’t really get updates anymore.
Do you think I could run into serious problems if I reinstall all of them on the new Pi 5?When I set everything up last time, I had issues with almost every module because of Node.js versions and similar things.
I’m not a coder, so I’m not really able to tweak the modules myself to fix compatibility issues.
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@Linas123 should work…
use my backup script to save all that, install script to put MM on new system
and then restore script to put back your MM setup (modules and all)backup/restore - save to github (recommended) then you can backup to there whenever and restore from there, perfect for a machine move!
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restoreinstall
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scriptsuse a new sd card, then you don’t break anything in the process
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@sdetweil Thank you very much for your answer and great work. You are the person how holds this forum together
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@Hugo the only real thing that is a concern really is the OS. As the Pi foundation (and the community as a whole) continues to move away from old windowing systems into new ones, there may be compatibility issues with underlying tech MM uses as it catches up. As long as node.js and electron moves with the core windowing system we’re fine…
just a dance you do with any open source…
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@Hugo said in Compatibility with raspberry Pi 5 right now and in the future.:
The latest version of MagicMirror requires at least a Raspberry Pi 2, 3, or 4
we have the Pi 5 in the docs too, see https://docs.magicmirror.builders/getting-started/requirements.html
@BKeyport said in Compatibility with raspberry Pi 5 right now and in the future.:
thing that is a concern really is the OS
next fun is coming, debian trixie is already released so it is a matter of time getting a new raspberry pi os wtih trixie …
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@karsten13 No mention of our desktop enviroments in the main release, so I guess it’s up to RPF to what they’re gonna do.
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@BKeyport I just installed on Trixie amd64, 2.32 and 2.33-develop no issues…
course this isn’t raspi… as its not released there yet
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@Linas123 said in Compatibility with raspberry Pi 5 right now and in the future.:
@sdetweil
I want to upgrade my Magic Mirror from a Pi 3 to the new Pi 5 because my old one takes almost an hour to boot — it’s basically dead already.A lot of the modules I use don’t really get updates anymore.
Do you think I could run into serious problems if I reinstall all of them on the new Pi 5?When I set everything up last time, I had issues with almost every module because of Node.js versions and similar things.
I’m not a coder, so I’m not really able to tweak the modules myself to fix compatibility issues.
I have a unit with a 3B+ and I’m having much of the same issue. It seems to just hang and many modules are no longer updating.
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@alex2 see my reply in your other post
