MagicMirror on Trixie

Rags

I took the plunge. My five year old MagicMirror ground to a halt as far as Display resolution, Rotation and DIsplay control are concerned. Everything was working great on my Raspberry Pi 3B+. An unfortunate rpi-update broke everything. I struggled to restore Bullseye, and it was a shock to realise it is not easy to find the right official image.
I then tried Bookworm, the three issues continued to remain unsolved.
I then decided to install Trixie. Most of the transition of MM was smooth, ofcourse with a few hicks, but getting the display resolution and rotation was the most frustrating part.
I got it working finally. I have restored the Display resolution and the rotation succesfully.
I will shortly upload the entire process which was not only exhausting but of great learning value.
I need to recover the GPIO Notification Module which isnt working and resulting Motion control of monitor using RCWL0516.

plainbroke

@Rags
Did you get it to work like it did on bookworm?
Mine on Trixie looks like it goes into screensaver mode, but I have made sure screen blanking is turned off in raspi-config
I ran Sam’s screensaver off script. Mine just keeps blanking the screen the exact same image works fine on bookworm but blanks on trixie… Really frustrating.

sdetweil

@plainbroke yes, they changed the UI manager AGAIN…

plainbroke

@sdetweil
So what is the fix? or is there one even.?

BGH_H

Mine was running on an old version since 2021. I noticed it got really slow so I did the same. I’m still in the process reinstalling and updating on a 4b with 8gb.

I had troubles with turning the mirror off and on with a webcam usb camera based on motion. I (and ChatGPT mostly) rewrote the mmm-motiondectortor to be compatible with the new os. Vcmgen isn’t supported anymore. I used external execute script to power of and on with wlandr display driver. ChatGPT is actually pretty good at reading and rewriting .js if you give it the right inputs.

plainbroke

I had to remove this from my config.js to get 2.33 on Trixie to run my 50+ modules on my MM using Pages by @sdetweil

let config = {
	ignoreXOriginHeader: true,
	ignoreContentSecurityPolicy: true,
	electronOptions: {
	webPreferences: {
	webviewTag: true,
	}
},

Don’t even remember why I had to put them in there in the first place.