Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult

MMRPi1 · Jun 29, 2017, 2:01 PM

I’ve got a progress bar that’s progressing slowly, hopefully it will work, though it ma take a while.
Updates to follow…

A Former User · Jun 29, 2017, 2:05 PM

@MMRPi1 good luck to you. :D

MMRPi1 · Jun 29, 2017, 3:46 PM

Alright, it says Magic Mirror installation was successful, but I’m not sure what to do next…

MMRPi1 · Jun 29, 2017, 3:50 PM

It worked!!
Thank you to everyone :-D
Now all that’s left is screensaver, autostart and all that…
Thanks again!

cowboysdude · Jun 29, 2017, 10:17 PM

@MMRPi1 Thank you for your patience! :) Glad you got it running now some advice…

IF you have a working config before you make ANY changes to it copy it to config.bak that way you’ll always have a GOOD working config file…

Good Luck!

Mykle1 · Jun 30, 2017, 12:45 AM

@cowboysdude said in Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult:

IF you have a working config before you make ANY changes to it copy it to config.bak that way you’ll always have a GOOD working config file…

This is excellent advice!

MMRPi1 · Jun 30, 2017, 9:20 AM

@cowboysdude Thanks.
This is the situation:
The default config file is working (I have it backed up) though when I run it in server only the clock and weather work fine, but all the other modules say “Loading…”.
I did try to customise it, but got the “No config file”, so either I have syntax errors or the sources aren’t right…
Talking of, does anyone know of a list of compatible news feeds and the like?
Thanks again

A Former User · Jun 30, 2017, 10:49 AM

@MMRPi1
Can you show your config.js here? It makes easier.
If you got “no config file” however you have a confidence for config.js existence, you might make some syntax error in your config.js.

you can find newsfeed rss in most news sites.
If some site has links of “RSS”(or small orange squared antenna icon), you can use that url to your newsfeed.
By example, If you want to get news from “The Washington Post”, google “washington post rss”. Then the result pages direct you to WP rss page. get a link what you want, apply that to your news-feed module config.
Most of the RSS could be compatible with that module. Even RSS of personal blogs also.

Some browsers(Firefox, IE7…) support finding RSS on current page. You can see RSS mark in addressbar if current page has valid RSS link.

You can check the reference. (I doubt there are some missing links.)
https://www.repeatserver.com/RSSFeedList.aspx
http://www.uen.org/feeds/lists.shtml

MMRPi1 · Jun 30, 2017, 8:25 PM

Good news!
The config file is (mostly) working (it needed a reboot) and I’ll configure it until I’m satisfied at which point I need to figure out how to keep it fullscreen, disable screen timeout and do the autostart and all that…
In the meantime, thanks to everyone for their help :-D

cowboysdude · Jun 30, 2017, 8:25 PM

@MMRPi1 said in Magic Mirror on the Raspberry Pi 1, agonizingly difficult:

Good news!
The config file is (mostly) working (it needed a reboot) and I’ll configure it until I’m satisfied at which point I need to figure out how to keep it fullscreen, disable screen timeout and do the autostart and all that…
In the meantime, thanks to everyone for their help :-D

You’re very welcome. :) Enjoy!