Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Fresh Install
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@sdetweil
ThanksNot possitive, but since it was last year, then version is prob 2.6?
OS is Jessie for sure as it was built a few years back.It had the auto npm that always worked… but even forcing a start does nothing, and is why I assumed that the version was so out of date, it simply crashed?
That’s me away to fire it back up and try your suggestions first, and worse case, I will start from fresh again with new OS, and your install script, and hope I can migrate my CSS stuff over from the present MM folder… which I will obviously move and rename first.
Will update on how I got on.
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@johnnyboy ok, watching for your feedback
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Hey up Amigo… Yeah, all’s well here across the pond… how’s things with you? Hope you keeping well, and keeping yourself busy?
Yeah, as you can tell, I aint been around here a while, and kinda lost interest in my MM, and it has been off for a year, but seems such a waste being there with all that kit inside, being nothing more that a mirror, so felt the need to re-kindle that passion I had initially with it.
I did occasionally drop in here whenever I could, just to see you guys, and what y’all been up to… but life was just too busy and finding the time to play, was few and far between.
Hopefully, following @sdetweil’s instructions, I will get my MM back to life, and regain my interest?
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@johnnyboy said in Fresh Install:
Hopefully, following @sdetweil’s instructions, I will get my MM back to life, and regain my interest?
I can’t speak to your interest but you will get up and running following his directions.
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@sdetweil said in Fresh Install:
@johnnyboy ok, watching for your feedback
Okay, I renamed original MM folder, and did your install - bash -c “$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/raspberry.sh)”
This took a long time and initially thought Pi had froze, so went off and did a few things.
Came back and looked as if everything installed, and it was awaiting me to enter y/n about splashscreen/autostart… so tried to enter y… but the Pi had froze by that point.Pulled the power, and Pi restarted, then went to desktop, and then to MM… so I take it that all went well?
I checked version and OS — 2.11.0… Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.11 { Stretch }
So, is that it?.. has it all went okay? and I can now start playing about adding/changing modules?
How do I change screen to Portrait again?
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@johnnyboy well, the last two steps didn’t finish, pm2 (autostart) and screen saver
u can find separate scripts on my repo for those
system change the screen to portrait? that changed too from boot long ago?
https://clevertap.com/blog/using-raspberry-pi-to-build-a-commercial-grade-wall-information-dashboard/#:~:text=To change the orientation%2C set,display_rotate%3D3 and reboot again. -
u can find separate scripts on my repo for those
Will do those
system change the screen to portrait? that changed too from boot long ago?
https://clevertap.com/blog/using-raspberry-pi-to-build-a-commercial-grade-wall-information-dashboard/#:~:text=To change the orientation%2C set,display_rotate%3D3 and reboot again.Ok, I went to the Boot/config.txt… entered the display_rotate=1 and tried to save but says cannot?
Rebooted but still in landscape and my entry not saved in boot.Where am I going wrong?
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@johnnyboy stuff in /boot, /etc are protected, so you have to use the sudo comand
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Sorry … I must have missed something?Pi@raspberrypi:~ S sudo nano/boot/config.txt
sudo: nano/boot/config.txt : command not found
Pi@raspberrypi:~ S sudonano/boot/config.txt
Bash: sudonano/boot/config.tx : no such file or directory
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FWIW, I would have started with a fresh image. whenever I’m working with a system that’s not been used in a while, I grab what I can and start the OS over fresh, it just seems to work better.
