Fresh Install

sdetweil

@johnnyboy ok, watching for your feedback

johnnyboy

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?

Mykle1

@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.

johnnyboy

@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?

sdetweil

@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.

johnnyboy

@sdetweil

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?

sdetweil

@johnnyboy stuff in /boot, /etc are protected, so you have to use the sudo comand
nano is the editor
sudo nano /boot/config.txt

johnnyboy

@sdetweil
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

BKeyport

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.

johnnyboy

@BKeyport
Am I entering the correct text into Terminal?
Is path right? Is spacing right?

Unsure here so trying all sorts to no avail