2 Display Mirror for more views

sdetweil

@saljoke running two instances of MM

saljoke

@sdetweil
That’s right and easy to use… I want too in a next experience…

mkloth

@sdetweil how did you get the mirror app run on second display? I have two displays but it’s showing as one screen and I can start mm only on first display.

sdetweil

@mkloth edit the config.js
after the var config, add the electronOptions

var config={
  electronOptions:{
          x:????
  },

where ??? is the width in pixels of your 1st display
mine is 1920 or Pi4 3840.
users that want them stacked (one on top of the other)
should try
y:???
where ??? is the height of the 1st display
instead of x

I run my mm like this all the time so I can work w my editor on main and mm on secondary

mkloth

@sdetweil Thank you for your advice. It works perfectly.

MC

@ruff-hi
the picture is upside down. Sorry for that :-) the white part is a ip cam and normally in the bottom

MC

@saljoke
Hi. Thats right. i only use 1 Pi4 to serve both displays via 2 MM instances. first the originally MagicMirror directory and the second in a MagicMirror2 directory. Both powered up via PM2 and turned off and on via PIR sensor.

The config looks like this:

language: “de”,
logLevel: [“INFO”, “LOG”, “WARN”, “ERROR”],
timeFormat: 24,
units: “metric”,
electronOptions: {fullscreen:true, x:1920},

1920 is the resolution witdh of the main display.

Very easy to handle and good for the electrical consumption :-)