Installing on a Pi Zero

[sdetweil]

@camcooper151515 it should have asked if you wanted to disable screensaver.

anyhow, on the same site as the install script there is a command to turn it off now, down near the bottom of the page

[camcooper151515]

@sdetweil thanks that worked again. Is there a reason that my weather is not showing by default? Does it have to be setup first before it shows?

[sdetweil]

@camcooper151515 yes, some setup. needs to.know where u are for sure. some providers need u to register to request data

[camcooper151515]

@sdetweil this thing is working great man I’ve been tinkering around with it over the weekend. Thanks so much again for the install but another question I know I know I apologize but your like king right now. How can I access the custom.css file?

[sdetweil]

@camcooper151515 it’s a text file
MagicMirror/css/custom.css

[Dimasua]

@andyc7687 Thank you for your work and sharing with the community!
I would like to try it with a Raspberry Pi3A+. Will it work?

[sdetweil]

@Dimasua use my installer script, listed as alternative install method , see

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

[Dimasua]

@sdetweil Another question, how I can restart the mirror from the command line? Didn’t find that information.

[sdetweil]

@Dimasua if u said yes to pm2,

pm2 start 0

If it does not start on boot, the run the fixuppm2 script from my site,

If not pm2, then npm start from the MagicMirror folder

[stanvv]

I’ve used quite some of these manuals before, most without succes cause after a few weeks they all seem to crash/freeze screen. Finally I have a setup that’s working:

• install raspian lite
• use this script to install MM: https://github.com/pureartisan/magic-mirror-raspbian-lite
• update npm with npm install -g electron --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root
• increase swap

sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff
sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile
CONF_SWAPSIZE=1024
sudo dphys-swapfile setup
sudo dphys-swapfile swapon
sudo reboot

• adjust /boot/config.txt with the following settings for overclock:

arm_freq=1085
gpu_freq=530
over_voltage=8
sdram_freq=500
over_voltage_sdram=1

• I also monitor the behaviour of the RPI’s performance in Home Assistant (in case it would crash, I have an indicator what went wrong) with: https://github.com/Sennevds/system_sensors

So far it -finally- works like a charm!