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!