2 Display Mirror for more views

saljoke

This is really interesting!!!
I see only one rpi with two hdmi… how do you control on magicmirror software position of modules and only one module reversed? On future I’d like to try it too…
My compliments!!!

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 :-)