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    • R Offline
      ruff.hi
      last edited by

      I am still researching about raspberry pi and magic mirror. I want to go the whole hog … but while I wait for Mr Bank to agree, I am playing with a 7" touch screen after watching this youtube vid. It is as cute as pie. I have a working knowledge of SSH (I have a freeNAS server downstairs) and the like … but mm is all new to me. I have finally settled on a way to edit the config …

      1. Copy config to my network
      2. edit file there
      3. insert edited config into pi via ftp
      4. restart mm via ssh
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        sdetweil @ruff.hi
        last edited by

        @ruff-hi get the winscp or bitvise ssh clients, gives u a file manager view over the files on the pi

        double click to edit and save

        if the changes are css , then on mirror press ctrl-r to reload the page
        or restart if U set the consfig to
        address:“0.0.0.0”,
        ipWhitelist:[],
        then any machine i your house can access the MM…
        then u can use chrome on your pc to view changes too (ctrl-r to reload)

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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          ruff.hi
          last edited by ruff.hi

          @sdetweil … thanks for the tip re alternate ssh clients. I will look at that.

          I still need to work out the ipWhitelist thing … but it sounds like I can peek at my mm from any networked pc in the house. Does that include a mac?

          Edit: Got ipwhitelist to work and both wife and I can see the mm from any location inside my network.

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            sdetweil @ruff.hi
            last edited by sdetweil

            @ruff-hi yeh, you can add specific addresses if u want to allow only some, or exclude… all kinds of filtering

            first u gotta GET on you network, THEN find some ip address THEN find some port…
            THEN u gotta find a hack way INSIDE that box… seems like a lotta work for not much typical value…
            I don’t have any passwords used on my MM…

            Sam

            How to add modules

            learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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            • BKeyportB Online
              BKeyport Module Developer
              last edited by

              What I did was to simlink my config.js and custom.css files so I could have them in one directory, and used samba so I could share that directory to windows for editing.

              The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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                sdetweil @BKeyport
                last edited by sdetweil

                @BKeyport another cool idea!
                I got 7 machines running all the time

                Sam

                How to add modules

                learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                • BKeyportB Online
                  BKeyport Module Developer @sdetweil
                  last edited by

                  @sdetweil bonus, with a bit of trickery, I’ve got that directory backing up as needed to GitHub under a private git. 😃

                  The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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                    retroflex Project Sponsor Module Developer
                    last edited by

                    For example if you use this for SSH:
                    https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

                    …you can edit config files etc. on another machine and when you save it asks if you want to upload back to rpi.

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                      ruff.hi
                      last edited by

                      Thx all - lots of interesting suggestions to play around with.

                      I detached the 7" screen from the RPI and now mm won’t start.

                      0|mm       | (electron:30477): Gtk-WARNING **: 06:02:18.928: cannot open display: :0
                      0|mm       | npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
                      0|mm       | npm ERR! errno 1
                      0|mm       | npm ERR! magicmirror@2.13.0 start: `DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js`
                      0|mm       | npm ERR! Exit status 1
                      0|mm       | npm ERR!
                      0|mm       | npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.13.0 start script.
                      0|mm       | npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
                      0|mm       |
                      0|mm       | npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
                      0|mm       | npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-10-24T10_02_18_961Z-debug.log
                      

                      Is this something about having to start the magicmirror in server mode?

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                        ruff.hi
                        last edited by ruff.hi

                        google to the rescue … must remember to google the actual error message and not what you think the problem is.

                        I googled “rpi magic mirror cannot open display” and it displayed some posts about this very issue … one of them contained this suggestion …

                        Ok, there might be a problem with your electron installation.
                        Can you go into your MagicMirror folder and type “node serveronly”?
                        
                        Then, go back to your browser window and type in “localhost:8080”
                        

                        Jump over to the mm folder, mistype ‘note serveronly’ and then ‘node serveronly’ … and my mm is back :)

                        how to I make node serveronly permanent? Embed it in the mm.sh start script?

                        Edit: answer: that worked on reboot.

                        mm.sh now contains …

                        cd ./MagicMirror
                        DISPLAY=:0 npm start
                        node serveronly
                        
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