Are you tired of editing config.js, or have trouble doing it, see my new module

sdetweil

@DarkV i understand, but that wasn’t the question

the git checkout command should have worked,
but failed.

now i am trying to figure out why. and what to do about it

the command prompt looks different after

cd ~/MagicMirror

then the last time you did a command

so try this way

go to your MagicMirror folder
and do git status

show the results

DarkV

@sdetweil said in Are you tired of editing config.js, or have trouble doing it, see my new module:

git status

junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Config
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Config $ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/main’.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Config $

junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Config $ cd ~/MagicMirror
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~/MagicMirror $ git status
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~/MagicMirror $

sdetweil

@DarkV asking again, how did you install MagicMirror?

DarkV

@sdetweil I think it must have been a script on the net. It was quite a long time ago, between 2022 and 2023. I honestly cannot remember. I found an old config.js from ‎06 ‎October ‎2023

sdetweil

@DarkV ok, my script is the only one I know about and it uses git

lets do this to get a new copy and use your config/modules…
copy paste this section to a terminal window

cd ~
# save MM folder
mv MagicMirror MagicMirror.org
# install new MM (reply N to screen saver/pm2
bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/raspberry.sh)"

once MM is installed again lets make THIS new version look like the old
copy/paste this

# copy files
cd ~
cp MagicMirror.org/config/config.js MagicMirror/config
cp MagicMirror.org/css/custom.css MagicMirror/css
cd MagicMirror/modules
# save the new default module folder
mv default ..
cd ..
# copy all the org modules 
cp -r -p ~/MagicMirror.org/modules .
cd modules
# remove the old default  modules folder
rm -rf default
# move back the new default 
mv ../default .
cd ~/MagicMirror

now
npm start should work