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    Dual Monitor with Raspberry Pi official display

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      JustaGuyWithaMM last edited by

      I had the idea of using a 7" official Raspberry Pi display connected to my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ as a second MM screen. Its function would be to display upcoming events in greater detail. This would also make use of the space that the Raspberry Pi is taking up on my desk (it will be a display/case combination). Is this possible? I was wondering how feasible this would be before buying the display. A few issues I feel may arise would be:

      1. How MM would handle different screen sizes
      2. Displaying different MM pages on each of the displays

      I am new to MM and coding in general, so any input would be greatly appreciated.

      Thanks!

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        sdetweil @JustaGuyWithaMM last edited by sdetweil

        @justaguywithamm MM will display the same stuff on both monitors, and no sharing/page flipping differently

        so if u have 3 pages, then u have the same 3 pages on each monitor.

        you ‘could’ run multiple instances of MM on the same machine from different folders
        MagicMirror1 on large monitor and MagicMirror2 on smaller monitor
        two different config.js , and custom.css
        ASSUMING you can have two monitors on the same machine… I have two HMDI connected monitors on my Pi4 and it works great

        also

        using chrome as the browser (instead of electron) you can use local (on the same system as the browser) css to customize the experience
        this is like for daughter/son showing MM on their own computers… one can have one color scheme and another a different one and MagicMirror doesn’t know

        https://www.trysmudford.com/blog/chrome-local-overrides/

        but, if they are coming from the same system and connected to the same system then this doesn’t help.

        Sam

        Create a working config
        How to add modules

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          ericneville @sdetweil last edited by ericneville

          @sdetweil said in Dual Monitor with Raspberry Pi official display slope game:

          @justaguywithamm MM will display the same stuff on both monitors, and no sharing/page flipping differently

          so if u have 3 pages, then u have the same 3 pages on each monitor.

          you ‘could’ run multiple instances of MM on the same machine from different folders
          MagicMirror1 on large monitor and MagicMirror2 on smaller monitor
          two different config.js , and custom.css
          ASSUMING you can have two monitors on the same machine… I have two HMDI connected monitors on my Pi4 and it works great

          also

          using chrome as the browser (instead of electron) you can use local (on the same system as the browser) css to customize the experience
          this is like for daughter/son showing MM on their own computers… one can have one color scheme and another a different one and MagicMirror doesn’t know

          https://www.trysmudford.com/blog/chrome-local-overrides/

          but, if they are coming from the same system and connected to the same system then this doesn’t help.

          i got it, thank you for the explanation.

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