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    undeterred @sdetweil
    last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:38 AM

    @sdetweil Be interesting to read about your experience on installing on the pi0w-2.

    I have a small 4" magicmirror displaying one module at a time using the pi0w. The animations are sometimes laggy however, hence my interest at upgrading the hardware.

    Thanks.

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      musson @undeterred
      last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:13 PM

      @undeterred I am trying to get it working, just got my pi zero w2 today. doesn’t work using the lite version of pi, trying the desktop version now. Not sure I fully understand how chromium is supposed to be installed by the script.

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        sdetweil @musson
        last edited by sdetweil Oct 31, 2021, 5:19 PM Oct 31, 2021, 5:14 PM

        @musson chromium is installed on the full desktop (which is required because the browser draws graphics)

        but the script only sets up for chromium if the electron install fails(sometimes on x86) , or is not available…(armv6l)

        this should be same as pi3…(armv7l)

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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          sdetweil @musson
          last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:17 PM

          @musson mm never works with lite version

          from the doc , under requirements

          NOTE
          
          To run Electron, you need a desktop environment.
          Using a Lite Version of Raspbian will not work.
          

          Sam

          How to add modules

          learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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            musson @sdetweil
            last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:21 PM

            @sdetweil ok, trying desktop now.

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              sdetweil @musson
              last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:25 PM

              @musson mine doesnt come til tuesday

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                musson
                last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:26 PM

                At one point I had MagicMirror working on a lite version, I installed X11 and Chromium but when Electron updated and needed a node.js version that didn’t work on the arm6 CPU I gave up and used a pi 4.
                I want to free up the pi 4 and am hoping I can use the new pi zero 2w for MagicMirror.

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                  sdetweil @musson
                  last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:29 PM

                  @musson said in Running on Pi Zero 2 W?:

                  MagicMirror working on a lite version, I installed X11 and Chromium

                  well, thats not lite really!..

                  reports are its 5x faster than pi 0… same as pi 3
                  don’t remember how much memory on board…

                  make sure to increase the swap space…
                  and maybe run off a USB SSD (I boot most of mine from sd card, but run from ssd…

                  TGW (Total Gigabytes Written, measure of SSD memory capacity usage) on micro SD is pretty low

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                    musson @sdetweil
                    last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 5:43 PM

                    @sdetweil Its working with the desktop version!!!

                    Thanks for you help and comments.

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                      SmartReflectons @undeterred
                      last edited by Oct 31, 2021, 6:07 PM

                      @undeterred I should receive mine next week and look forward to building a mirror to check performance.

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