3. I need help!!!!
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I need help!!!!

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    Every time i go to rotate the screen and reboot itll show magi mirror loading then stop and go to the raspbian desktop and i cant get back into magic mirror with out deleting and reinstalling i enter the comand

    Rotate display vertically

    display_rotate=1

    In the config.txt file

    Reboot

    And then does as said above can someone help me

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    hi, so first of all does the screen rotate as u said? And than how did u made MM to start automaticly? Do u use pm or any other stuff? If u dont change your rotation does ur MM work ok?

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    @tbbear said in I need help!!!!:

    hi, so first of all does the screen rotate as u said? And than how did u made MM to start automaticly? Do u use pm or any other stuff? If u dont change your rotation does ur MM work ok?

    No i never even got the screen to rotate at all. Im not sure to be honest i followed a pretty well made tutorial online. Ibtryed using pm2 or whatever bit i couldnt make the mm.sh a file it could execute i guess ehat im wondering is how to get rolling on this.

    What i have so far:

    The pi assembled

    Rasbian desktop installed and functiong

    Downloaded magic mirror a few times and deleted the others and so on

    It comes on in landscape mode i can see the basic set up with the time greeting and news.

    What i wouldnlike to have is:

    The pi boot diectly to MM
    MM to be in portait mode

    And although i know its in tutorials and walkthroughs id like to:

    Change the time to 12 hr
    Add a weather app
    Maybe some custom greeting?
    Make sure i can set the pi to not turn off wifi
    Make sure theres no screen savers or whatever

    All the good stuff to have it function as it should you know.

    If you could help me as to where things go whether it be in terminal, a folder, a file. Anything such as that.

    I just built a retro pi.

    I overclocked it
    Transfered all the roms over network
    Installed kodi
    Put the add ons in kodi
    And customized the displays in roms to run them all real smooth so im no newby to this stuff, also no expert either tho ill admit. Just need a different approach or point me in the right direction.

    Thank you!

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    @danwitz65 ok, lets fix it step by step:

    1. Rotate the screen (works for all normal displays, not for pi special and touchscreens)

    Open a terminal and login to your pi

    sudo nano /boot/config.txt
    move all the way down to the end of the file
    add the line: display_rotate=3
    Press ctrl + o to save and ctrl + x to exit the file

    Now do a reboot and you should have a screen tilted by the number of your desire:

    0 = 0 degrees (the default value)
    1 = 90 degrees
    2 = 180 degrees
    3 = 270 degrees

    That’s it! Quick and easy.

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    @tbbear said in I need help!!!!:

    @danwitz65 ok, lets fix it step by step:

    1. Rotate the screen (works for all normal displays, not for pi special and touchscreens)

    Open a terminal and login to your pi

    sudo nano /boot/config.txt
    move all the way down to the end of the file
    add the line: display_rotate=3
    Press ctrl + o to save and ctrl + x to exit the file

    Now do a reboot and you should have a screen tilted by the number of your desire:

    0 = 0 degrees (the default value)
    1 = 90 degrees
    2 = 180 degrees
    3 = 270 degrees

    That’s it! Quick and easy.

    Oh hell thats gotta be my problem there i didnt realize save was ctrl+o i was kust doing x i think. Ill report back once i try it thanks a ton!

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    Ok sweet got it! Thank you!!

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    Oh my god worse problems now…

    Id tryed editing my wifi auto turn off thing and followed a thing on line that said to delete the contents and type in what they had and now i dont have any internet at all and dont have my original file… do you have the original networks interfaces file…

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    Never mind fixed it.

    Anyways where im at now is trying to get it to auto start when the the powers on ive got pm2 ive tryed making the mm.sh file but that isnt working can i get a hand from the beginning of that process getting it to auto start.

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    @danwitz65

    https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror

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    I dont understand this command and section

    Whats a shell script

    cd ~
    nano mm.sh

    Where do you put it how do you get it to work

    And then id like to set my weather in adams wisconsin how do i do that i got my key or whatever and put it in so it shows up on the mirror but it says new york and i tryed just typing in adams and madison wi and it wouldnt switch over

    Again thank you for all your help

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