I need help!!!!

tbbear

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?

danwitz65

@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!

tbbear

@danwitz65 ok, lets fix it step by step:

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.

danwitz65

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

@danwitz65 ok, lets fix it step by step:

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!

danwitz65

Ok sweet got it! Thank you!!

danwitz65

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…

danwitz65

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.

Mykle1

@danwitz65

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

danwitz65

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

Mykle1

@danwitz65 said in I need help!!!!:

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

I think the default locationID: "5128581", is for New York. You would have to change that to locationID: "5243553", in your config entry. The readMe file for weather tells you to get it at http://openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt. I looked it up for you, based on Adams, WI.

Otherwise, you could put Adams,WI in location (no space) and locationID: "5243553",

danwitz65

Oh my god thank you so much!

Whil i got you hear can you help me through getting magic mirror to boot up automatically. Ive tryed and made the shell script i can run all the commands to get it to run then i try pm2 save and the sudo reboot.

The mirror loading screen shows up then goes blank and boots back up to raspbian desktop… its driving me nuts

Mykle1

@danwitz65

Perhaps you’re not saving the PM2 state correctly. I would only tell you exactly what is written here.

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

danwitz65

Yeah idk i follow it step by step but when it loads up it just shows four raspberrys then magic mirror2 “booting up” then the raspbian home highway picture desktop… idk what im doing wrong

Mykle1

@danwitz65

Are you waiting when that happens? There is a delay between the time you see the desktop and when PM2 launches the mirror. How long are you waiting?

danwitz65

Idk it never has launched after a reboot ive had to do it manually in terminal everything’s me so far

Also when you type

chmod +x mm.sh

From that guide is terminal supposed to do something?

Mykle1

@danwitz65

It will make the shell script is executable. I don’t recall if there is any output to confirm. It may simply go back to your directory

danwitz65

Yeah it doesnt confirm back with anything just opens a line for another command.

Also just tryed rebooting and waiting its been 7 mins now and magic mirror hasnt popped up

Mykle1

@danwitz65

Well, it shouldn’t take THAT long. If you run pm2 start mm in the terminal, does it launch the mirror?

danwitz65

Yes it does

Just did it as well to be sure

Mykle1

@danwitz65

All I can do is suggest you go through the entire process again. Create the script. Make sure it’s not inside your MagicMirror folder, etc . . and follow the instructions precisely. If there is something else going on there then perhaps a fresh install is in order, but that is completely up to you