I need help!!!!

[danwitz65]

@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!

[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

[danwitz65]

Well thanks a ton for the help im not gonna reinstall the whole thing that would be crazy ill just have to deal with it i guess…

[austin]

Did you run this command?

pm2 startup

This will give you a command to run to setup pm2 to start at boot.

[Mykle1]

@austin

@danwitz65 stated

Yeah idk i follow it step by step