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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    • C Offline
      Coltjb45
      last edited by

      I just got my first pi, downloaded magic mirror and don’t know how to make it work now. Any help would be great?

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        Peter
        last edited by

        Hi,
        Just like you I am new to this, started about a week ago and learned a lot.
        On my computerscreen MM is working with a lot of modules that I added (and sometimes removed).
        In the beginning it is very hard to find answers because you have soo many questions.
        But there are some very good tutorials that can help.
        And you have to read a lot (using the search function).
        But isn’t that part of the fun?
        Try this:

        https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4558/help-for-my-fisrt-magicmirror

        Peter

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          17saiiqb
          last edited by

          Also new person but I think I can help. Could you give a bit more info? How far are you in the installation process? If you have everything installed you can start your MagicMirror by opening the terminal and typing:

          cd ~/MagicMirror
          npm start
          

          and your mirror should appear.

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          • Mykle1M Offline
            Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer
            last edited by

            Pay particular attention to the 2nd post in the link that Peter gave you. Some dude wrote up a bunch of excellent tutorials for beginners. ;-)

            Peace

            Create a working config
            How to add modules

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              Coltjb45
              last edited by

              Thanks a lot Peter! That helped me out a ton! I have it up and running now but the weather isn’t displayed and the screen didn’t rotate. Help with troubleshooting that would be great! I would also like to know how to customize it to my personal preference. Thanks in advance!

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                Peter
                last edited by

                When I started I also had a lot of things not working the way I wanted.
                I just tried to solve one problem at a time.
                And after solving it I saved the config file or the custom. css on a usb stick.
                In between a lot of searching and reading in this forum; there are a lot of answers and ideas to find here!
                So, tell us what problem you want to solve first (and do some searching …)
                Peter (waiting for the Samsung monitor to arrive …)

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                • Mykle1M Offline
                  Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Coltjb45
                  last edited by

                  @Coltjb45

                  Start with weather not showing. You need an API key as described in the readme file for the weather module

                  Create a working config
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                    Coltjb45 @Mykle1
                    last edited by

                    @Mykle1 I went and grabbed the api key and entered it in and still can’t get it to work, I must be doing something wrong?

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                    • Mykle1M Offline
                      Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Coltjb45
                      last edited by

                      @Coltjb45

                      Does your entry look like this?

                      {	
                      	module: "currentweather",
                      	position: "top_right",
                      	header: "New York",
                      	config: {
                      		location: "",
                      		locationID: "5128581",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
                      		appid: "YOUR API KEY HERE", 
                      		}
                      	},
                      	{
                      	module: "weatherforecast",
                      	position: "top_right",
                      	header: "New York City",
                      	config: {
                      		location: "",
                      		locationID: "5128581",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
                      		appid: "YOUR API KEY HERE",
                      		}
                      	},
                      

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