How to start

[pukacz]

Can anyone do me a favor and tell me step by step what has to be done in order get a Magic Mirror installed.
Let’s assume that i have a RPi 3B+, drive with no Rasbian, nothing.
Thanks.

[lavolp3]

@pukacz

1. Install the latest Raspbian WITH desktop environment (but without recommended software) on your SD card from here
2. Fire up your RasPi 3B+, set up wifi or lan, SSH, and everything you would set up for a running Raspbian system (if you donÄt know why, you will first have to make yourself acquainted with Raspbian itself.
3. Open the console (directly on the RasPi or via ssh) and follow installation procedure given on github

4. Enjoy!

Questions? Get back here :-)

[pukacz]

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[pukacz]

@lavolp3 Thank You!

[ganget]

There is a really nice installation guide from @KirAsh4 that will tell you every thing you need to know!

[pukacz]

@ganget
Very good guidance!

[Dodo88]

Hey together :)
I’m new and could install the software, but i can’t connect to the mirror per localhost for the admin tool.
Should i install apache2 and put the software to /var/www/html? Or can i run it without @ http://magicmirror?

Greets :)
Dodo

[lavolp3]

@Dodo88 No, you usually don’t need to do those things, the mirror should run by itself, but you need to use port 8080.

Take care of the following:

• Go into your config.js and look for the “address” parameter. It needs to be
  address: "0.0.0.0",
• visit your mirror from your browser via: http://localhost:8080
  If it doesn’t work, try visiting your mirror from another computer using: http://magicmirror:8080
  -Report if it works :-)

[Dodo88]

Hey :)

No it doesn’t work :(

I get this error by trying “http://192.168.178.33:8080”

"Die Website ist nicht erreichbar192.168.178.33 hat die Verbindung abgelehnt.
Versuchen Sie Folgendes:

Verbindung prüfen
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"

Should i post my config.js?

[sdetweil]

@Dodo88 said in How to start:

I’m new and could install the software, but i can’t connect to the mirror per localhost for the admin tool.

there is no ‘admin’ tool on MagicMirror

also, localhost mean the machine I’m on. so if you are using a windows machine to connect to the mirror, and use localhost, that mean on the windows machine…

in addition to what @lavolp3 said, you also need to clear out the ipWhitelist to look like this

ipWhitelist: []

which means ‘allow anyone to connect’

[lavolp3]

@Dodo88 This is confusing me now.
if you are

• EITHER on the machine on which magicmirror is running on, you type:
  http://localhost:8080

• OR on another machine, then you type:
  http://192.168.178.33:8080 or http://magicmirror:8080

And you need to do what @sdetweil said.

[sdetweil]

@lavolp3 said in How to start:

http://magicmirror

what is that? none of my machines know where ‘magicmirror’ is located… (I have 6 different instances running, all installed from the same script)

[lavolp3]

@sdetweil Guess you’re right. Thanks for highlighting. I may have changed the hostname manually at my main mirror

[sdetweil]

@lavolp3 but thank you… this got me thinking about my network… and sure enough the linux boxes added their names to the name server in the router… SO, I can use names instead of numbers…

My google wifi router does this better than my old TPLink router did…

[Dodo88]

hey, after i cleared the whitelist and reboot the rpi, it works :) Thx you all =)

The “Admin Tool” i ment was the module “MMM-Admin-Interface”

now booth works :)

Thanks a lot!! =)