@sdetweil Who are you asking to repost? The community at large?
Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
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RE: I accidentally rejected your post about upgrade not working
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RE: Examples of physical sensor data
@cyberdie This unit. I pulled picture from Sparkfun although I did not buy it from Sparkfun. They are all over the web.

I bought mine from Argent Data Systems
It has wind speed wind direction and a tipping bucket style rain gage.I also bought a this hat from BC Robotics

Poke around on BC Robotics and they have same device for wind speed, direction, etc. Make notice of price on Argent and BC Robotics.
Hat is nice because it has room for other sensors to solder to board.
BC Robotics also have a n EXCELLENT tutorial for how to set it up and program everything to spit the data out in a readable format.
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apt upgrade question
what is the difference in
dist-upgradeandfull-upgradewhen it comes to updating a Pi.
I can ask some obscure question about a Pi, totally unrelated to updating a Pi and I will get multiple hits on Google.
For example I recently did a Google search on how to format the date and time.
The question is irrelevant.
But every answer will start with:- First update your Pi with the following commands.
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
OR
sudo apt dist-upgrade
- First update your Pi with the following commands.
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Examples of physical sensor data
I’m just looking for any example modules out in MM land that pull in and present data from weather sensors inside a MM module. Just want to look at them for now.
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RE: MMM-jast
@BKeyport A little side note but with the proliferation of bigger screens people are using to display MM’s, that block of font sizes in main.css is worth lifting the whole block and adjusting all your fonts in one place rather than tweaking each modules font individually.
I found that by accident but once screen size crosses a certain size threshold you don’t need to scale up the font anymore. Just put more modules on application.
For example, Say your main living area you have a 60 inch screen and you set an appropriate font size for that, if you step up to a72 inch screen you don’t need to ratchet up the font size. My accidental discovery which was just playing around, a 4 inch tall font on your 60 inch TV doesn’t need to step up to a 6 inch font on a 72 inch. -
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@Kastore It depends on the device but the color of the wires is not random. Typically red = + but could either be 3.3V or 5V. Black will be - or grd. I can’t ever remember all of the pins but if you do an image search on GPIO Pinout you will get a ton of pictures of how all the pins are laid out.
Yellow can be a bit more arbitrary but if you don’t have the device literature you can do a search on the devices name and/or number
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RE: MMM-DHT-Sensor stopped working
@Jonae How many wires on sensor? 3 or 4? There are some DHT sensors with 4, some with 3.
If it is 4, and/or you know it is I2C ,try running ```sudo i2cdetect -y 1’‘’ .
Should spit you out an address 38.If not I have a 3 wire sensor I can hook up and run through setup. My 3 wire sensor and DHT supposed to be about twins.
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RE: amber alert module
@dave462 You need a Raspberry PI, micro SD card to install Pi OS, then you install MM software. You need a monitor. WiFi Mouse and Keyboard so you can plug fob into Pi, interact with the Magic Mirror software.
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RE: amber alert module
@BKeyport Just to reiterate what @BKeyport said, the Mirror part of Magic Mirror doesn’t do justice to the multitude of projects and designs people come up with.
You want to put your calendar/schedule where you can see it and be reminded of things you need to do, Magic Mirror.
Want a visual display of the weather where you live, Magic Mirror.
Some of the things folks come up with are really exceptional.
BUT… there is more to it than slapping a bunch of blocks (modules) together and done.
Some of these MM’s border on digital art they are so well done.
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RE: MM as Desktop background (for MacOS / Linux)
@MMRIZE I think he sees icons in front of the weather module, doesn’t realize MM is the desktop