Hi all,
what are your top3 modules you can’t live without?
Beside the very useful standard calendar and weather forecast module i love this three ones:
Please share your most important modules and strip it down to only 3.
@Barbarian said in What kind of glass do you use for your MagicMirrors?:
So I am almost done with the development of my MagicMirror
haha.
Sorry dude, thats just a dream. You will never be done with it™. And thats the fun thing about this.
Some crazy guys here are developing such nice things, that you always want to “upgrade”, or even make it better.
Maybe it would be helpful to write done the country you are living in, to give you more local specific tips.
added the pkill commands but it does not work. It does not kill the apps.
From time to time, the feed disappears. Have not yet found when and why.
Sometimes it runs 2 days without problems, the other day it only lasts for some hours.
Weird.
Only thing what helps is currently a reboot of the whole pi.
Since it was to complicated to log in on a device to give the reboot command, i set up a
Amazon Dash Button and placed it right next to the mirror.
So my wife can reboot the mirror with just a simple order- click. ;)
Hopefully the OMX version will become more stable sooner or later.
Thanks for the explanation.
It was already working, but i could not see the stream remotely within a VNC session (the ffmpeg stream was visible).
It works perfect now. No delay, and way sharper.
But…
If i restart the mirror because of changes in the config, i get a blank black screen.
The omxplayer does not stop completely. One instance is still running and is not killable.
Additionally it seems that something kills the DNS of the pi. (Could be something else, but i guess it starts by adding your module).
Now the stupid thing. if i restart the service with “dhclient”, the name resolution works again, but i need to restart the mirror, that the scripts are loading.
If i restart the mirror, dns is not working anymore. (etc/resolve.conf is correct)
It would really helpful if the omxplayer would shutdown completely if i
pm2 stop mirror.sh
or
pm2 restart mirror.sh
to not get a blank screen.
Above all this, i love the module and appreciate your work. Thanks a lot.
WAF is really huge for this great addon ;)
Do i understand correctly?
Local Player means that it only can playback a source, directly installed at the pi?
No source from a wlan attached ip cam?
Tried the wip branch for my IP cam, since the ffmeg player uses 100% and has 6 seconds delay in my case.
With the omx player i do not get a picture anymore. (At least i do not have a complete black screen anymore ;) )
So it is definetly related to either pm2 or the MM application.
If i stop the mirror with “pm2 stop mirror.sh” the normal pi desktop is shown and the screen does not go offline.
The status light of the monitor is always “online”, even if there is no picture shown anymore.
I can always revive the screen (for some minutes) with the above bash script.
I really can’t get it, whats causing this.
i checked the crontab -e file (also as sudo) there is just a
@reboot script for the mirror to autostart after a reboot
and two scripts for switching the monitor off at 10pm and switch on at 6.45am. This is working.
Any suggestions?
It started after testing with a pir sensor. This sensor is meanwhile disconnected physically.
Hi Dirk,
is it the standard calender module?
where does you source come from? Where do you get this information from?
I am also interested in a module like this and could look into it aswell.
Ist das das Standard Kalender Modul? Wo ist deine Quelle?
Wäre auch an dem Modul interessiert und könnte es mir dann genauer anschauen
i had the same and i could fix it, in my special case, by simply reloading the webpage periodically i want to show.
(i use a wepage that crawls the status of my automatic lawn mower and shows me informations like status and battery)
If you handle the webpage yourself, thats an easy option.
If you want to show a external source, it’s not working.
I recognized that my mirror is turning off after some minutes since today.
I am playing arround with a PIR sensor, but i guess this is not the root cause.
Nothing is running currently in the background.
I can revive the monitor by running the following script
tvservice --preferred && sudo chvt 6 && sudo chvt 7
vcgencmd display_power 1
again for some minutes.
The only thing i did is a apt-get upgrade and i think there was only a nodejs update.
Could it be that this causes the mirror shutting of?
Can someone explain how to get the older package again?
Thanks. I already fixed it at my mirror with
(config was already in 24hours mode)
changeing this line
// time = time.toLocaleString('en-US', { hour: 'numeric',minute:'numeric', hour12: true });
time = time.toLocaleString('de-DE', { hour: 'numeric',minute:'numeric', hour24: true });
which did the job
And for the sunset and sunrise i just changed to
H:mm
Ugly and hardcoded but worked for me. with my low programming skills.
How is the correct way to update the repository via git? I’m kind of new to this stuff.