@hayman I believe the default compliments are hard coded (there are only ten of them). You’ll have to write your own compliments in Dutch or any other language. You can either include them in your module configuration or use a separate compliments JSON file.

@Tippon Yeah, that’s pretty much it. The mirror attempts to connect to my command & control server at DNS entry that I control. When it connects, it establishes a reverse SSH connection. I can ride that reverse SSH connection down into the mirror. The C&C server is cloud based, so I just turn it off whenever I don’t need to connect to the mirrors.

Because it’s the mirror making the outgoing connection, firewalls let it pass by. All the mirror needs is a connection to the internet.

I have a pretty long tutorial on how to set it up. I’m a bit verbose.

The install script worked okay on Armbian 23.8.1 (Bookworm). PM2 install worked great. Screensaver disable didn’t work the first time but after a manual configuration to auto-boot into the user and then a couple of boots it seems to be doing well.

@blake_northrup Yikes. It looks like something went wrong with your Node installation. Thankfully, you’re not the first person to encounter this. There’s already a thread on this forum discussing it.

@mykle1 said in MMM-SORT:

My daughter works in Emergency as a PA and I am a retired New York City Police Officer.

No kidding. Interesting.

@scott5532 said in the same #$?@!! thread

I am a Hazardous Area Response Team Paramedic in the north of England and our mirror is going on the wall in the crew room as a information screen.

Now that sounds like a worthy purpose. Let’s get you fixed up.

Honestly, I would ditch either the analog clock or the digital one. You’re being redundant in your information. Additionally, I would add a header to the SORT module so that it’s obvious what information is being conveyed in that section of the display.

@sdetweil Now this sounds interesting. Do you have tutorial or URL where I can learn how to set this up?

@alainchiasson said in MM2 my first try:

The initial script failed on dependancies and depracated packages. Just could not get it to work.

The installation script hasn’t been updated to handle some of the changes in the latest version of Raspbian. I would ignore it and follow the steps for a manual installation.

There are several weather modules. A quick browse through the Modules - Showcase - Utility section of this forum will give you several to choose from.

I would suggest looking at Dark Skies and NOAA3 first.

@BlackTalon I don’t think so, no. I’m running this on either my development PC, my work desktop or a microPC. Win10 or Ubuntu 16, respectively.

It looks like the electron browser thingy doesn’t support some of the commands used by the module. Possibly. We may need a workaround. Still investigating.

Looking at your screenshot, pm2 was already running the mirror software when you gave it the start command. That’s probably why you received the ELIFCYCLE error. If you want to stop pm2 from monitoring/restarting the magic mirror, enter pm2 stop 0. Then you can run npm start in the MagicMirror folder and monitor the output.

When you say “I can’t get to the desktop” is that because the magic mirror interface is taking up the screen, or you are at the command line and the desktop interface isn’t running. I’m guessing that your problem is that you’re at the command line and you’re not seeing the desktop (based upon your mention of running startx. That leads me to conclude that your pi is not booting into the desktop when you start it up. That needs to change.

Somewhere in your raspi-config menu will be the option to boot to desktop or boot to CLI (command line interface). You need to change that so that you boot to desktop. When you’re looking at the mirror interface, Ctrl+q will close the interface and get you back to the desktop.

Just be warned: if pm2 is monitoring your mirror, it will notice that something has closed the magic mirror interface and it will restart it again. Ctrl+Alt+t will give you a terminal window and you can enter pm2 stop 0 to stop that behavior.

@steed said in i need help getting the dailybibleverse module set up.:

i pasted the MMM-DailyBibleVerse folder here ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/MMM-DailyBibleVerse’

This path is incorrect. Modules go in the /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules folder. That path is assumed when you add the module name to the config.js entry. So when you type module: 'MMM-DailyBibleVerse', it’s going to look in that path for a folder with that name.

@BlackTalon Interesting. Thanks for figuring out the issue.

Question: I could load this on the Raspberry Pi 3 at the office and then take a video of the end result. Would that be interesting to the community? Or should we just call this a greater-than-raspberry module?

@kellogg76 - With the latest update of Raspbian, the installation script has not kept up with the changes. I would try a manual install instead.

You’ve already deleted the folder, so run:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
cd MagicMirror
npm install
npm start

Let us know if you hit any errors.

@cr4z33 - I’m glad you got it figured out. Don’t forget to mark the topic as solved!

@tidus5 The OpenGL drivers are experimental. I think we’re pushing the Pi - even the RPi3 - to its absolute limit with this type of rendering. A stable power supply isn’t the issue. It’s an issue of raw computing power.

@Mykle1 - They were included in previous Raspbian distributions. Ever since about December or so, the installation script hasn’t been working.

@artworks79 Sure, no problem.
For starters, you probably copied the config.js.sample file to config.js to get you started. That’s great, as the config.js file is what the Magic Mirror software reads in order to arrange and configure the various modules. For future installations, I recommend making a local copy of the config.js file and then dropping that in your new mirrors.

In the config.js file, you’ll see an entry for the compliments module that tells the system which module to load (compliments), where to place it and what configuration values to pass into the module (config: {...}). This part of the config.js file modifies how the Magic Mirror software treats the compliments module.

Inside that config section, you can modify the behavior of the module itself. You can change the update interval or change the compliments themselves. Here’s the one pulled from my config.js.

{
        module: 'compliments',
        position: 'bottom_center',
        config: {
                updateInterval: 30000,
                compliments: {
                        morning: [
                        "Good morning, sunshine!"
                                        ],
                        afternoon: [
                        "It's a pretty day outside. Go play in it!"
                                        ],
                        evening: [
                                "Wasn't the sunset beautiful?",
                                "Wasn't the day just spectacular?"
                                ]
                        }
                }
        },

Inside the config: {...} section there is a variable called compliments. The value of this variable must be an array, as specified by the morning: structure. Please note that arrays require square brackets. Each compliment must be enclosed in double quotes " and each compliment is separated by a comma. You can have as many compliments as you like in each array. In the compliments:{...} variable you are allowed a morning array, an afternoon array and an evening array. No other array names will have any effect.

@Eunanibus - Well, since you’re asking… these are the things I remember from the original code that I would love to see implemented.

• Specify locations to be linked by an arc.
• Specify colors used for the pins
• Specify colors used for the arcs
• An updateInterval to control when to refresh the globe w/ the build animation
• A true/false switch to display the default pins.
• Alternately, an array for unlabeled pins that will replace the defaults if you provide it.

Thanks!

@sdetweil - I ran into the same problem on Firefox. I conclude that it’s not a browser issue. It seems to be a file issue. I can upload JPG but not PNG. That’s easy enough to work around.

@AndrewS097 - As another option, there are a couple people on here who have created frameless mirrors. It gives a very modern look which is right in line with the technology.