@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.