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    • RE: A Question About Power Cables

      @Mykle1 No, it does not. You essentially pull the plug to turn it off. What I did at home was to plug it into a WeMo home automation outlet. I then used my phone to set up a schedule to turn the mirror off & on. And it ties into the Amazon Echo, so I can tell Alexa to turn the mirror off and on if I need it outside of the schedule.

      The other downside is that the plug is only like 4 feet long. You may have to use an extension cord or (as I did) solder in an extension from a spare computer cord.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: [WANTED] new ownership of modules.

      After all that you’ve given to the community (and the amount of code I’ve shamelessly stolen from your modules) the least I can do is help out. Please let me handle MMM-SelfieShot and MMM-WeatherBackground for you.

      posted in Development
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    • RE: Help please. Module doesn't show up

      @blacter - Okay, a couple things.

      First, it’s best to use the markdown features of the board when posting code, rather than screenshots.

      Second, you should obfuscate or hide your API keys, lest someone “borrow” them for their own use.

      Third, the line obtained from https://iexcloud.io/console/tokens appears to be on its own line without a comment prefix (the // characters) so it is being evaluated by the interpreter. And because it’s a comment and not a setting, it’s probably barfing on that line.

      Fourth, the code you quoted is missing a closing } symbol. You have one opened for the config: { line and another open for the { module: 'MMM-SingleStock', portion… but you only have one closing }.

      I hope that gets you on your way.

      Edited to add: Dammit, @Mykle1 beat me to it.

      posted in Troubleshooting
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    • RE: How do I go about making a decent sized mirror cheap?

      @chaseb1357 The expensive parts are going to be the monitor and the mirror itself. If you’re willing to put in the time, there are a couple ways to save money.

      • Acrylic mirrors are cheaper than glass mirrors and only are only slightly lesser quality. www.tapplastics.com is a decent source for one-way acrylic.
      • One-way film is even cheaper than one-way acrylic. If you’re willing to go slow and try multiple times, you can put one-way film on a sheet of plain glass.
      • The monitor is the other large expense. If you’re willing to stay with a landscape orientation, you can repurpose a used LCD television instead of a computer monitor. A cheap 32" TV is cheaper than a 32" monitor.
      • Honestly, I’d skip the touchscreen aspect. I know you don’t want to hear it, but a touchscreen mirror is just asking for fingerprints & smudges.
      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: US and World Population Clock (like census.gov website)

      You may not even need a new module. I discovered by poking around a bit, the population clock is available as an iFrame. Using the iFrame module, you can probably get this to work.
      iframe src="https://www.census.gov/popclock/embed.php?component=counter"

      posted in Requests
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    • RE: Changing compliments?

      @AAPS See my post in this thread from November 4th. If you compare the code I included to the default entry for the compliments module, it should get you started. The default code is only this:

      {
          module: 'compliments',
          position: 'bottom_center'
      },
      

      Basically, everything I included in the config section on Nov 4th is new code that will modify how the module behaves.

      posted in Development
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    • RE: Please help

      @moris The basic installation of MagicMirror includes a sample config.js file. It’s located at ~/MagicMirror/config/config.sample.js

      If you copy or rename that file to config.js that should help get you started. cp ~/MagicMirror/config/config.sample/js ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js Once you have it copied, you can restart your mirror and it should use that simple config.js to run the mirror software.

      Installing other modules is pretty simple. Navigate to the modules directory: cd ~/MagicMirror/modules and then clone the module repository git clone [module url]. Follow the directions at the GitHub repository for that module in case there is anything special about installing that module.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Dell D620 Laptop PC

      If you’re not terribly wedded to Windows, I would recommend Ubuntu. For two significant reasons:

      1. Boot times will be faster.
      2. The various threads here in the forum include paths to software installations to help troubleshoot. These paths will be much closer to your environment in Ubuntu than they will be using Windows.
      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Viewing Mirror from Browser

      To expand upon @Mykle1’s post: You need to specify the IP address that the web server will use. If you don’t have the address: portion filled out like above, the framework won’t quite know where it should be hosting the web server.

      If “0.0.0.0” doesn’t work, try “127.0.0.1”. If that doesn’t work, try your Pi’s IP address on your network.

      posted in Bug Hunt
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    • RE: Halloween mirror ghouls anyone?

      @frog You seem to be missing the style='position... part.

      So:

      config: {
            text: “<video src=‘vendor/skelloop.mp4’ autoplay loop style='position:absolute; top:100%;left:50%; height:200%’></video>”
            }
      
      posted in General Discussion
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