@strawberry-3.141 said in Motion Detector:

@done propably everything is working for you guys and you can just see the screensaver, be sure to disable the screensaver

Negative. The screensaver has been disabled but the motiondetection module isn’t working. I gave the Facial Recognition module a try, but with the camera behind the glass, there isn’t enough light to train the system to recognize anyone.

At this point, I’m considering downgrading my chromium to something without the new security “features”.

@Mitchfarino StackExchange had a pretty good start.

Based upon the fact that the text value includes the HTML tag

@Thlb0 Those are some very comprehensive installation instructions. Well done.

For quick reference, the guide to using pm2 to automatically start the mirror process can be found here.

I remember having trouble getting the UI displayed on my Raspberry PI 2, but I can’t remember what I did specifically to get it up and running. Assuming you are using a keyboard & mouse connected directly to the Pi, try this:

• Start the Pi’s graphical interface (if it is not already running) by entering startx. You should eventually see a desktop, with a mouse cursor, menu, etc.
• Open a terminal window using the Menu in the upper left.
• In that terminal window, type cd ~/MagicMirror followed by npm start.

That should at least give you your interface. If you are using SSH to issue commands to your mirror remotely, try the following:

• Once you log into the Pi, navigate to the Magic Mirror directory like so: cd ~/MagicMirror
• Start the magic mirror and specify that you want it to display on the monitor attached to the Pi: DISPLAY=:0 npm start

It has been a while since I was playing around with my RPi 2. I think these will help.

@deadherring said in Rss for news feeds?:

and one from CNN, I configured on the pi itself, modifying the config file with a mouse and keyboard on the pi. The rest that I shared that weren’t working, modified the config file on my mac via text edit and then ftp’d the file up to the pi. I suspect that the mac might be saving the file in a way the pi does not like, or, as was suggested, inputting the " s in a way the pi does not like. At least, that’s my theory right now, I need to test when I get home.

I think you may be on to something here. Looking back at your complete list of feeds, this is what showed up from your copy & paste:

},

title: “Jerusalem Post”
url: “http://www.jpost.com/Rss/RssFeedsFrontPage.aspx”
},

Now I don’t know about your Mac, but from here that looks like some unicode characters where there should be UTF-8. The quotes around Jerusalem Post and the URL value are jacked up. I think you’re better off SSH into the Pi and using nano to edit the config.js file.

Done. Thanks.

Greetings!

My mirror project is destined to be a gift for a friend and as part of the configuration for it, my wife and her friends are writing a metric buttload (100+) of compliments. I’m going to have to load those compliments into the compliment module. Which is fine, but I am concerned that if I screw up even one of those compliments, the config.js file will not be a valid file and the MagicMirror interface will not display properly.

My solution, thanks in no small part to @strawberry-3-141 expert assistance, is to put the compliment arrays into a separate JSON file and load that file as an optional parameter fileName. I have the code ready and it has passed my alpha testing. The fileName parameter is optional and this is an extension of the existing core modules.

I’d like to add this feature to the core MagicMirror project. Is this a valuable feature? How do I go about contributing a minor change to the core?

@geeflaxx Don’t forget that you can specify more than one feed per instance of the module. So you could run one instance of the module that displays two feeds in middle_center and another instance of the module in bottom_center that shows the other two feeds.

Like so:

{
        module: 'newsfeed',
        position: 'middle_center', 
        config: {
            feeds: [
                {
                    title: "Feed  #1",
                    url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
                },
                {
                    title: "Feed #2",
                    url: "http://whatever.com/news/rss",
                },
            ]
        }
    },
{
        module: 'newsfeed',
        position: 'bottom_center',
        config: {
            feeds: [
                {
                    title: "Feed #3",
                    url: "http://www.kittennews.com/news/feed/",
                },
                {
                    title: "Feed #4",
                    url: "http://feeds.midgetpr0n.com/events/fresh/rss",
                },
            ]
        }
    }

@done Wait, does it work for you? Because it’s not working for me and this is the last thing I need before my mirror is done.

@PaulB You can flash the card, but once it’s in the Pi, you can’t SSH to it?

Are you receiving a login prompt at all, or is the connection failing? Have you tried SSH to the IP address of the Pi? ssh pi@192.168.0.3 (or whatever).

Does anyone remember if SSH is enabled on Raspbian by default? Or must you log in to the Pi itself and configure it?

At a guess, it looks like you put the header for your module in the module name specification. The module: [name] lines must match the name of the module. These names also correspond with folders in the ~/MagicMirror/modules path. The modules that are installed with the MagicMirror code (which I believe you are trying to use) will be in ~/MagicMirror/modules/default/[module name]

So try this instead:

{
		module: 'currentweather',
		position: 'top_right',
		config: {
			location: 'Bayreuth, Germany',
			locationID: '5128581', 
			appid: '158010f0c45e255e6439eb1885b3482b'
		}
	},
	{
		module: 'weatherforecast',
		position: 'top_right',
		header: 'Wettervorhersage',
		config: {
                     location: 'Bayreuth, Germany',
		     locationID: '5128581',  
                     appid: '158010f0c45e255e6439eb1885b3482b'
		}
	},

@PaulB A completely black screen usually means there is an error in the config.js file. Please post yours, (specifically the openweathermaps module entry) using the markdown features and we’ll take a look at it.

Did you ever change the password?
Were you able to successfully log in via SSH prior to your troubles?

If the password has been changed without your knowledge, that is a very bad sign. I suggest pulling the card, reformatting it, re-flashing it with Raspbian and starting from scratch.

@geeflaxx The display=:0 parameter is to send the output of the electron process to the monitor attached to your Raspberry Pi.

Rotating the display is done by editing the /boot/config.txt file and adding the line display_rotate=1

@Mitchfarino Oh yeah. The cheap-ish french cleat I bought from Home Depot claims to be rated for 100 lbs. If you mount it on a wall stud, you’ll have no problems whatsoever.

@Mitchfarino Heh. Well, that pic was just for holding the monitor in place. I used a french cleat to mount the mirror on the wall. One piece screws into the wall, the other screws into the edge of the box. You can make one fairly simply or just buy one from a hardware store.

@Mitchfarino I did something similar with my mirror. I ended up routing a channel in two pieces that spanned in the interior of the box. The monitor edges fit in the channel and a couple of corner brackets secured each piece to the interior of the box. If you weren’t too concerned with visible screws on the outside of your box, you could skip the corner brackets for driving screws into the monitor supports from the outside.

@DirkS Interesting. Following the instructions I found via the GitHub MagicMirror repository, the pm2 should be using /home/pi/mm.sh to start the magic mirror process. Editing this file and appending DEV should give you the web browser console with log.

@DirkS Aha. You probably haven’t set it up yet. No worries. You normally start your mirror by going into ~/MagicMirror and entering npm start, right? Just append the dev switch and you should see both the mirror UI and the browser console on your mirror: npm start dev

If you’re starting your mirror via SSH, prepend the command to send the output to the mirror’s display: DISPLAY=:0 npm start dev

Try this for a Google news url: https://news.google.com/news?cf=all&hl=en&pz=1&ned=us&output=rss