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Thanks. Love your modules.

“Best” is a very subjective term. In my experience, just about any monitor will do as the mirror layer is going to interfere with what normally separates one monitor from another.

To me, the absolute non-negotiable feature is at least one HDMI port and it must face down towards the table in a normal configuration. Other than that… Resolution doesn’t matter so much because I’m just displaying text. Refresh rates don’t matter. Vividness of colors likewise doesn’t matter.

I would look for one with good black levels, as any backlight will show through a little bit when the monitor is on. Other than that… whichever is cheapest for the size I want.

There’s also lots of other ways to get remote access to the Pi so you can edit with normal editors and save there.

SAMBA (easy, IMO), or other tools to create a share… Just search and ye shall find.

First, I would play with your monitor controls to see about getting more light to transmit through your acrylic. Up the gamma first, the contrast second and then adjust the brightness. The brightness will also affect the black areas of the screen, so don’t just crank it all the way up.

If that doesn’t work for you, then yeah you may wish to investigate a new monitor.

@blacter could make the results very different!! thanks for the feedback

@blacter said in Sorry. One more...:

/home/pi/package.json

have to be IN the MagicMirror folder before u can do anything with npm commands
/home/pi/package.json

if u meant to use pm2, then it would have been ok anywhere

pm2 restart MagicMirror

Thanks. Appreciate the help.

Thanks. I’ll take a look.

@bhepler said in Help please. Module doesn't show up:

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

:thumbsup:

@sdetweil said in Need help with sdetweil script:

so, as I have watched people struggle to reconstruct their mirrors after an update, I wanted to make it easier

Hesitated a little bit to submit this reply, but I want to make use of this thread by complimenting Sam on his script.
Also for persons that do not really struggle setting up MagicMirror, it is a very useful script. A real time-saver.
Today I have set-up 2 MagicMirrors from scratch (went from using SD cards to using USB sticks) and it worked like a charm. Had them running again in no time.
So, thanks Sam, for a job well done !