@Jopyth Yes, I stripped out that module for this one, kept the start function and removed the rest since It was a bit over my head at the moment :)

Took me a lot longer than I’m willing to admit just to get the code to compare dates!
Actually thought about the hour/minute countdown as well, but decided to keep it real basic.
I figured you don’t really put that many hours in front of the mirror that it would be that important to see so much detail of the countdown. (And if you look the update interval is set to 5 hours just to keep it in the ballpark)

@Mykle1 Okey, I changed up some variables and I’m not able to test them myself, when you get home, could do a git pull on the doomsday module and test it out for me?

@Mykle1 humm, okey, probably because the function to round it up thinks it’s more than 0.5 days left and thus rounds it up to 1 instead of down to zero.

Have to adjust the code a bit

https://www.proshop.se/Bildskaerm/Neovo-17-Bildskaerm-C-17P-Svart-3-ms-/2496928?utm_source=prisjakt&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=pricesite

Buying bigger things outside the EU you will have to pay toll and taxes on it. Not worth it.

Or Try finding a used monitor with hdmi on www.blocket.se
The small ones usually are dirt cheap!

The LED monitors often has a stronger light output/contrast are therefor better suited for a magicmirror, but a normal tft/ccfl screen works also. It’s more up to the lighttransmissin of your mirror in the end.

You are in the wrong folder if you want to start the mirror with sudo npm start

@fischi87 to me it looks like the dependecies isn’t installed at all

@fischi87 did you read and follow the instructions correctly for MMM-swipe?

I e did you run npm install in the MMM-swipe folder?

@ottobot thats clever :D

@johnnyboy wouldn’t the visualization of how modules are place be equally as good with the sample config file that is included in the MM package?

It shows you what the format is, but yes a thorough explanation of why it looks like it does would probably help new users to avoid many configuration mistakes. But then again, showing others many different config files wouldn’t really help if they don’t understand why others config files work and theirs don’t.

I think there will be more issues copying and pasting other configurations if there is a lot of 3rd party modules in there. For an example all 3rd party modules that require other dependencies and need the user to do a npm install in the module folder. They might just to a git pull like the other modules and then they are confused why it didn’t work because they missed the read me file for the module.

I think it’s better if there was a educative way to explain the basics of why the config files look like they do, maybe someone can do a video explaining why. I think it was @strawberry-3-141 that perfectly explained the use of commas in lines with the shopping list reference.

Stuff like that would be great for the non-experienced users out there that wants to build their own mirrors!

@EttVenter and if you run curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh
Without the bash cd command?

@cowboysdude The showing your mirror category should only be for each mirror made, not general sharing threads.
I think it will get confusing and cluttered if there is ANY other threads than project threads in there.

Because I like to build and modify stuff.

@EttVenter I would suggest a total reformatting of the SD card, get the Jessie lite image and put that on your sd card.

Then follow these instructions : https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Jessie-Lite-Installation-Guide

The mirror looks good!

But yes, the light transmission is either very low (like 1% low) and/or the screen has a weak light source, is it LED or CCFL backlight on your screen? Do you know the specified light transmission of the mirror you have?
The reflection is good though, which is what you really want in a mirror ^_^

@axl1988 I don’t have permission to view the images from the google account, just the bottom one

@Sultan91 when it comes to glass and mirrors the phrase “you get what you pay for” really is spot on, there aren’t that many manufacturers of “spyglass” so the prices are mostly the same, world wide.

The cheapest option however is foil, but it’s a pita to get it looking nice. Second cheapest is the acrylic mirrors.

And size matters, bigger custom size mirrors = more money, there are smaller pieces made in pre determined sizes to cut costs.

@Sultan91 I paid 140$ for a 47x23 real glass mirror at a local glass company.

@Sultan91 the thickness.

When it comes to plastic mirrors you want the thicker panels, because if it’s to flimsy and have no or little support behind it you will get distortions in the reflection.

Well, configs and all, I don’t really see the point in sharing config files, It’s basically just a list of modules.

When you get in to it you will see that the real visual changes to the mirror is done with the custom css file, and as you said, there is already a section for that :)

@johnnyboy to install mpg123 on your raspberry : sudo apt-get install mpg123