Posts made by chef

Are you giving your raspberry pi an ip address of “0.0.0.0”?

Why?

The address line should be the IP address of your pi.

Having it listen on any interface hasn’t really worked well.

Then the whitelist is an array of ip address. If you leave it empy (ex. []) then all the devices on your network will be able to access your mirror.

This is what mine looks like:

var config = {
	address: "192.168.2.48", 
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: [],

This especially makes a difference when using the “Restfull-ish” API. It is necessary to give the address line an ip address :)

Unfortunately, the Netflix APi is on lockdown. I know this from my work with Emby Server. Netflix requests get made all the time over there and the answer is usually the same, “can’t do it…”.

That being said, I’m sure there would be ways of hacking together something, but I think it would be breaking a lot of terms and conditions.

I was looking on github at a couple of “chrome cast” like casting npms for raspberry pi, just the other day.

There are a couple of good ones. The thing is, some of them need a specific application added to your phone/device to cast to raspberry pi. There was one in particular that caught my eye, and it looks promissing.

It is this one: https://github.com/vbaicu/mMusicCast

Thing is, it says it’ll cast Youtube (which is awesome), or maybe even your device screen (which could be useful…), but not Netflix specifically.

You could somehow put chrome into an application window on your pi.

You can do this to chrome by opening Chrome with these parameters:

“PATH_TO_CHROME” --app=“YOUR_URL”

This is pretty hacky… and It’s not completely window-less.

One other thing to keep in mind when attempting this.
The MM application itself might not handle any HD streaming, so this would mean that you would have to…probabaly… have the OMXPlayer installed, and placed on top of your MM interface in order to get a stable stream. There are probably better developers on the forum here than I, who understand the ‘ins and outs’ of making that happen in a Debian style environment…

Probably didn’t help much here.

@maxbachmann that’s a really great idea. I noticed that is how some of the Security Camera MM2 modules work.

I had thought about using an intervalTimer which showed a list of images in succession, but I think that would be worse than a GIF for the Raspi. :zipper-mouth_face:

Finally got everything back to normal.

Yep! Must have been a corrupted segment of my sd card. Had to start from scratch, and even now hold shift while loading and reinstalling Raspbian is cause errors.

Just out of curiousity, if I don’t upgrade the MMM, how long does the ‘new version available’ popup on the top of the MMM show? Is it forever or does it eventually disappear?

Interesting how my account ‘pi’ has ‘permission denied’ while trying to work in the MagicMirror folders.

Perhaps my setup is corrupt…

Hey guys!

the latest update for magicmirror went well.

One issue though,
I haven’t really ever had an easy time with the calendar module.
I had applied a fix found somewhere on the forums here, which did some editing to the configuration js file for the calendar, which seemed to fix it.

I don’t remember what it was, or where I found it sorry.

I did run into an issue this morning when updating the mirror app.

The calendar seems to sit in a ‘loading…’ state.

I’m about to read through the module again and see what I can find, but I thought I’d ask here and see if anyone might have some facts or information regarding similar calendar issues, which might help me better locate the possible problem.

Cool,

Chef

I also used eye candy! it’s great! but unfortunately, yeah, it runs up the memory, and in my case crashes the display… I have since commented out the plugin in my config, but that plugin is top shelf man! love it!!

Wanted to bump this, sorry.