Re: Magic mirror with 2 displays

System HP desktop with DP and HDMI outputs
OP: Ubuntu 22

I want to run MagicMirror in a system with 2 monitors, showing MagicMirror on monitor 2
I also want to turn off the second monitor when we are not near.
I can turn the second monitor off and on using xrandr
I can start MagicMirror on monitor two using the electronPosition option in the config file

The problem is that when I turn off the second monitor MagicMirror “moves” to the main monitor which I don’t want.

I read about using the display variable to direct the output to the second monitor but I have no idea how to setup the display:0 and display:1 variables to point to the two monitors and I don’t even know if this will keep MM from moving to monitor 1 when I turn off monitor 2

Has anyone done this and have a solution or any hints?

Thank you

Carlos

@evroom

pi-mirr+ 25230 22066 53 11:17 ? 00:00:03 mplayer -noborder -monitoraspect 0 -vf rotate=-1 -geometry 450:100 -xy 352 288 rtsp://admin:password@192.168.0.85:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=1

Sorry for the delay in replying, I don’t get e-mail notices when someone replies to my posts.

@hrmax23
I don’t know why but the MPlayer header show up in the latest MMM-MPlayer update, at least in my setup, it does not show up in the previous version. I upgraded and then downgraded.

@hrmax23
Sorry I just got notified of your reply.

I set the taskbar height to 0 and autohide. I don’t remember the exact steps I took

@plainbroke

No, I have the window in the middle of the screen, something like x: 450, y: 100

@sdetweil

I don’t know if this is the cause but I am using vcgencmd to turn the display off and on and to do that I had to disable vc4-kms-v3d

@sdetweil

Yes, when the MPlayer RTSP stream is running

@sdetweil

The desktop taskbar. On the raspberry the bar at the top of the screen.

@sdetweil
Yes the problem is the same. I initially had MM running on a rpi3, when I installed MMM-MPlayer, I noticed the taskbar showing every time there was a feed showing.
I started from scratch on an rpi4 and saw no problem but when I transferred the card to the rpi3 the issue came up again.

Since I wanted to keep using the rpi3 for the MagicMirror I solved the problem by making the taskbar 0 pixels in height.

Just a comment

I am using MagicMirror on a pi using bullseye 32bit.

When using a rpi4 everything works fine. When I transfer the sd card to a rpi3 every time the MPlayer shows a live feed the desktop taskbar shows up, when MPlayer is switching between feeds the taskbar is not visible.

This is probably due to my specific choice of settings but just thought it might help someone.

@sdetweil

There is a css file in MM, but I still can’t figure out how to make it “work”

.MMM-Openhab {
	width: 400px;
	height: 700px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
}

.MMM-Openhab .header {
  color: red;               /* Header color. Default is red. */
}

.MMM-Openhab .ifr {
 	width: 400px;
	height: 680px;
}

I changed the red to different colors both in hex and by their name and restarted MM but the header is still red.

Is there something, apart from restarting MM, that needs to be done to have the module accept the new color?