This is great everyone. Thanks so much. I’m definitely going to use some of these ideas. Another idea that worked for me was just using the CNTL -/+ commands once I brought it up and that worked really well. Not sure if that works if I restart the image (which I’ll test) but it did work when I stopped/started NPM.

Again, thanks so much everyone.

Hello MM Community,

It’s been a while but I’m brushing off my MM project ideas. I’m doing this with Raspain images in VirtualBox. Was able to load it right up and start playing with some modules but quickly my screen was seeing sections blend with each other. I started looking around on how to change the font and they say to use the CSS. I wasn’t sure if my issues with the CSS settings or does VirtualBox show a “smaller” screen.

Anyway, anyone else have this kind of question/issue?

Thanks.

So instead of putting this behind a mirror, what if I just wanted the camera to display a video feed in the middle of the screen. Could this be done?

So I cloned the GoogleMaps one. Two questions.

The directory is off the root of the Module Directory, not in the default directory. Is that correct?

I’m about to run the NPM Install command. That’s not going to write over anything I have right? That just “adds” to what I already have, correct?

Worked like a charm. Thanks!!! I am really loving this MM. I’m not sure if mine will actually work with a real mirror (I have too much text on the screen…lol) but I’m having a great time figuring this out.

Yea…maybe I’m not saying it correctly…what I’m suggesting is something like the following. Can I load 2 “newsfeeds” in different locations on the page with 2 different RSS feeds?

module: 'newsfeed', 
 			position: 'bottom_bar', 
 			config: { 
 				feeds: [ 
 					{ 
 						title: "New York Times", 
 						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml" 
 					} 
 				], 
 				showSourceTitle: true, 
 				showPublishDate: true 
 			} 
module: 'newsfeed', 
 			position: 'SOMEOTHERBAR', 
 			config: { 
 				feeds: [ 
 					{ 
 						title: "MARC TRAIN INFO, 
 						url: "MARC TRAIN RSS FEED URL" 
 					} 
 				], 
 				showSourceTitle: true, 
 				showPublishDate: true 
 			}

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I don’t “think” you need a fan for the Pi being on all the time as it doesn’t put out a lot of heat, but I’ll defer to others in the forum about that as I’m kind of a NOOB here as well. In the example on the weather web page, they seem to have you spell out the entire country if you are in Europe.

So I was having an issue and I had to make sure the name in the config.js was right (mine was Baltimore, US). I can’t help with the other two items really. Maybe you can just have the monitor turn on when you have the light turn on (I don’t think you can quick boot the actual Pi).

I was going to ask something similar. I want to have multiple “news feeds” with one being the standard NYT one but also one from say ESPN as well as the RSS feed for my local train MARC. Are there any good “Mirror Designs” for this? Would I just create a new module section, have this placed say in the bottom_left and list the website RSS feed?

Sure…I’m Chris and I live in Baltimore, MD (if you haven’t been to Baltimore, please visit. It’s a great city…nothing like “The Wire”). I’m always interested in new technologies and projects. I haven’t had a good one in a while but this Magic Mirror project resonated with me and I’m really enjoying learning this and Node.JS. I’m sure I’ll be asking a lot of NOOB questions but that is my learning process. A few years ago I started asking NOOB questions on Experts Exchange and I was able to create a really powerful monitoring system using Microsoft Virtual Earth and NetIQ using .NET and VScript. So I know I can learn…I just need motivation and for me to ask the right questions.