@sdetweil I tried several options, e.g. disabling/enabling underscan and tried default resolution, but it didn’t help to recover the menu bar. It is still not there :(

I have read all the threads on other forums about a similar issue with the missing menu bar, but it didn’t help to recover it. I’m running Raspbian on Buster with Smart Mirror 2.17.1, after the OS update/ upgrade I can see only a trash can when switching to a desktop and no menu bar. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Re: Kalliope assistant + MM

@sispheor ,

Thank you for the great tutorials, however I still can’t get the MMM-Kalliope to show up on the mirror. Script installation for the Kalliope failed for my Raspberry Pi4, but I managed to install Kalliope (0.7.1) with combination of #2 and #3 methods, but I still can’t make MMM-Kalliope module visible on the mirror.

I have added MMM-Kalliope configuration part to my config.js file.

I have added this to my ~/kalliope_starter_en/brain.yml file:

– name: “mm-say”
signals: []
neurons:
– magic_mirror:
mm_url: “http://127.0.0.1:8080/kalliope”
notification: “KALLIOPE”
payload: “{{ kalliope_memory[‘kalliope_last_tts_message’] }}”

– name: “mm-alert”
signals:
– order: “send an alert to magic mirror”
neurons:
– magic_mirror:
mm_url: “http://127.0.0.1:8080/kalliope”
notification: “SHOW_ALERT”
payload:
title: “my alert title”
message: “the message”
timer: 5000

And I have added this to the hooks in my ~/kalliope_starter_en/settings.yml file:

on_start_speaking: “mm-say”

However still no success, the MMM-Kalliope does not appear on the mirror.

@bugsounet Understood. Shall I create the same thread in the forum.bugsounet.fr?

@sdetweil yes, sure (just checked). I did this installation before, but using Raspberry Pi3, I had no issues.
Now it is for Raspberry Pi4, and I got this black screen. Where I can get the startup messages?

Hi, just installed the MMM-Tools module, but can’t figure it out why the screen becomes black as soon as I put its configuration in the config.js file. Did anybody experience this before? @bugsounet your support is highly appreciated.

Perhaps you deal with these two great modules and could get them to work together without any impacts. I could not. After I installed and set up the MMM-NewPIR, I installed and set up the MMM-GoogleTasks. After that, the graphical output of the count-down bar disappeared. Did anybody experienced the same behaviour?

@sdetweil Another question, how I can restart the mirror from the command line? Didn’t find that information.

@sdetweil Thank you. I was looking for a solution to provide SSID and password upfront, so no interactions are needed and Raspi can connect to your WiFi right out from the start.

@sdetweil Thank you for sharing your scripts. Will try today.
Do you know if there a way to provide the Raspi OS with the WiFi SSID and password without logging into Raspi desktop environment? Like in a text file or so?