Did you install the latest version of node.js?

@Mykle1 said in How hot does your mirror run?:

@Advokaten said in How hot does your mirror run?:

would any heatsink do on a rpi? I saw one guy who brought the extreme and planted one that was bigger than the Pi itself, lol. He got it down to about 20 Celsius.

I don’t see why not. If it cools the Pi and it doesn’t harm it in any way then it’s good, I guess. Do you have a picture of that extreme heatsink you mentioned? I’m curious to see it.

I saw this one not too long ago!

@morozgrafix Is this even a possibility? I was looking at the Slack documentation and API info, and I am not sure if it is even possible right now? I would love to hear your thoughts.

@Mykle1 said in How hot does your mirror run?:

@hartattack

I wanted to add a fan from the very beginning although all searches say that the Pi can run without problems up to 80°C or more. That “seemed” hot to me. My Pi was running at 60°C, which is well under the maximum that I discovered. So, I took it upon myself to add a 12v fan (I have spare parts lying around) and connected it to a 5V pin and a GRD pin on the GPIO header. I’ve been running the mirror more than a month without a hitch and my CPU temp is nearly 20°C cooler. Fans are cheap. If you can salvage one, even better. The result is pretty dramatic. Have a look.

I started with a fan and 3 heatsinks from the beginning. Mine runs around 45C and gets close to 50C when doing anything intensive.

@cowboysdude I would be happy with that! Still going up on the mirror as soon as I get home!

@strawberry-3.141 said in Slack integration:

@hartattack I think @morozgrafix is pretty familiar with slack isn’t he :D

After looking at his profile maybe he will have some ideas!

Anyone else use the messaging app Slack? We use it for work and there is one channel in particular that I need to see all the time. It would be awesome to see messages from that channel appear on the Magic Mirror. I have no idea where to even start with this one.

@wered From what I read, the Pi’s can handle temps up like 80c. Mine is behind my TV and it is pretty modern, so it doesnt get very hot. The fan helps a bit.

Nice module! Will be installing this today for sure! Is there a way to pick which teams you want to see? If not, no biggy

@Advokaten My Pi is in a pretty closed off area, I have 3 small aluminum heatsinks attached plus a small fan. The pi itself never gets above 50c

I would get the basic MM software up and running, then configure it to what you want to see, then maybe create your own module.

Having some difficulties installing this one. I went to the Wunderlist page in the install guide, but it is asking for a Callback URL and App URL. What do I put here?

Great build! Looks awesome!

Is the sensor pin configured properly? Meaning in the config file for the module, the sensor pin defaults to 22. Is that the same one your sensor is connected to?

@cowboysdude said in Introduce yourself!:

@hartattack Glad you’re here and love your site!

Thanks you sir! Much appreciated!

Hello everyone!

My name is Hart and I am 26 from California! I work in software support and am teaching myself some of the development and code aspects of things. I also run a small blog called The Gentlemen’s Society.

I started in the Home Automation world a few years ago when I wanted to make things easier for my wife and have been obsessed since then. I have been wanting a Raspberry Pi, but never pulled the trigger, until I found the MM project! It finally gave me the reason to buy one and now I want more. Got my first “mirror” up and running, which I am using as a dashboard on my TV.

Can’t wait to meet all of you and look forward to the awesome things to come! This is a great community!

@bocapie said in Config File stopped working after update:

I got it to load at the bottom line module was with a ’ instead of a "

When I was first setting up my mirror, I had a bunch of typos that ruined it. Glad you figured it out!

@Mykle1 said in My First “Mirror”:

@hartattack said in My First “Mirror”:

The next step will be to figure out how to make the Pi do the following on a schedule:

Wake up at 7:10
Load Magic Mirror at 7:15
Sleep at 8:00
Repeat every day.

The goal is to have my TV turn on at 7:15 with Magic Mirror already booted up, regardless of if I was in Kodi/Retropie last. I have NO clue how to do this, so we will see!

This is probably what you’re looking for but the mirror would have to be running for the scheduling to work

https://github.com/ianperrin/MMM-ModuleScheduler

Close, but what I am looking for is to be able to be on Kodi, then automatically have the Pi switch over to Pixel, Load the MM, and have it all display at a certain time. Then turn itself off after a certain time. I think it is going to require a Cron Job and some kind of script (way too advanced for me).

@Mykle1 said in My First “Mirror”:

@hartattack

And you got the triple boot working now too? Excellent!

Shocker right? I just decided to give it one more try and not touch the retropie side of things until I get my controller for it.

@Mykle1 said in My First “Mirror”:

@hartattack

Oh, that’s down right classy! Well done! :thumbsup_tone1:

Thank you sir! It is definitely a fun project and I am enjoying every minute of it!