@Natacha3 I second @Mykle1 's suggestion to make a backup of your SD card, especially before you make any significant change. This way if you mess up the change, you can revert to your backup and try again. Furthermore, take another backup immediately after you are successful in implementing the new change. This way if you SD card becomes corrupt and unbootable (say due to a power outage, pulling the power cable without a proper shutdown, etc), you’ll have a fully up-to-date backup that you can restore in 30 minutes or so. This will save you many MANY tears.
Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
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RE: Motion Detector
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RE: MMM-MyScoreboard
@cyberphox do all of the logos appear of you change your config to just show you NFL? Or if you configure it for just one of the teams that isn’t showing? I’m beginning to think the issue might be video memory.
I remember when I configured my Pi I increased the amount of video memory allocated specifically because this needed to be run in the GUI desktop environment. Not sure how it behaves under the default settings.
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RE: Does my display need to touch the back of my Magic Mirror?
@ovg I have no idea. I’m guessing at some point you’ll start to see some reflection, and I’m guessing the brightness will suffer, but a few millimeters shouldn’t make any kind of significant difference.
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RE: MMM-My Calendar Two Columns
@ctag My guide explains how to use the dev tools to inspect the various HTML elements to see what CSS is applied. HTML is arranged in a nested format, with some within others. These outer elements are what I refer to as parent elements. Since our attempt to change the with of the title element of the calendar entry directly failed, it means that something else is restricting the width of the title. This usually means some CSS is being applied to a parent HTML element of the title element that is influencing the size of the title element. Have a read through the article I shared, and then try to familiarize yourself with the dev tools inspector. You’ll be using that to try and figure out what is restricting the size of the title.
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RE: MMM-MyCalendar
@zzaidi148 Can you confirm that you got your Gmail ICS link by following the instructions here?
https://www.smsclientreminders.com/how_to_share_your_calendar_with_other_applications#googleIf so, send me a private message and I’ll troubleshoot your config.
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RE: MMM-MyScoreboard
@cyberphox OH I see the problem! The file name is
WAS.svg
notWas.svg
(Notice the difference in case). That should be an easy fix to simply force uppercase. Will publish a fix tonight. -
RE: Send on/off to the screen via IR
You have a couple of options here:
You can install libCEC which you’ll be able to use to send standard CEC protocol commands over the HDMI connection. Support varies from one vendor to another, but the ability to turn on, turn off, and set the input are pretty universal.
If you have a USB IR blaster, you can use LIRC to send IR commands to your TV’s IR port.
Of the two I would try libCEC first, as it seems to be more reliable. I’m using both – libCEC to handle TV power, and LIRC to cancel the Input overlay OSD that my TV puts on screen for a few seconds after power up. The CEC commands work all the time, however the LIRC blasts seem to work whenever it feels like it. Maybe it’s my IR blaster… not sure… but libCEC has been rock solid. Also, you won;t need any extra gear – you’re likely already connecting your Pi to your TV using HDMI.
A word of warning… Once you have libCEC installed, it takes a bit of a learning curve. This site is helpful once you get the hang of how to compose a CEC command, but if all you care about are TV on and off, these should work as-is:
TV On:
echo "on 0" | cec-client -s -d 1
TV Off:
echo "standby 0" | cec-client -s -d 1
I hope this helps!
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RE: MMM-DarkSkyForecast - Yet ANOTHER weather module
@shbatm You can do this in your
custom.css
file. First make sure bothshowPrecipitation
andshowWind
are set totrue
in your config, andshowForecastTableColumnHeaderIcons
is tofalse
.Next, add the following to your
custom.css
file:.MMM-DarkSkyForecast .wrapper.tiled .forecast-container .forecast-item .precipitation-container, .MMM-DarkSkyForecast .wrapper.tiled .forecast-container .forecast-item .wind-container, .MMM-DarkSkyForecast .wrapper.table .forecast-container .forecast-item .precipitation-container, .MMM-DarkSkyForecast .wrapper.table .forecast-container .forecast-item .wind-container { display: none; }
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RE: MMM-MyScoreboard
Hey folks. I know I haven’t paid much attention to this module over the last little bit, but with the move to the UK my kids are all into Soccer now (or Football, as everyone continues to correct me!). They’ve demanded I add Arsenal and FC Barcelona to my mirror.
So I’ve released a new update and it’s a big one. This builds on the work that was done on the
add_more_soccer
branch. But instead of supporting a handlful of soccer leagues, my module now supports ALL of the soccer leagues that ESPN’s API feed provides.To anyone currently using the
add_more_soccer
branch note that your configs won’t work as-is any more. Given that I’ve added support for more than 100 leagues and competitions, I’ve needed to come up with a more meaningful naming scheme. Please see the README for the new list of leagues supported.Also, if a
git pull
does not get you the latest source code, then you might need to remove the module altogether and reinstall it from scratch. A while back I messed up a couple of commits and it might have left some installs in an unlinked state. Reinstalling from source gets you past that moment in time, and everything should work as normal after that.Enjoy!
- Jeff
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RE: Running Magic mirror in 4K on an Asus Tinkerboard
How does the Tinkerboard handle 4K at the GUI level? Is it similar to how a MacOS handles retina? e.g.: Logical resolution is 1920 x 1200, but the physical resolution is 3480 x 2400 and OS takes care of mapping imagery to physical pixels (i.e.: 200x200 pixel image sized to 100x100 will take up 100x100 logical pixels, but will render to 200x200 physical pixels)
Or does the OS simply use the 4K physical pixel dimensions as-is? meaning that everything looks really small?