@Mykle1 Yes you are a F****** genius! Way to go Pops!

Thank you for all you have done! I am a newbie to MagicMirror (two months since I started playing with it and figuring it out) and I have installed several of your modules. I’m learning so much about node.js and javascript by tweaking their configurations and I’m impressed. I just found this note from you saying you were going to move on to new things as life has been changing so much for you.
I found MM and your modules because I was creating change in my life. Good LUCK and may you find interesting challenges and satisfaction whatever you end up doing.

And… Thank you!

p.s. I hope you do lurk from time to time and check in on us. You will be missed for sure.

can someone help me find the post about a guy who installed the pir-sensor and got his pi stuck with the HDMI screen output of his pi turned off? I did the same thing.
Unfortunately I am a total idiot (there I said what you all are thinking for you) for not turning on SSH and so…

I need to edit the pi config or something. I’m pretty sure I saw the instructions for it on the post that I’m looking for. Only I can’t find it.

Kelly
(who knows just enough to get in trouble)

@DiogoSekeira
me too! I’m always learning. I think this is a great first project.
Also check out the projects on raspberrypi.org . I learned a lot about python an other languages by doing projects on there.
This magic mirror project is really neat becuase it will also help you do javascript development. If you are a web developer this is an incredibly fun way to learn more about what is possible to do on a website.

Basically the magic mirror is a website running javascript with some special added stuff to allow us to control our computer directly so we can do things like turn on / off our monitor, get data from sensors connected directly to the computer running the website and all sorts of fun things.

As we say in the United States, welcome to the rabbit hole!

re the sd card,

nope… the sd card is your “hard drive” without it, there is nothing for the operating system to live on, it has to remain inside your pi at all times to run the pi. The operating system has to be on it too.

nice thing… you can have several sd cards which have different setups (different OS and/or diff software) and simply power down, switch the sd card, then power up to completely switch what you are doing with your pi. Once you get your pi setup like you want, copy the sd card by making an image or by literally copying it to another sd card, and you have insurance against an sd card failure or disaster which ruins your pi.

no problem at all using the pi4 power supply. the key is the 5v… the extra A will just allow you to power more things that are connected to your pi. If you connected a higher voltage it would burn out your pi.

In my mind I liken the voltage to water pressure in a pipe… it needs to be constant, if the pressure goes up in a pipe, you can blow the fittings. Or if it’s too low, the water won’t get to the end of the pipe so it can be used.

The amperage is like the water available that can maintain the pressure in the pipe. So if I put a lot of tubes connected to my pipe, I need a lot of water to keep all those tubes and my main pipe filled up.

Silly way to think of it, but that’s how my Da explained it to me while he was doing some plumbing.

@sdetweil I figured out that your suggestions of encoding the new line worked for me.
So, instead of using
\n
which textNode was treating literally, I tried encoding it and using this
\u000A

so when I tried the following it looked just like I put it into my morecompliments.json

"roses are red\nviolets are blue\nand I need a line\nto start here anew "

then I tried
"roses are red\u000Aviolets are blue\u000Aand I need a line\u000Ato start here anew "

and it displayed like I wanted it to like so…

roses are red
violets are blue
and I need a line
to start here anew

perhaps this will help others.

@kayakbabe

For anyone who finds this thread,

my solution was just to reinstall everything. Apparently I messed up some code somewhere else. My custom.css was fine and I used it on the fresh install.

@sdetweil said in [Electron] display, MM faded away:

disabled:true,

I’m confused… if the module is still in the MagicMirror file and folder structure? is it still executed even if the module is completely commented out of the MagicMirror config.js? or does disabled:true; do the same thing as commenting it out?

@Bugsounet I was using a small SD card 8MEG and my logs got too full and kept things from running correctly.

I had to pm2 flush to clear out the logs.
and then restart and it worked.

So I got a bigger sd card and have been working on the errors. I found changing the timer in the grove-gestures script got rid of a lot of timeout errors on it’s python script. I also made the news feed refresh less frequently and got less 401 errors from that. Now I can probably go back to the 8gb card.

@Mykle1 Yes you are a F****** genius! Way to go Pops!

@raymondjspigot I had a thought that might apply. MagicMover adds a div to all the modules. maybe having that surreounding div added to the backgroundslideshow… is breaking the css for the BackgroundSlideshow.

Are you wanting a background with stuff floating around on top of it?

I’m thinking you would need to alter the javascript code in the MagicMover to exclude the BackgroundSlideshow from having the div added around it. It would break any updates for MagicMover as you would have to add-in your custom code again if you pulled an update from the source.