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

I haven’t coded in python since my first attempt at a magic mirror. In the past couple of months I’ve built 2, a working one for my Dad and now another for me. First I decided that I needed to rewrite the MMM-Flick module because it was crashing my mirror. So, I dove into that. I abandoned the Flick because it really isn’t very reliable and am replacing that with buttons that turn the mirror display on and off and a small adafruit gesture sensor for changing screens. Python was a must. I made a mess but a working mess at that.

Last week, I decided I liked all of Erik Flowers weather icons and that the default weather just didn’t use enough of them. Thus I needed to change the default weather module so it uses the openweathermap weather.id instead of the weather.icon. I’ve been working intermittently for a week and being super frustrated. Today I got the brilliant idea (DUH!) to use a syntax checker on it. Python syntax check… BOOM! DUH! I was putting python in a javascript. DUH! It doesn’t work. DUH!

Just had to share that. 'Cause I laughed so hard my soda squirted through my nose. So now I have a mess of code to clean up and a wet puddle on my desk.

I’m getting a cleaning rag after I hug myself in sympathy pains and pat myself on the back for figuring it out. If I could only figure out how to get 7 evenings of my life back now…

@ankonaskiff17 I think that is very cool. Vilros has a Magic Mirror kit too. This one looks more complete. Waveshare has some nice displays. I think the more people getting into and using the MagicMirror software the longer it will continue. This is a good thing for all of us. They are linking to our MagicMirror repository and giving good instructions for setting it up and modules too.

Drawing people here will help us all and ensure MM goes into the future.

@ankonaskiff17 I have to agree that DAKBOARD is super lame. I read about MM a long time ago and found DAKBOARD becuase of my MM research. I actually looked at it for about a hour and thought it was lame too. MagicMirror is so customizable and I am a tinkerer. I like to change up things. I like to fix things and not wait on someone else to update when some api changes. So, I decided to tackle MagicMirror. I’ve learned a lot and this is a great community.