@alexyak, oh, take a picture every day … at the end of the year, put them together in a video and watch the transformation. :)
Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
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RE: Stream video as a mirror
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RE: MagicMirror Stuck/Freeze
Couple of things:
- Are you using a proper power supply for the pi? You want something that can provide at least 2Amps.
- Is the rPi very hot? Do you have it in a sealed box with little air flow?
- Have you checked the file system itself on the card? One method is to issue a forced check upon a reboot with
'sudo shutdown -F -r now'
- After the reboot, look the results in'/var/log/fsck/'
. If for some reason that fails when you type it in, you can try adding'fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=yes'
to/boot/cmdline.txt
and reboot the pi. That will force a file system check upon start up and you can watch to see if there are errors. - Failing that, you can always move all of your modules onto a different computer (or in the cloud somewhere), rebuild the pi from a fresh image, and try it again, see what happens.
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RE: Weekly Calendar
And so the mayhem commences … Next up is parsing the data returned and populating the specific boxes. Don’t no one remind me how much I detest Javascript, mkay?
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RE: MMM-SwissTransport
@flooo, you can look at the repository’s commit history (https://github.com/Bangee44/MMM-swisstransport/commits/master), and then checkout a specific revision by using the SHA1:
git checkout <sha1>
Note that you may need to use the full sha1 value, not the truncated one.For example, the last commit on May 3rd is
146a6ce
. If you click on that, it expands that commit and you can see the full sha1 value as146a6cec2aaa5007255cb157ed415ba180639354
in the upper right. So your checkout command then becomes:git checkout 146a6cec2aaa5007255cb157ed415ba180639354
This is of course done from INSIDE the module’s folder!
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RE: Whitescreen after Reboot
@MichMich, oooooh. I was about to start a new topic and demand access to those
'frowned'
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RE: Weekly Calendar
Right, we have two different requests here. One is to display a simple, empty calendar, and another to display an actual Google Calendar with contents.
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RE: MMM-SwissTransport
Oh, I just noticed that his post where he said he change it was also done on May 3rd … so perhaps that original version no longer exists, which sort of defeats the purpose of using git …
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RE: Getting started tutorial
Taking this topic back to the storage question above, I did a fresh install on another rPi-3 and captured some info. One a stock Raspbian Jessie, running on an 8G card, with all apps updated, nothing removed, once you have MM up and running, you’re looking at the following for storage:
Now, since you’re likely to only use this for MM and nothing else, there’s no sense in leaving all of the other apps on it that are pre-installed. So, I removed some of the big ones:
wolfram-engine scratch nu-scratch sonic-pi idle3 smartsim penguinspuzzle java-common minecraft-pi python-minecraftpi python3-minecraftpi libreoffice*
And after running
autoremove
as well, which cleared even more space removing other unneeded apps, you’re down to this:That’s 1.3G worth of storage that I just cleared up. So unless you need a larger SD card for other stuff, an 8G works just fine. Potentially even a 4G. You’ll still have plenty of room left after you clean up the installation.
Another option is to start with Raspbian Jessie-lite on a 4G card, but then you have to install the X server, desktop environment, and a login manager yourself. Assuming you get it all done correctly, you’ll end up with a very light weight installation of the OS, taking up only 53% of storage (remember, 4G card), with MM running lean and clean on top of that. I did try that as well but ran into issues with electron.js and for the time involved, knowing I wasn’t going to run it on there, it wasn’t worth continuing. I will leave that as an exercise to the brave.
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RE: MagicMirror is voted number 1 in the MagPi Top 50!
I’m expecting my very own issue in my mailbox, together with some parts to make one … c’mon MagPi!
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RE: News Ticker
Awesome, glad things are working out and you’re able to configure it the way you want to. As for the mirror … you can always get a larger mirror. :)