The above post on Arcus … it’s being printed. Some of the pieces, when printed all at once, take 30+ hours.

In the mean time, this “rolled off of the assembly line” today:

Ding ding ding! That’s exactly why I got it. :)

Myah, found a few bugs in both the JS and CSS, which are now fixed. (Also found a conflict with same name CSS files across different modules.) Tomorrow I’ll start working on incorporating it with the default one, and see how to make it work so both can be displayed, or one of them while allowing for everything else to reflow gracefully. Adding some config features at the moment … which means I get to play a bit:

@loribeeinca said in Besides your MagicMirror, what are some Maker-projects you worked/working on?:

I built a HomeKit garage door opener with sensor …

'Hey Siri, open the garage door"

Siri, “Sorry HAL, that is not your car. I will not open the garage door.”

I probably won’t, at least not on my production mirror. I will on my test mirror, but that won’t happen this weekend … maybe next.

Thought of something like this since day one for me … but I shoved it to the back (where it fell off now) for a few reasons:
a) if this is in my bathroom, I don’t want to be standing there reading news, so I’d never use it there
b) if this is in the living room, I’m just walking by and glancing at it, again, not going to stop to read
c) as above, if I’m in the living room, I can just turn on my TV and watch the news, all day if I wanted to (who has time for that?!)
c) if I’m at the computer, I can always pull up the news site

In the end it ended up being a ‘nice idea, but won’t get used’, at least not in my house hold. It’s practicality for me.

That said, I understand everyone’s situation is different. Perhaps you do like to stand at your bathroom sink and read the news. Or perhaps your mirror is in a place where people do stop and read. No one is saying you can’t do that.

Just something to chew on …

@MagicCrumps1, perhaps you were using the wrong URL? There’s both a public and a private one. If you use the public URL, then you must also set your calendar to public view. But the private URL has the authentication key in it. No need to make the calendar public.

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?

• the rPi should not reboot when you first start the process - are you sure it’s actually rebooting, as opposed to you just seeing a gray screen flash, then black, before MM starts displaying the elements on screen? If the rPi reboots, you should see the full log of it starting up, with 4 raspberry icons at the top.
• Issuing the pm2 save command is best done through a remote connection. One way is to setup VNC on the rPi, and use something such as RealVNC (http://www.realvnc.com/) on Windows to remotely access the rPi. Another method is to use an SSH client like PuTTY (http://www.putty.org/) to log into the rPi. Once logged in, you can issue pm2 commands such as:

pm2 save - save the current process list so they automatically relaunch
pm2 stop mm - stop the Magic Mirror process and exit back to desktop
pm2 show mm - show the current status of the Magic Mirror process

PS: the default login on an rPi is:
username: pi
password: raspberry

I strongly recommend you change the password once you’re logged in by issuing the passwd command. Remember the new password you set.

Oh, yeah, typo … fixed.