Hello all, so happy to be back here after my mirror sat in a closet for a few years because the wife just didn’t “get it” and claimed we had no place to put it. Turns out we now have a place ot put it but more importantly, we have a mission for it to help us with.

Our teenage girls are really having a tough go at the world these days so we’ve decided to put the magic Mirror to work feeding them daily affirmations and positive thinking strategies. The mirror will be hung right at the bottom of our stairs to the front door where they will surely be at least two or three times a day. (Admittedly this “spot” didn’t exist prior to this spring when I decided to add an electrical outlet to the wall by the door so I could charge my unicycle there instead of having toe carry it up or down stairs.)

So that’s the back story. My Mirror is configured with the following modules:
Face-Reco
MMM-weatherforecast
MMM-TweetsByTimelineOrList
and MMM-Dad-Jokes (of course)

Face-Reco was configured and working when I put it all away but I’m questioning whether my camera is functioning or not as it doesn’t seem to be working. My own photos are “close enough” to the same as the dataset so ‘recognition’ shouldn’t be the issue. I don’t think.

All the steps I’ve found to test the camera are not working and pointing me to reinstalling Ubuntu. Do you all have any suggestions for A) Checking the Camera for functionality or B) Reinstalling Ubuntu without losing all the configs on the Mirror side of things?

TIA for helping me finally get this mirror hung!