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    • RE: dead SD-card every aprox. 6 months

      I use the cheapest SSD I could get for my Pi at that time. It’s running non-stop for 2 years without any issues. You can get 120GB SSD’s for less than 20€. A SATA-USB adapter costs around 2€ from China. Maybe that’s an option for you.
      SD cards are not designed to be permanently written to. They wear out too fast.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Magic mirror install on Ubuntu 16.04

      @Preve Hi there!
      The Other day I installed MM on the latest Linux Mint and it worked without any issues. All I did before the npm installwas to run curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash - which was poested by @Mykle1 poested in this post. There were no errors during the installation. Give it a try and report back if that worked for you. 🙂

      posted in Troubleshooting
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    • RE: Atomic Pi

      Ok, ust for fun I installed MM an the Atomic Pi and the installation went through without a problem. MM runs pretty smooth, although I haven’t installed any demanding modules.

      I also installed windows 10 on an external SSD, connected via the USB 3.0 port. It works and runs okay but I hoped it would feel a bit faster. Not sure if the USB drive is to blame or the CPU. I’d like to test a slimmed down LTSB version but I couldn’t get my hands on an iso 🙁

      I have no experiences with any offline speech recognition modules but I’ll get into it in July. I won’t really have the time to play around with it at the moment.

      Any other modules I should try?

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Atomic Pi

      It’s powered with 5V via the GPIO pins. I soldered a barrel jack to a pin header to power the Atomic Pi. This is one of the flaws and quirks… They do sell different breakout boards but they weren’t available when I ordered my Pi.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Atomic Pi

      I didn’t have too much time playing with it software wise. I was doing some soldering to extend the number of USB ports and to power the thing. However, I have successfully installed Linux Mint and it is running smooth. Ubuntu should run well, too.

      Maybe I’ll try installing MM tomorrow and report back but I can’t promise to find the time for it. Also, I am not really a programmer (at all!) so I’ll stay away from the GPIO pins for now (until I can copy what others have done 😜 ).

      My summary so far: it does have some flaws and quirks but for the price it is amazing.

      posted in Hardware
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      MadScientist
    • Atomic Pi

      Hi all,

      I am surprised nobody is talking about the Atomic Pi yet.
      It’s a x86 SBC that cost around the same as a Raspberry Pi but instead comes with 16GB eMMC storage, 2GB of RAM and an Intel Atom CPU, and USB3. You can find it here.

      I ordered mine last week when it was only $35 (now ~$39, they are popular, prices will probably go up a bit more) and I received it yesterday in Germany. Including shipping and import fees I paid something around 43€.

      They are in and out of stock all the time but right now they’re in stock. Don’t wait too long to place an order…

      Before I try MM on it I’ll probably play around a bit using different OS, especially Windows 10.

      I thought this could be of interest for some users. I know there’re always plenty of people looking for a more performant SBC and this could be it.

      posted in Hardware
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      MadScientist
    • RE: Orange PI

      You have to execute npm startin the MagicMirror directory, not in the home directory of your user pi. E.g. do cd MagicMirror (or /home/pi/MagicMirroror whatever your MM directory is) and then run npm start.

      posted in Hardware
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      MadScientist
    • RE: Luận văn quản trị kinh doanh hiệu quả tiêu dùng vốn buôn bán (Phần 1)

      @mytamhuyet What? Why would it power down without being told to do so. My mirror runs for months without a restart.

      posted in Troubleshooting
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    • RE: Cronjob

      Glad it worked! 😃

      posted in Troubleshooting
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    • RE: Cronjob

      This is my crontab:

      # daemon's notion of time and timezones.
      #
      # Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
      # email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
      #
      # For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
      # at 5 a.m every week with:
      # 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
      #
      # For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
      #
      # m h  dom mon dow   command
      0 6 * * * pm2 reload mm
      
      
      
      

      Are you running crontab -ewith sudo? Because you have to run it as the user that runs MM (= most likely without sudo).

      Edit: @Zwirbel: For me it works using a cronjob. See what I wrote above and if you have questions regarding crontab, just ask again.

      posted in Troubleshooting
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