But then still, after starting you would instantly see the message, right?

Margin issue should be fixed now.

Indeed, when hidden it is pushing down other modules. Will fix this in an upcoming release. (This is actually a core issue … When it’s hidden. It should not push other modules down.)

I’m not a fan of an alert since these are very obstructive. In some cases you won’t have the time to immediately update. If we use notifications, these would stay in the way.

Since most mirrors aren’t restarted very often, a message at start up would not make much sense.

@Jopyth exactly. Wich wouldn’t make much sense.

The new default module updatenotification will display a message whenever a new version of the MagicMirror application is available. It will show the number of commits behind on the current branch and the name of the active branch.

The new module is included in the new sample config. Make sure you add it to your own config if you want to add it:

{
    module: "updatenotification",
    position: "top_center"
}

This module uses new default translations. Any pull requests with translation in other languages are welcome! (English and Dutch already included.)

It would be nice if you can extend the module with hide/show options:

 {
    keyword: "simpleMode",   // keyword 
    description: "Say 'Simple Mode' to switch to the simple UI.",
    file: "simpleMode.pmdl", // trained model file name
    message: false,   // Unused in this command. Can be omitted.
    show: "simple foo bar",  // Show these modules.
    hide: "advanced" // Hide these modules.
}

When activating this command, it shows all modules with de classes defined in the show variable. And it hides all modules defined in the hide variable.

When implementing this, make sure you use the Visibility Locking mechanism that will be introduced in version 2.1.0: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/241/2-1-0-api-revising-the-show-hide-mechanism/9

@Jopyth: The problem is that there is no way to find out which module requested the hide method. Therefor I can’t use that identifier by default. This must be provided by the module itself.

It works perfectly fine on a Mac. To be honest: this was one of the goals during the development (because of this project: http://michaelteeuw.nl/post/150349424992/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-has-the-biggest-of).

To install it, make sure you have the latest version of node installed. You can download the installer here: https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.8.0/node-v6.8.0.pkg

Next, open your terminal, and clone the MagicMirror² repository:

git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git

Then, go to the MagicMirror folder and run the installer.

cd MagicMirror
npm install

Make a copy of the sample config to your custom config:

cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js

Run MagicMirror to see if it works:

npm start

If everything works fine, you can modify your config to match your preferences …
If you want to run it full screen on a mac, you might want to enable the kiosk mode in the config. (See documentation: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#configuration)

Enjoy!