Posts made by mmcghee

mmcghee

Hi Guys,

Getting somewhere with my new MM. Solved some of my issues with the help of you all so thanks very much…However the next issue i have is when loading a youtube vide onto the iFrame-Ping module it doesn’t autoplay. i checked the electron.js file and everything seems in order there. The youtube video i am trying to link is https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Auq9mYxFEE

Cheers
Michael

mmcghee

Sorry in the MM-Remote-Control git page you have the option of doing either an auto installation or a manual installation. I dont know if the issue i have is something to do with PM2?

mmcghee

i also tried the automatic install and manual install too

mmcghee

Hi,

i used sudo git clone to install

Michael

mmcghee

Hi Guys,

i have installed the module and updated my config.js file and i am able to connect to the remote.

However i am getting the below message when i run npm run start on MagicMirror

[2020-08-06 21:40:58.178] [ERROR] MODULE LIST ERROR: modules.json updating fail
:EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control/modules.json'
[2020-08-06 21:40:58.179] [ERROR] ERROR_UPDATING
[2020-08-06 21:40:59.566] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-Remote-Control
[2020-08-06 21:40:59.645] [ERROR] error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

Also whenever i make any changes with the remote i get the below error also:

[2020-08-06 21:48:57.332] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[2020-08-06 21:48:57.333] [ERROR] [Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control/settings.json'] {
errno: -13,
code: 'EACCES',
syscall: 'open',
path: '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control/settings.json'
}
[2020-08-06 21:48:57.341] [ERROR] MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[2020-08-06 21:48:57.342] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

I’m quite new to all this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards
Michael

mmcghee

@Serge Sounds cool, definatly going to put power outlets inside the frame instead. I like the idea of having the LEDs and also the buttons too. What did you use for these?

Thanks
Michael

mmcghee

Thanks for the suggestion guys, never though about putting a power bar in the frame.

Cheers
Michael

mmcghee

Hi Everybody,

I am in the process of going to create my very first magic mirror. I plan on locating it in our bathroom and i will be using an hp 23" monitor (E233 Elite display). I plan on powering my pi using the usb sockets in the monitor thus hopefully only having one cable comes out of the mirror itself. I am going to add a speaker at the base to allow music to be played through it to avoid having to put separate speaker systems in my bathroom and maybe add a microphone to allow voice activation. One feature i was interested in and not too sure if this would work would be to integrate an NFC reader into the frame. The idea being is that either myself or the Mrs. taps our phone against the reader and it will play our own playlists. The thing is though she uses apple music and i use amazon music so i’m going to have to find a way to integrate this into it.

That’s the idea anyway, i’ll try to keep you all updated with its progress and of course any comments/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Michael

mmcghee

thanks sam,

Think i might move away from magicmirror os seems a bit to complicated compared to running it on raspbian for a newbie like me.

Cheers
Michael

mmcghee

Hi Sam,

not sure, since i am using the magicmirror OS i dont have a desktop interface to check it with. However whenever i change the timezones in config to any region it does not update the Mirror at all.

Michael