@strawberry-3.141 & @broberg I believe that default alert module has inline styles for alerts and notifications that would override any CSS that is set outside of it.

For example take a look at https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/blob/master/modules/default/alert/alert.js#L39

		if (message.title) {
			msg += "<span class='thin' style='line-height: 35px; font-size:24px' color='#4A4A4A'>" + message.title + "</span>";
		}
		if (message.message){
			if (msg != ""){
				msg+= "<br />";
			}
			msg += "<span class='light' style='font-size:28px;line-height: 30px;'>" + message.message + "</span>";
		}

and https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/blob/master/modules/default/alert/alert.js#L81

		if (params.title) {
			message += "<span class='light' style='line-height: 35px; font-size:30px' color='#4A4A4A'>" + params.title + "</span>"
		}
		if (params.message) {
			if (message != ""){
				message += "<br />";
			}

			message += "<span class='thin' style='font-size:22px;line-height: 30px;'>" + params.message + "</span>";
		}

I believe that most elegant way of fixing it is to move those styles into CSS file and have ability to override it in custom.css or other file.

@cowboysdude I managed to get it up and running locally on a super old system running Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. I had some trouble starting electron via SSH when running DISPLAY=:0 npm start, but npm start worked just fine

Here is a list of steps that got it running (i’m running node v6.9.4 and npm v4.1.1):

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node --version
curl -sL https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sudo -E bash -
npm --version
cd MagicMirror/
cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js
npm install
npm start

Not sure if this will help. You can always try to run verbose mode npm start --verbose to see if there is any information that may lead you to finding a reason why it doesn’t start. It was very sluggish on my system, but this is a very old computer.

P.S. Sorry it took me a while to get to try it out and get back to you. It has been a very long and exhausting day.

Good luck.

@LincolnClay I’m glad it all worked out for you. But I would be careful adding sudo command to everything. You may run into permissions issues. The reason why you need to use sudo when installing packages with apt-get is because you need to have elevated privileges as you are making system wide changes. Cloning MM repository in your home directory shouldn’t require sudo, if you use sudo to clone all files will belong to root user and your user (usually pi) will not have permissions to create or modify files in MagicMirror directory (which opens a whole different can of worms).

TL;DR version: try to use sudo only when necessary.

@cowboysdude Do you have only one monitor (your TV through HDMI) to your Ubuntu box? Also you may want to attempt to run https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start just to see electron app running on your rig completely outside of MM codebase.

@cianoo45 are you still having problems starting the MM? That writeup was specifically for @cowboysdude who was trying to get MM setup on his Ubuntu system. You should be fine with npm v4.0.0 (on my RasPi I’m running node v6.9.2 and npm v3.10.9 if that matters)

@LincolnClay I’m not really sure why MM code is not picking up your /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js after restart.

By the way config.js.sample is just a sample config that can be copied into config.js and it comes along with MM code and doesn’t really play any role when MM starts up, so there is no need to modify that file in any way.

If your /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js keeps your desired changes, I wonder if you somehow have 2 different locations where MM is installed and configured. (I noticed that you have node_modules directory in /home/pi which seems a bit odd.)

I’m assuming you are starting MM with pm2 on a startup. Can you please show post contents of your /home/pi/mm.sh file (you can run cat /home/pi/mm.sh and copy/paste contents of the output) and also run pm2 list and pm2 show mm and copy/paste output here?

Sorry I’m kind of running out of ideas without knowing more information.

Thanks.

P.S. I’ve forked our conversation into a separate topic, this way we will not highjack original topic.

@nobita are you looking to open access to MM from all of the devices on your local network? If that’s the case you can add subnet mask of your local network.

For example if your router gives you IP address of 192.168.1.XXX (last 3 digits aren’t important and used for example only) then you would edit ipWhitelist setting in config.js as follows:

ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "192.168.1.1/24"],

192.168.1.1/24 is a subnet mask for all 256 IP addresses that your router can give out to devices. (this is the most common scenario and there is a chance that your setup may be different).

Don’t forget to restart MM app after making this change.

@Mykle1 Sorry about delay. It looks like your RasPi is using IPv6 and earlier I gave you instructions for IPv4. Sorry about misinformation.

For IPv6 setting ipWhitelist subnet mask to ::ffff:192.168.1.1/120 will give you access to 256 IP addresses. So your setting for ipWhitelist part in config.js would look like this:

ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.1/120"]

After making changes restart MM and try to access from browser on your computer.

Let me know if it worked. Thanks.

How is it his? There are 15 different Valentines themed icons and most of the code is shamelessly borrowed from MMM-Snow by @MichMich

Going to get some dinner and push it up to GitHub

@roramirez Yes you are right, I also thought about idea of general module that can be configured with various images or possibly have a schedule that will pick images from different folders and be hidden rest of the time.

This topic can probably be marked as “solved” - module thread is here https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1370/mmm-horoscope

I dug up the CHIP that was sitting and collecting dust to see if I can run MM on it. It was almost successful. I documented my installation and setup path here https://gist.github.com/morozgrafix/db069203ac4d8635a0f27e3dfa52f532