@nuckinfutz Excellent point, I’m not having power issues so I will probable just leave it how it is. Thanks for the input.

@nuckinfutz Will this disable both wlan1 and wlan0, wlan0 being the native wireless adapter? I currently have both active and the dongle is working great. I would trial and error it but I am trying to avoid disabling wireless and losing my SSH connection. Will have to open it all up and connect a keyboard to get it running again.

@bhepler Thanks for the reply. Can you point me to a good “how to” on disabling the on-board and enabling a wi-fi dongle.

I’ve been able to get my MM up and running when all the parts and pieces are outside the wooden frame I built. When I assemble it all into the frame I lose my wi-fi connection. Its seems that either the housing is shielding the unit or there is radio interference from the monitor.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 with on-board wi-fi. I poked around the internet and found some info on modding the board to add a bigger antenna but I would prefer not to mod the board. Has anyone had experience with disabling the on-board wi-fi and adding a wi-fi dongle? Has anyone had similar trouble and solved it some other way? Any help would be appreciated.

I am getting the same issue with the black screen. When I access via localhost:8080, I get the default screen that tells you to create a config file. I was using a config.js file from an old build I did that worked, but I replaced it with the config file posted above and I get the same issue.

pi@n8MM:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.1.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

Starting MagicMirror: v2.1.1
Loading config ...
Loading module helpers ...
No helper found for module: clock.
No helper found for module: compliments.
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 ... 
Starting server op port 8080 ... 
You're using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs
Server started ...
Sockets connected & modules started ...
Launching application.
^C
pi@n8MM:~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v7.9.0
pi@n8MM:~/MagicMirror $ electron -v
v1.3.15
pi@n8MM:~/MagicMirror $