Posts made by PhilsterM9

@Mykle1 Hi there, thanks for the time you took to reply.

I did as you have written in your own instructions and when I try to configure my mirror through the read me file, it still won’t work. I am not sure what is happening. I am trying to start off by adding an analog clock instead of digital but it will not let me for the life of me. The trouble is that I know that I can change the file and make it work because I can tried changing the clock to sit on the right side instead of the left and it works.

I am a noob but this is really frustrating me. Thanks for helping.

Hi guys, to start, I’d like to say that I am not experienced with this stuff in any sort of way so whatever is explained to me would have to be in the simplest way possible.

Ok, so I have gotten up to the step where I get to customise how I want my mirror to look. I have tried many times but failed. It says in the tutorial that I have to ‘Duplicate config/config.js.sample to config/config.js’ but I don’t know what that means. When I enter ‘config/config.js.sample’ to the terminal while under the ‘cd ~/MagicMirror’ directory, it says permission denied. I don’t know what this means and I don’t know a way around it.

Could someone please explain to me how to customise my mirror? I have been stuck on this for over 2 weeks. Thanks!

@lolobyte it says "config.js config.js.sample config.js.save

@Snille When I put in the line “cd MagicMirror/config” it allows me to enter commands from the Magic Mirror (as it should) but then when I add the line “cp config.js.sample config.js” it only returns to the next line.
Before, I was trying to add configurations to the sample config but to get to that, I was entering “nano config.js” from the Magic Mirror instead from the pi.
From your last message, I thought that I needed to copy the code from the sample config and paste it into “nano config.js” but from the pi.
Am I doing this right? I am very lost, Thanks

@Snille Do I have to delete the sample configuration somehow? I copied and pasted what was in the sample configuration file to the “nano config.js” but no when I add any changes it won’t show them but instead the config from the sample. Should I delete it?

Thanks in advance

@lolobyte I keep seeing that step config.js.sample but I have no idea what it means. I don’t know how to execute it because it keeps coming back with “command not found”

Hi, I am new to coding and electronics in general so please excuse me if I get anything wrong in my wording (I am also a little new to this forum so I am not sure if this is the right section to put this in).

So basically, I have trouble trying to configure my mirror. I am following each step carefully but even after re-flashing my SD card twice, I am getting stuck at the same step. Whenever I try to change anything in my mirror it says that I need to add a configuration file or to correct it because it might be wrong. So now I am stuck with the default mirror that I use and can’t even change the timezone. I can add in a weather API for weather forecast but not anything else.

This is the line I use to put into the terminal to change my configurations:

cd MagicMirror/config
nano config.js

And this is the code that I have:

            {
                    module: 'clock',
                    position: 'top_left'
                    config: {
                            displayType: 'both',
                            analogSize: '150px',
                            analogFace: 'face-005',
                            analogPlacement: 'left'
                    }
            },

@in_a_days How do I change some of these settings (It looks confusing to me and I’m not sure if there is more to change than just the city name in weather for example)

@in_a_days Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you

@in_a_days So I did what @bhepler had written and now works on boot! Now I can’t access the terminal to add some configurations? How do I get around this?