I used most of this information and I can’t thank everyone enough for all the contributions. Thank you.

@Anhalter42 one thing that has come up, now at the top center of the MM screen a notification stating that there is a magicmirror update and I am 12 comments behind on the develop branch. What do I need to do to either stay updated or should i just (git checkout master, git pull)?

is there any problem with the lightdm.conf file being empty, if not everything else is running smoothly.

I was still having the blank screen happen after 30 minutes so i went back and checked the autostart and lightdm.conf files to make sure I hadn’t made any mistakes. However, the lightdm.conf file is coming up with no text in it. What is the best way to restore this information so i can make sure the [SeatDefaults] has the correct settings?

Awesome thanks to both of you I am researching other options to see if i can increase the %.

Hey can someone confirm the specs on this mirror are within what people are using that works?

Thickness 6mm
Transmittance Visible 11%
Exterior Visible Reflectance 38%
Interior Visible Reflectance 16%
U-Value (WinterNighttime) 1.02
Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) 0.39
Light To Solar Gain 0.28

I have MM working and configured now its just down to getting the actual mirror and mounting. Thank you everyone for all of your help.

@Anhalter42 I think the only changes to the compliments.js would be the location of the remote file, I think there was just the issue because it automatically aborted git checkout master because of that error. But putting a stock compliments.js file in the directory and then git checkout master, get pull gave an already updated message.

What I meant is I when i used the full size list it would only display the stock compliments but reduced list in the remote file work.

I basically debugged the problem by adding compliments to the remote file in chunks until I was satisfied with the amount. It seems to be working now with about 115 compliments per morning, afternoon, evening. I think i am going to call that a victory and move on to the next project. PIR alexa and sound reactive led.

Thank you for your help.

@Anhalter42 I knew this guy and he was having a problem with git checkout develop because when he did that it said error: your local changes to compliments.js would be overwritten and then it said Aborting.

@Anhalter42 I read that thread but i thought it didn’t apply to me because i am using standard compliments morning, afternoon and evening. Nothing about weather. And not because i dont know, but because i want to check and make sure you know…

What does “You can switch to develop branch by git checkout develop in the MagicMirror directory.” mean to you?

Thank you for responding.

I have an external file that is working but I have an issue. With a smaller compliments (70) list it works fine but does not seem to be that random, I will see the same ones repeated only a few compliments after they first appear. I checked the method of randomization and it seems to be based on random.math which claims to be random. When i try to use a larger list (125) it seems to break it so I am thinking there is a maximum size list i can have. Any ideas?