@sdetweil said in Question about backup script:

if i find extra files i need a place to store them, so the module name for a folder is created

Thanks for this explanation - this is what I had assumed.

Regards,
Ralf

@sdetweil said :

you could use git config to save those, and avoid the prompts

Sounds cool.
How can I do this?

Thanks!
Ralf

@sdetweil said in Question about backup script:

hm… I did

Dear Sam (@sdetweil),
yes - this worked for me as well :-)

Now figured out how it works:

Have issued

bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore/main/mm_backup.sh)" -r https://github.com/rkorell/MagicMirror -p 

Then I was asked for username and password (twice) and git upload worked…
It seems git upload now contains a copy of local directory mm_backup.

If I check both, there are only a few directoris in Github as well as locally - much fewer than total number of installed modules…
What is the criterium for a module to “earn” a directory or not?

Thanks a lot!

Warmest regards,
Ralf

@sdetweil ,

last trial (after digging in your script I understand that -p is not that correct…)
So I’ve figured out that reponame and username have their own prefix.
A prefix for the token is not present, so I assume user:token could be feasible.
So I came to

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore/main/mm_backup.sh) -p -r MagicMirror -u rkorell:ghpthisismyverylongandcryptictokenforgithub"

But this doesn’t work either…
So I’m desparately looking for the right place to put in the right parameters in the right manner.
Sorry for being this dumb…
Regards,
Ralf

@crowimu - Just a quick question: Have you considered to use a newer version of a Pi? A 4B or even 5?
Pi2 is somewhat old - may there is a kind of a root cause?

Regards,
Ralf

@crowimu
very unfortunate!

cross the fingers & good luck for you…

Ralf

@sdetweil Dear Sam,
seen backup/restore days ago and as the question arises here - I struggle with the commend line :-(

bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore/main/mm_backup.sh)" -h

works - I get some hints - same as on your github repo.

bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore/main/mm_backup.sh)" -p

doesn’t work?
"illegal option '- ’ " is the error message.
Where can I place the -p option?
(inside the brackets I get an errormessage from curl …)

This is also true if I add repo- and username and the token.
There is my second question: how to pass the parameters?

I’ve tried

bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore/main/mm_backup.sh)" -p MagicMirror rkorell ghp_thisismyverylongandcryptictokenforgithub

But with no luck.
MagicMirror is a fresh created repo, rkorell is my username on GitHub - token is fresh created private token according your guidance in module description.

Can you please help?

Thanks a LOT -as always,
Ralf

@com1cedric

I had tried a Hannspree Touch monitor which worked out of the box with Raspian OS - without any driver installation.
So it should work with MagicMirror as well.
Video is connected via HDMI and touch is realized via USB.

I do not use it for my MagigMirror - it‘s to small for my use-case.

If you really want to realize a MIRROR keep in mind that every capacitative touch functionality will NOT work behind a reflecting surface.
For this use case you have to consider IR-Frames around your mirror.
If you just want to use the monitor - fine …

Regards,
Ralf

@crowimu Found in completely different context another hint to onoff - also related to GPIO (in concrete a GPIO related implemetation of a rotary decoder).
There was a suggestion

npm install --save onoff@6.0.0

I currently only „assume“ that @6.0.0 is the version - cause the cited post is from 2021 there could be a new version.
A quick google delivers this page and this one stated

npm install onoff

Will do the trick…

Good luck.
Ralf

@crowimu Last thought - after some googeling…
Axled (the author has a thread about his module.
In one of his posting he stated
“rotation and click (Button press) uses the same library (onOff).”.

“node_modules/onoff/onoff” is part of your error-listing.

So I can imagine you need this onoff -library to read the GPIO-output.
Further research on this let me assume that onoff in some kind is associated to node.js (@sdetweil for sure knows more on this than me…).

At least one onoff library in this context is this one - but I’m not sure if this is the right one.
May you give it a try…

edit: I’ve just checked - on my own mirror there is NO onoff directory in “MagicMirror/node_modules/”

Good luck.
Ralf