Posts made by robmcc83

Thanks you for responding so quickly.
And also thanks for clearing all that up for me, it makes more sense now lol.
As it is working I shall just leave it as it then, I just wanted to double check if I should of been doing anything about these warnings.
Rob

Hi,
I have just updated my mirror as my mirror was running Jessie and I wanted to make sure I was on the latest os
So a fresh memory card, with latest stretch image updated and ready to, I use the auto installation method mentioned on github and during the installation there are alot of warnings about packages. I couldn’t catch what any of them was as it was going quite quick.
I believe it was vulnerabilities do to out of date npm packages.
After it had finished it all works but my question is should I ignore these warnings and is this normal, or should there be something else I’m doing after installing mm2
Thanks
Rob

Hi all I have another new project on the go here and I’m wanting to know if what I’m trying to achieve is possible.
Basically what I want is a mirror that display slideshow of family photos.
Then when I say for example “mirror wake” it displays the magic mirror software for say 5 minutes then goes back to photos or even say for example “mirror sleep” instead.
Not sure how easy this would be, I was thinking maybe some sort of screen saver for photos making sure the monitor doesn’t sleep, then just a voice command to open close mirror software, but usually when I think something can be simple it really isn’t lol.
Anyway any help or advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Rob

I use to use my rpi3 which had retropie install on it also as a plex server and had torrent software on it, I used it like that for around 8 months and everything was fine but the only problem I had is I use to take the pi to friends houses alot at weekends then the kids use to moan that they couldn’t watch anything on plex whilst I was out lol.
But it seems retropie uses less resources when idle than magic mirror does.
For example if I enter “top” on my magic mirror electron is running twice and cpu usage is around 25-30%.
Retropie on the other hand idles around 1-3% only even going up a couple of percent whilst streaming to my smart tv.
I think I’ll just have to pull out one of my spare memory cards and see what happens I think.
For sure I’ll post back my results here just for everyone else’s information:)
Cheers

Hi all.
Didn’t quite know where to post this as it’s no a problem it’s just info for my own purpose.
I would like to know if magic mirror is resource heavy on cpu and ram as I would like to attach a hard drive to it aswell and setup up dlna on my mirror so I can also use to stream media across my network.
Obviously don’t want to put to much pressure on my little pi 2 that’s currently in my mirror.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Rob

@Mykle1 that’s cool as what are you using for the voice command I love that its brill.

That’s brill your a legend, got a few hours to myself tomorrow so armed with all this information and sure be giving this a try see what the outcome is.
Thank you so much

One interesting thing I like about the second way is it seems easy lol.

Would it be possible to say have the screen come on 6-9am in the morning Monday to Friday then come on again 4-10pm as everyone out at work or school during the day. Than say set it so that its on 8am till 10pm on a saturday and sunday when everyone is usually about.

Thanks

Thanks this is very useful information that I didn’t know before.
I have issued the sudo tvservice -o command and it did indeed shut down my monitor.
But what I am trying at the moment is to have it shutdown and wakeup the monitor with a usb webcam now.
That’s what I’m struggling with.
Cheers

Ok so after trying various ways to get my monitor to turn off I have still been unsuccessful.
What I am trying now is with a webcam.
I found in my box of computer bits a Microsoft lifecam hd 3000.
After a little Google research I can confirm the webcam works with the pi using motion software.
I also found a site explaining how I can add a start and and event on detection so I set vgencmd display_power 1 as start event and vgencmd display_power 0 as end event but still no luck it just keeps display on but if I enter the command in terminal my display turns on/off as it should.
Am I going about this in the most awkward way or is there a simple way to get the monitor to sleep using the usb webcam.
Thanks in advance