@brgracer you are welcome… I am the moderator here, and I feel my job is to help, and teach you how to solve problems on your own as much as I can.

and as I see recurring problems, try to document them, and find solutions,
my install/upgrade scripts,
my backup/restore scripts,
my MMM-Config module that does form based MM and module config, and module install (MMM-Config allows you to disable a module, effectively same as uninstall)

@brgracer
icon color only

.clock .fa-sun  {
        color: red;
}

for both icon and text the same color

.clock div.sun span.bright  {
        color: blue;
}

for each different, order here is important

.clock div.sun span.bright  {
        color: red;
}
.clock .fa-sun  {
        color: blue;
}

this works for me…

set clock to displaySeconds:false,
for debugging, so it doesn’t update the UI every second

then use the developers window, elements tab…
for a short starter , see the second link in my signature below…

once working, remove the displaySeconds:false

@monark MagicMirror was NOT developed ONLY for pi.
But ALSO For pi.

PI is one place making a mirror would be ‘easier’ due to
Its form factor.

But I have been running MagicMirror on droid, jetson nano,
Chromebox, desktop, windows, Mac since 2017

MagicMirror base is completely hardware neutral and mostly os neutral. As it runs on Linux , Windows and MacOS.

Specific modules might have hardware dependencies, like attaching sensors or cameras. But MagicMirror doesn’t itself

@monark the module uses opencv apis. In python and was modified to work w a specific version of opencv.
see the recognition.py, which the module launches in the background

  self.pyshell = new PythonShell('modules/' + this.name + '/tools/recognition.py', options);

They also removed working with usb cameras, now only pi camera (I think only latest). So it no longer works for me

@monark on your last point, oh if it were that easy

I use the qrcode module in a couple of mine and it’s used in others
Sadly the api has changed. Theirs won’t run on my version and mine won’t run on their version.

And the MagicMirror ui is a browser which never considered this problem, first one loaded wins.

I had to change my design to move the dependency someplace else. But we still need different versions.

And as things age they may or may not continue to work.

@raspberrypi9 does not appear to support user authentication info

you could open an issue on MM github.

@raspberrypi9 they have changed the feed to subscribers only , for a fee

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@monark you can make a fork of MagicMirror on github, and maintain your own if you wish

as for more usability, long been talked about…

I created a module to try to help with configuration, stop all the config file edit problems… and make each module config consistent from a user interface perspective

see https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Config

after a couple years, it lacked module install, so I have added that this year.

neither are perfect, as the core structure of MM doesn’t enforce any standards or structure… so my module has to discover (by default) what is defined by the author and how it is used… there are ways for developers or users to make a better UI for a module, but it takes work by someone…

I’ve helped a few authors provide a better experience for their module config…

BUT, its still JUST inside the MM realm… python, opencv, … lack of scripts to install all that … still out of bounds…

HA is ‘better’, but still needs work. I use the NON HAOS install(on synology), and there are lots of things you can’t do there (addons)… (music assistant with ESPhome satellite devices…has been weeks getting to work)

and there are lots of platform hacks you still have to figure out yourself… (zigbee dongle on DSM 7.2 with no serial port driver…)

some docker modules don’t actually work on the arm32 platform of my older 416j

SO, its not everything…

I worked for IBM for along time, and my mentors repeated over and over, you make an API, you are stuck with it… same data in produces the same data out, forever…

you can CHANGE the api by ADDING something, that produces NEW output, but you can’t take the old away…,.

fast forward to now… Breaking changes are all over the place. our customers will rebuy, make changes to their apps, if they want to keep using us… (else they weren’t really a good customer for us is their justification) …

so all the end user/consumer side spends enormous amounts of energy keeping things working, and not working on NEW stuff to help their businesses, or their lives…

@raspberrypi9 what news site is that?

@ember1205 great feedback, thank you
Glad it’s working again