Hey all,
turns out, that the MMM-PIR-Sensor Module is buggy - well, at least for me.
Can’t get it to work, but i found an alternative: MagicMirror-Display-Controller

Works like a Charme!

Case closed

Have a nice weekend!

I did a little research and stumbled over severall issues on the github page - this one catched my eye, but didn’t brought me any luck…

So, what did i do excatly?

1. Install:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/
git clone https://github.com/paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor.git
npm install
sudo usermod -a -G gpio pi
sudo chmod u+s /opt/vc/bin/tvservice && sudo chmod u+s /bin/chvt
sudo reboot

2. New wiringPI version:

sudo apt-get purge wiringpi
hash -r
sudo apt-get install git-core
cd
git clone git://git.drogon.net/wiringPi
cd ~/wiringPi
git pull origin
./build
sudo reboot

3. reinstall EPOLL:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/
sudo npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild ./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild

4. recompile Electron:

npm list | grep electron
cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor
npm rebuild --runtime=electron --target=1.4.5 --disturl=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell --abi=50
sudo reboot

Expectation: It Works now…
Reality: It does not…

my Config is:

{
          module: 'MMM-PIR-Sensor',
          config: {
                       sensorPin: 23,
                       powerSaving: true,
                       powerSavingDelay: 120 // 2 Minutes
                       }
},

I just excluded this part of my config - and my mirror displays everything again…

Andy ideas left?

@sdetweil thanks for the headsup - but this does not work… i see the mous coursor though, but that’s it.
I even can’t “cancel” the fullscreen mode of the magic mirror by pressing F11 (usually this brings me back to the desktop)

Hello everyone,

i just found out about this module - didn’t even know this exists - and i hat to try it!
I’m planning on saving some energy by powering off the Monitor.

The install worked fine and the PIR Sensor is working (i have a litte .py script that’s prints a message in the shell if a movement is dedected) BUT the screen stays black!

The Monitor is powerd on - i even see the desktop seconds bevor MM boots up, but the screens stays black and nothing is displayed.

I noticed this before when i was trying to turn my monitor on and off again with tvservice --off / tvservice --preferred.
If i use vcgencmd display_power 1 / vcgencmd display_power 0 my Monitor perfectly switches on and off again.

But, i checked the “node_helper.js” on github and the helper file is using the “vcgencmd script”

What is going here? Any ideas how i can solve this?

Uhoh… i almost forgot:
It all works like a charme now!

Thank you @ninjabreadman!

…Maybe i will write a litlle howto… but after all it was pretty straight forward.

This Thread can be closed now.

YES! Thanks!
I didn’t realised that…

Yes i know
But everytime i enter

touch ~/.vdirsyncer/config

i get, that it can’t find the directory…
(" touch: ‘/home/pi/.vdirsyncer/config’ kann nicht ber▒hrt werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden")

Ok… I am stuck…

The Google API creation wasn’t a problem, and installing the vdirsyncer worked well also.

But now i am supposed to create a conifg file in ~/.vdirsyncer/config - but i get an error everytime, that this File or Folder can’t be found…

If i run ls -l in usr/bin, i get the following output:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 3 21:32 vdirsyncer -> /home/pi/.local/bin/vdirsyncer

So… it is an folder… but why can’t i access it??
Am i missing something?

thanks!

@ninjabreadman (nice name btw)
Thanks for your headsup.
Yes this is directly from Google.
Unfortuantley, adding the start/end dates won’t work. It seems to me, that i have to make my calendar public, in order to use this… and i do not want this.

I’ll try to find the time to check out your other Hint with vdirsyncer. Looks easy enough.

I’ll keep you posted!

Thanks and a nice weekend

Hey everyone,

i stumbled over the MagicMirror Project almost a year ago and was already then hooked!
I am now currently building my own, but i got a problem with the Calender plugin.

My main Google Calender won’t load. All i get is “Loading…”
I tried to open the FIle via Chrome and it imediatly downloaded it (https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/myname%40gmail.com/private-key/basic.ics).

The file size is 1,35MB - is this a problem for the mirror? Because any other File (like a Holiday ics from the web with 27KB or even my quick created test gmail account with only one appointment) will load and display the events on the mirror…

Is there any way to fix this?

I’m running the newest version of the MagicMirror on a Raspi 3
PRETTY_NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)”
NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“9”
VERSION=“9 (stretch)”

Any help is apreciated - even if it is a workaround…
Thanks!