- #WORKING WITH MAGIC MIRROR MODULES HOW TO#
- #WORKING WITH MAGIC MIRROR MODULES UPDATE#
- #WORKING WITH MAGIC MIRROR MODULES SOFTWARE#
#WORKING WITH MAGIC MIRROR MODULES SOFTWARE#
To make a software project professional, it is important to review code of your team mates. That means that every day, the module we will create gets more popular.Īs can be seen in the Product Breakdown Structure below, it takes a lot of work to make a module.
The message can be dismissed by reading or acknowledging the message on the user’s Discourse-platform.ĭiscourse is getting more popular every day. That way, you see the message casually when you walk by your mirror in the living room. Having the notifications displayed on a mirror is a nice solution.
When the message is showed to you in the mirror, you don’t have to check the site or your mail every time. When someone sends you a message, you don’t want to let them wait. One of them, is RobotExchange.io, the site where our minor communication takes place. Modules can: Show the time and date, show the weather forecast, show when your train leaves, show news and much more.ĭiscourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application that is used by many sites. Right now, there are 671 3rd-party modules publicly released for everybody to use, and ours is the 672th! While it works as a mirror, you can see the screen through the glass. What is a MagicMirror?Ī MagicMirror is a see-through mirror in front of a display, that is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi. Our plugin makes it possible to show notifications of every website that uses Discourse, a discussion/mailing/forum platform used by over 10.000 organisations. That is a smart mirror, driven by a Raspberry Pi, that shows you news, information and notifications. We made a module (plug-in) for the MagicMirror ( see it here). That should not have taken too long.MagicMirror Module for displaying Discourse notifications Introduction If its away, congratulations you updated the Magic Mirror module.
#WORKING WITH MAGIC MIRROR MODULES UPDATE#
Restart the Magic Mirror or wait for a little and the update message on top of your screen should disappear. If you encounter problems you can delete and reinstall the module with “git reset –hard” In some cases you also have to use the “npm install” command, as the changes have to be installed, that is not necessary for all modules, but for some. When you are in the folder of the module, pull the new data with: In my case I want to update the TPLink module, if you want to update another one, you have to type that instead. It will autocomplete the command for you if there is just one alternative. Notice that you don’t have to write everything when you use the * in the end. Choose the module you want to update with:Ĭd MMM-TP* Magic Mirror Update Message for a module With “ls” the raspberry pi will list you all the folders you can access from here. So you have to write capital and lower case letters where needed. Navigate to your modules folder with:īe aware that the “cd” command is case sensitive.
#WORKING WITH MAGIC MIRROR MODULES HOW TO#
Here is a link that shows you how to set up one from. The most comfortable way to update your Magic Mirror modules is by using an SSH connection. But every second or third month its time to have a quick look and fix everything. So normally it’s pretty easy to keep everything updated. These update messages don’t show up a lot. As I just wrote about how to set up a Magic Mirror, I also want to show you how to update a module as well. Yesterday I got a message on my Magic Mirror to update one of the modules.
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