MagicMirror is an information dashboard app written in Node.js. You will use Magic Mirror, an open-source application. That should not have taken too long.Get the weather, news and even commute times all while grooming in the morning with the aid of a Raspberry Pi and the official Raspberry Pi touch screen. If its away, congratulations you updated the Magic Mirror module. 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. 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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