Is there anything that I am leaving out, thus creating the issue. As far as I can tell, everything has been done as stipulated in the tutorials, but my screen saver still kicks in every 5 minutes (roughly). I also changed the second variable under ’ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/nf ', I verified that I am indeed changing the actual variable and not the variable description. I did find that file and made the changes as described, my autostart file looks like -profile -desktop -profile s s -dpms ’ sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart ’ I am not able to find the first file, so I started reading this forum and came across this post:įollowing the directions, the first file is on a different location: ’ sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart ’ Section 5: Installing MagicMirror & Configuring Raspberry Pi for MagicMirror. He was among the first to build and document the entire smart mirror process with a Raspberry Pi. There are many like it, but this one is Michael Teeuw's. MagicMirror: The Original Pi Smart Mirror. Section 4: Cleaning up and updating the operating system. So make sure you have a screwdriver, screws, sander, woodworking tools, and so on.

Section 3: Configuring wireless networking. Section 2: Booting up the Raspberry Pi and configuring it. I started playing with a Magic Mirror a few days back (thanks to all the contributors), prior to that, I have read multiple posts, tutorials, blogs, etc one of them is actually from you mention that there are two locatons where chagnes need to be made in order to disable the screen saver: Section 1: Preparing the SD card with the operating system. I am reviving this topic as I have run into this same issue and have not been able to figure how to solve it.

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