@GoodWillGustin most of the services or apis u might use to access data somewhere are asynchronous. Meaning they will call u back later when they finish or fail.

@ezarlive it uses a fork of create-react-app under the hood so all of the same features (and ones that come out in the future) will be there. Hoping to make developing a module a perfect starter project for people interested in React.

@Seppelicous yes, chromium is enough…

in the past , chromium wasn’t on the pi…

my installer actually uses chromium for the pi0 now as electron won’t run on the armv6l at the higher node levels.

One option might be the MMM-AlexaControl module

@Vauxdvihl there are 2 different kinds of modules.
The first is a normal Alexa on your Mirror (MMM-Awesome Alexa)
The second kind of Alexa modules work as fake Wemo devices and is able to turn on of modules …(MMM-AlexaControl) but you need a echo device.

Working perfectly. Thanks really appreciated

Hi everybody :)

I have an old Pi 2 lying around and I’m thinking of building some sort of smart display coupled with a media centre. I’ve read through the forum and got an idea of which modules I want and how the display could look like. However, as I’m new to MagicMirror, I’d like to hear your opinions and suggestion on my ideas to see if it’s possible.

In an ideal world, the setup would be capable of following things:

show MagicMirror on my TV as a default (automatically start in the morning (CEC available), display MM using remote control or smartphone, sleep automatically after X minutes) possibility to play music on speakers attached to the Pi from an external hd, controlled via smartphone (I don’t need Spotify or any other streaming source) possibility to play videos on my TV from an external hd or online (youtube, TedTalks, …). Integrated into MM or in an separate application. Controllable via TV remote and/or smartphone.

There is no need to have these 3 thing run parallel. I won’t need MM when playing music or Kodi and vice versa.

Currently this is my idea:

have MagicMirror running on Raspian have a Mopidy music server running in the background (can be controlled via smartphone) install Kodi and switch to it when I want to watch videos (can be controlled via smartphone and TV remote)

I am wondering if my Pi can handle all this or if I need a newer model?
Is it possible to play music on the speakers (TV off) while have the videos & sound on the TV?
How would I switch from MM to Kodi? Could I control Kodi and MM with the TV remote? Are there modules to handle this (I’m thinking of Alt-Tab application switching…)?
Should I run MM in a server/kiosk mode (display in browser) or with a regular installation?

Sorry for asking so many noob questions ;) Any help is greatly appreciated :)

Cheers,
asnaeb

@Kereknjek i would start slow…

use my sample, send one request, get back content. you cannot put a whole page up unless u open an iframe…

MM is called a Single Page Application… (SPA)…
in this model, each ‘module’ contributes a little content (a div’s worth) and that little bit is injected into the running view of the web page (dom=document object model) again, you can see this layout on the developers window, elements tab

u can do this on your Windows PC too with chrome, press ctrl-shift-i on any page (again to turn it off)

@Stoffbeuteluwe nobody an idea?

@daegon-jjiya sorry,I think we will have to wait for @Sean to help. He is the module author.

Hi guys!
Any idea how this guy got his LEDs to light up differently when talking to Alexa?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3VVZA0e5Y

I’m also looking to find out the differences between the Alexa modules, it seems awesome Alexa is the best?

Thanks

@Lordy Ich weiß nicht recht.
Meine config sieht so aus:

{ //disabled: true, module: 'MMM-Celebrations', position: 'top_left', header: "HEUTE IST:", config: { } },

Probiere die doch mal aus.

The best program to install magicmirror is Deepin 15.11 not even one issue to install magicmirror. Deepin is a lenux os and i used node 6.9 version and after i installed the node just install the npm install - g pm2 and start installing the MagicMirror this is great and sorry my english is not too good lololol but im happy with this project thanks to all of you

@broberg
Great thanks man !!!

@BigMan said in Create another config.js file:

even easier!
put all your configs into the config folder
then just set which on to use

#!/bin/bash # set my config export MM_CONFIG_FILE=~/MagicMirror/config/config1.js # then call mm.sh exec ~/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh

thanks @strawberry-3-141

I’m thinking about a solution for secure passwords in modules.

Expl. default calendar module and 100 others also need password and I have to write it in plain text in config.js

Is there a way to get this in a secure way?

Hello everybody,
is there any way of displaying a server (Qnap) shared photo album url (public) on MagicMirror slideshow?
Have already tried a few modules but without success.
Which module would I need to integrate?
Thank you very much

Hi all,
Found MM and think it’s the bee’s knees… Have not been able to stopping thinking about how to use it :)

Looked at some of the bin collections modules and they are brilliant but I didn’t want to use CSV files. So I came up with a way to reuse the calendar module. Create a bin collection calendar in Google Calendar and then adding recurring entries for collections, for me it’s every two weeks on a Monday:
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Moved any individual dates that clashed with Public Holidays (Easter Monday) etc and then added a new entry in config.js

{ module: "calendar", header: "Bin Collection", position: "bottom_left", config: { maximumEntries: 3, // as I only have 3 bins fetchInterval: 3600000, // update every hour timeFormat: "dateheaders", // group by date maximumNumberOfDays: 14, // it's a two week cycle for me fade: false, // no fade please calendars: [ { symbol: "trash", // trash icon :) url: "webcal://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/..../basic.ics" // update this to point to your bin calendar } ] } },

and now the below is exactly what I need:

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Hope this is of use to someone :)
Carl

@FruityBebbles the voice based modules have a heck of a time… lots of tricky dependencies (which keep changing out from under the module as time goes by)

@magicmirrorpi4

no… my script does all/any platforms I have test on pi0-i4, mac, ubuntu, windows ubuntu, jetson nano, odroid.

it will replace the the current one in the product on next release.
the current one doesn’t work much other than pi 2/3