@jasondreher

Hey Jason - Currently as soon as the track changes, the IFTTT trigger fires and the web request places a new memo on my MMM-Memo mirror module so I’d say within about 5-10 seconds of the new track playing via any Echo device, it’s showing on my mirror. I think that solves for the first “currently playing” part.

And then your second - much trickier - question…I am not aware of any way to have the JSON formatted request carry the album art information over from IFTTT via webhooks to be displayed in MMM-Memo. I started down the track of creating a custom Alexa skill using Amazon ASK to then try and find a way to display Alexa cards (like what show up on Echo Show) to the mirror but ran into multiple roadblocks.
Open to ideas though! Like you, I’m curious if anyone else out there on the boards has found a more elegant solution? I posted this idea/pieced-together solution after hours of trying to find something to work hoping I might not be the only one struggling with the concept.

Looking back on my config convention, it’s really confusing. autoPlay does not mean that the video plays right when the mirror boots up, it means that when the view is switched to video by use of the notification it plays without any more need for interaction. The play feature is mostly meant to be used with voice modules and I specifically developed it to work with my own in which all you would need to do to get it to work would be to add the module and put the following into your config.js

{ module: MMM-Voice-Commands, config: { commands: { "play video": "ROSS_PLAY_VIDEO", "stop video": "ROSS_SHOW_IMAGE" } } }

Now when you say play video, it will switch to the video view and when you say stop video, it will switch back to the painting.
However, using MMM-Voice-Commands is not necessary, any module that can be configured to emit a notification to ROSS_PLAY_VIDEO and start the video.

There isn’t much I can do about the low definition pictures. That is just the quality the website I am using has them in. That’s why I put the module in the lower left hand corner and made it small; it still looks like a nice nature scene, but the low resolution is unobtrusive.

@joelman

I especially like the Earth module portion. ;-)

I am still trying to fix the drop outs on the radio stream. I now suspect that it has nothing to do with the wifi connection but somehow with the resources of the PI. I have Alexa & WakeWord running in the background as well as Magic Mirror and Node Red. I switch alexa and wakword off by closing the terminal screens but the server probably still runs so i cant realy rule it out. Anyway to provide radio with more resources or to finalse the cause ?
I also noticed, that after a few seconds of running radio, the VCN connection and even terminal connection disconnects.

@Rolandb
Hi, are you still facing the issue?

@jabellas said in MMM-htmlvideo, Basic video file player:

@cowboysdude Yes, thanks. I ended up doing just that. It seemed to me initially counterintuitive that it would play faster from an external location than locally but it is perfectly smooth if I host the video on a separate web server.

I agree with you!! Glad you got it working better :)

Cool, nice idea :)

Hi @s-cotton, great module! I’m using this and your Sonarr module, love them both. I seem to be having a problem that shows up on both, but mostly on the Radarr module.

With Sonarr, the downloads that it displays are sometimes quite out of date but as of late it seems to be working better. I just installed the Radarr module and it’s been showing the same download for the last hour or so.

What inside of Radarr controls how “recent” a download is, would this be causing the modules to be out of date?

Thanks again. :)

ok now its correkt … i think. but now, the mirror is black.
node start without any error

Thanks for the modules works well, instructions were to the tee!.

newer spotify connect app - raspotify works out of the box:
https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify
https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/howto-spotify-connect-support-via-raspotify-librespot/38348

but there is no frontend yet

@cowboysdude

I’m running out of ways to praise your efforts here. :^)

Description:

The discogs module provides access to your discogs.com collection showing a random release from your collection including additional information.

As this is my first module and even my first experience with node.js any feedback regarding usability or even code quality is appreciated a lot.

Screenshots:

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Download:

[card:mboskamp/MMM-Discogs]

Version 0.2 first stable version

@Kiina K-pop? Wow, I’ve not imagined there is someone who is listening Kpop even in Germany. Nice to meet u. :)

Description:

2 More comic strips… you can choose from either Calvin and Hobbes or Frazz.
Shows new strip every 30 minutes.

Screenshots:

Calvin and Hobbes
0_1499136040194_calvin.png

Frazz
0_1499136049991_frazz.png

Download:

[card:cowboysdude/MMM-Comic]

Version 1.0.0

Of course, let your hobby wait. :D there are more important things to do.

tonight i will do a gi pull and give a feedback. Thank you so far!