MM-Navbar - Navigation Bar for Touchscreens to hide/show modules

[tidus5]

Hey @chrisyy - hope you are well.
Since the update i have a problem with the hide/show all butt - function not recognized in this line

			MM.getModules().exceptWithClass('MM-navbar').exceptWithClass('MMM-ShipmentTracking').exceptWithClass('clock').enumerate(function(module){

and now the weather and the current weather are not hide at startup - do you have the same problem ?

[chrisyy]

@shashank u would need to have 2 of them installed, lets say one is Mail-Gmail, the second is Mail-Hotmail

@tidus5 until now i haven’t tested it and im moving to a new place, so i my mirror aswell as my server is laying in a box right now. I saw that in the new version, there are visibility-locking options. Maybe this will have to do something with it. As soon as it is possible for me to do something, i will take a look and hopefully can fix this.
second thing: u should not make 3x exceptwithclass, do one and separate the modules with commata.

[in_a_days]

I think this module is very cool! My present build is non-touch so I made some small additions (informed by @GinSeng in another thread) and I’m currently using voice to trigger the Navbar. Love it! I’ll be happy to provide code or details if anybody is interested.

[shashank]

@in_a_days hi, can you please share the code

[AlessandroRa]

Hi @chrisyy thank you for this awesome module!
Only problem is that with this module on, the Hide/show all module disappeared. How can I fix it?
Thanks!

[in_a_days]

@shashank

For sure. Forgive me if there are several steps.

First thing is to install this module

https://github.com/alexyak/voicecontrol

Go to your MagicMirror/modules folder and type

git clone https://github.com/alexyak/voicecontrol.git

Then install dependencies with

sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio sox

Next, install the navbar. Again, make sure you are in the MagicMirror/modules folder and type

git clone https://github.com/chr1syy/MM-navbar.git

Then you will need to go to this website and define your voice commands.

https://snowboy.kitt.ai/

Keep track of the keywords you define and the filenames you produce. Each keyword/command will require you to download a .pmdl file that needs to be copied into the MagicMirror folder on your Pi. I’m only using 3 commands so far - calendar, newsfeed, and weather.

Still with me? Sweet! Lets configure config.js. Go to the MagicMirror/config folder and

nano config.js

Assuming you know where to place a new module in this file, add the navbar module with

            {
                    module: 'MM-navbar',
                    position: 'fullscreen_above'
            },

Next we will add the voice control call to the same config.js file. There are a couple variables here that will depend on the keywords and filenames you used on the snowboy site. Here is the code I use

          {
                    module: 'voicecontrol',
                    position: 'bottom_right',
                    config: {
                            models: [
                                            {
                                                    keyword: "Calendar",
                                                    description: "Say 'Calendar' to toggle display",
                                                    file: "calendar.pmdl",
                                                    message: "CALENDAR"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                    keyword: "Newsfeed",
                                                    description: "Say 'Newsfeed' to toggle display",
                                                    file: "newsfeed.pmdl",
                                                    message: "NEWSFEED"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                    keyword: "Weather",
                                                    description: "Say 'Weather' to toggle display",
                                                    file: "weather.pmdl",
                                                    message: "WEATHER"
                                            }
                                    ]

                            }
            },

Note that the keyword and file need to match the keyword and filenames you used on your Snowboy files. Save and quit out of config.js and we’ll hit the last step. We need to make a couple changes to the navbar code. Navigate to MagicMirror/modules/MM-navbar then

nano MM-navbar.js

First change is at line 13. Right now lines 12-19 look like this

notificationReceived: function(notification, payload, sender){
	if (notification === 'DOM_OBJECTS_CREATED'){
		MM.getModules().exceptModule(this).exceptWithClass('clock').enumerate(function(module){
			module.hide(1000, function(){
			});
		});
	}
},

You will need to modify it to look like this

    notificationReceived: function(notification, payload, sender){
            if (notification === "CALENDAR"){
                    var calendarbutton = document.getElementById('calendar-button');
                    calendarbutton.click();
            }
            if (notification === "NEWSFEED"){
                    var newsbutton = document.getElementById('news-button');
                    newsbutton.click();
            }
            if (notification === "WEATHER"){
                    var weatherbutton = document.getElementById('weather-button');
                    weatherbutton.click();
            }
    },

Now we’re going down to the section that originally starts on line 32

	wrapper.className = "center";
	weatherbutton.className = "wi wi-day-rain-mix navbar";
	calendarbutton.className = "fa fa-calendar navbar";	
	newsbutton.className = "fa fa-newspaper-o navbar";		

And change it to

            wrapper.className = "center";
            weatherbutton.className = "wi wi-day-rain-mix navbar";
            weatherbutton.id = 'weather-button';
            calendarbutton.className = "fa fa-calendar navbar";
            calendarbutton.id = 'calendar-button';
            newsbutton.className = "fa fa-newspaper-o navbar";
            newsbutton.id = 'news-button';

Save, close and restart your MM and you should have a working, voice responsive nav bar. I know there are kind of a lot of steps here and typos and omissions are entirely possible. If you have any problems let me know and I’ll try to help. Cheers!

[chrisyy]

@in_a_days maybe u can make a fork of it in git? Thanks for sharing ur code.

@AlessandroRa There’s also a button in this module for hiding/showing everything. Do u have another module that will do this function for it?

@All
Forgive me if I’m not answering in time. Since I’m moving my time is very limited.
When we are done (maybe in 2-3 Weeks) i will do some updates on my own mirror and will update code if needed.

U can also submit code on git, i will take a look and implement it.

I’ll try to Keep in touch.

[in_a_days]

@chrisyy

Here is the navbar code with my modifications:

https://github.com/in-a-days/MM-navbar

The user will still need to install voicecontrol, create and load the .pmdl files, and properly configure config.js.

Is the show/hide all button part of this build? I’m looking for something like

	var showallbutton = document.createElement("span");

to match these

	var weatherbutton = document.createElement("span");
	var newsbutton = document.createElement("span");

And I’m not finding anything. Thanks again, I really love this module!

[AlessandroRa]

@chrisyy All I have is the weather, calendar and news buttons, how can I get more of them?
I’m using: Mail, Hello World, Alarm, News, Calendar and Music player.
For hiding/showing all I’m using this module: https://github.com/masters1222/mm-hide-all

[tosti007]

@chrisyy first of all I want to say that your module looks really nice, unfortunate that my mirror won’t have touch ;(. This module could be used in conjunction with my ProfileSwitcher module. This way you won’t have to bother with showing/hiding certain modules and others won’t have to modify your code. :)