Basic Text on Magic Mirror

Snille

Hi!
Try one of these:
https://github.com/SaltyRiver/MMM-SimpleText
https://github.com/martinmeinke/MMM-display-text-file
https://github.com/SkogDev/MMM-Text

Depending on how you want it… :)

Sven1894

The deafualt module “helloworld” can do this :)

SymmetriC

@Snille Unfortunately, the only module I found that actually worked was MMM-Text, but the config.js stated (below) in the directions don’t work:

    module: 'MMM-Text',
    position: 'lower_third',
    config: {
        url: 'your url here'
    }
},

I tried multiple variations and still nothing. Instead, the only solution I found to make this module work was to go into the //MMM-Text.js file and change line #26 of the ‘Loading…’ to your desired text output from the following lines:

		this.text = 'Loading ..';
		var self = this;
		setInterval(function() {

Your new text would look like this:

// Schedule update timer.
		this.text = 'Write Whatever You Want';
		var self = this;
		setInterval(function() {

This will now display your text on the MagicMirror display. Hope I could help someone from the frustration I went through, but if someone has other solutions to make MMM-helloworld or MMM-Text work as intended, I’d appreciate it. :)

sdetweil

@SymmetriC what url did u provide?

if using the mm web server

http://localhost:8080/modules/MMM-Text/filename

for reading from filename in the module folder

if some other file NOT using the mm web server

file:///full_path_to_filename

and of course if on some server someplace else

http{s}://server name/path?parms_if_any

alienatedwan

@Snille Many thanks! It’s worked.