MMM-PenPlotter -Render mesmerizing line animations on your mirror!

[bballboy21]

Description:

Render mesmerizing line animations on your mirror!

I wanted the mirror to act like a piece of art when I wasn’t using it for Weather, Spotify, Google Calendar etc… The less busy mirror with just the PenPlotting module running creates a really peaceful display. Looks great in the room, and it certainly captures the attention of guests.

Screenshots:

Videos https://github.com/jbamford/MMM-PenPlotter

The videos ^ look better, but here are some screenshots

Download:

https://github.com/jbamford/MMM-PenPlotter

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Version 1.0

It works on my machine (actively maintaining it if anyone has an issue).

[MZ-BER]

@bballboy21 That is awesome. Thanks for sharing your module!!

[RaspiManu]

@bballboy21
This looks amazing!

[BerkSmash1984]

Will this work in any valid position and with MMM-Pages, using classes? I attempted to add the module to page 2 of my MM setup, but nothing is displaying, and no errors in dev console. Here is my config:

 {
                    module: 'MMM-PenPlotter',
                    disabled: false,
                    position: 'top_left',
                    classes: 'page_2',
                    config: {
                            imagePaths: ['modules/MMM-PenPlotter/example_svg']
                    }
 },

[sdetweil]

@BerkSmash1984 what is the pages config?

do other modules appear on page_2?

if u disable pages, does the content appear?

[BerkSmash1984]

@sdetweil Thanks for the response

Yes, all other modules appear fine on page 2. Here is my pages config:

  {
                    module: 'MMM-pages',
                     disabled: false,
                    config: {
                            modules:
                                    [[ "page_1",], ["page_2"]],
                            // fixed: [ "clock", "MMM-Wallpaper", "MMM-page-indicator" ],
                            rotationTime: 30000,
                    }
},

I did confirm that after disabling MMM-Pages, it does work

[sdetweil]

@BerkSmash1984 the module delay time is 65 seconds and u have 30 seconds for pages.

so the module is waiting, and then gets hidden, restarting on show. then hidden…

[BerkSmash1984]

@sdetweil Thanks! Yup I just realized that too and changed the value for MMM-Pages to 6500 and it works. Only thing now is, if you have a background (I am using MMM-Wallpaper to display random in images from Bing and Chromecast) you will see an outline of the whole image instead of what is being drawn.

Wonder if there is a way to address that, besides disabling the background wallpaper…

[sdetweil]

@BerkSmash1984 welcome to the fun of backgrounds!

somehow you would need to make the image background not transparent, but you will get a big black box instead

[BerkSmash1984]

@sdetweil lol Indeed! Still a cool module. I will likely go back and forth between this and MMM-Wallpapers… Thanks for your help Sam