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

[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

[tdw]

@BerkSmash1984
I use both MMM-PenPlotter and MMM-Wallpaper (the jupadin version) and was able to make the images transparent with no black box. You need to edit each of the svg files in the example_svg folder.

Most of the files were updated by adding

fill="transparent"

in the section with:

<desc>pwidth:500;pheight:500;</desc>
    <path
       stroke="#999999"
       stroke-width="0.2mm"
       fill="transparent"
       

There were a couple where background was already defined in the 3rd row of the files so it had to be updated there. Let me know if you need more specifics.