[MMM-JaST] Just another Stock Ticker (new: version 2.x)

spitzlbergerj

@Jalibu - A reboot of the Raspberry brought success. Everything is OK again. Sorry that I was too impatient.
Greetings and thanks for your work!

Harry

@Jalibu , Thanks for providing this! I have been using it for a few days. I have switched to the development branch as you describe here and updated everything, but the display looks the same as before and not like the one in your screen shot. Is that something special or am I missing a step?
Harry

Jalibu

@Harry in the config you need to set the value for „scroll“ to „table“.

Harry

@Jalibu Thanks! I knew I missed something. :-)

Jalibu

The latest update officially introduced the new additional “table” view mode.

Table

Vertical

Happy using :-)
Feedback welcome.

1a2a3a

Hi @Jalibu

how do i change the stock name color?
i have the module as static on my top right. how do i shift the entire thing to the screen right?

justbob

This module has been missing two things from the start, imho:

1.) Ability to rename “Portfolio:” to custom tag, just like we can set stocks.
2.) An option to add to portfolio cash amount.

Everyone likes seeing MagicMirror, but sometimes when guests come over, the last thing you want somebody from outside to see is that you actually have a portfolio, let alone the size of it.
Without it being seen, one can just say that they like to follow trends and keep things private.
I change the name of Portfolio to some made-up ticker and pretend it’s a ticker for some index, but it’s a drag to mess around with en.json file in translations folder every time there’s an update.

As for cash amount, sometimes there is unspecified amount of cash sitting in investors account. It’s not part of the portfolio per se, but being on investor account, it’s almost as good as being a part of portfolio.

Is there any chance of seeing 1.) and/or 2.) being implemented?

Jalibu

@justbob

Thank you for your feedback and ideas for improvement.

Do I understand your feature requests correctly?

You want a way to explicitly change the name of the portfolio to e.g. “my money pot:”?
Would you like a way to add a fixed value of money to the calculated portfolio assets consisting of shares?
portfolioValue = extraMoney + calculatedPortfolioValueBasedOnSpecifiedShares

Technically this is possible.
However, unfortunately I don’t have the time to fulfill new requests at the moment due to other projects.

But I am always happy to receive pull requests or small motivating donations.

Jalibu

Dear fans and users of this module,

unfortunately Yahoo has switched off the Stock API in its previous form. The module is therefore currently unable to retrieve data (an error appears in the log).

The author of the library that Jast uses to retrieve data from Yahoo is working on a solution. At the moment, however, it is unclear whether there will/can be one.

I will monitor the progress of the development and keep you informed.

I am sorry that there is nothing else I can do at the moment but wait and see.

Jalibu

Update: The issue was fixed.

Please read the version’s release notes for instructions for updating this module.