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    Communication between webserver and MM

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    • B Offline
      bartalluyn
      last edited by

      Re: Communication between webserver and MM

      Hi strawberry,
      many thanks for your reply.

      I’ve been playing around. A lot. And I’ve come to a solution.
      The reason why I want to adjust the core is because I want to be able to control the entire mirror from another application. Whether it be a desktop application, another background process, and even Alexa Voice Services. The easiest way to do this is via HTTP I think, certainly because those processes could be running on other machines. I’ve succeeded in creating a system to do this. You can read all about in on my blog.

      [https://smartmirrorprojectblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/letting-the-electron-server-speak-to-the-mirror-client/](link url)

      Thanks again!

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        broberg Project Sponsor
        last edited by broberg

        I’m no where near a coder so disregard this If I don’t get it, but after some fast reading of your blog post, it sounds like you should be able to use the code from [card:paviro/MMM-syslog]

        to take commands from HTTP, the syslog module takes information from a string like this : http://MIRROR_IP:MIRROR_PORT/syslog?type=INFO&message=YOUR_MESSAGE

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          bartalluyn
          last edited by

          @broberg

          thank you very much for pointing this out to me. Looking at the code that might indeed be a viable alternative.
          I’m going to check it out, and post an article to my blog with my findings.

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            bartalluyn
            last edited by

            Hi there,
            I’ve been playing around, and changed the solution to the MMM-syslog alternative.
            Check it out in my blogpost:
            [https://smartmirrorprojectblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/an-alternative-custom-module/](link url)

            Thanks again for the pointer!

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            • strawberry 3.141S Offline
              strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @bartalluyn
              last edited by

              @bartalluyn thats what i meant in first place

              Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

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                bartalluyn @strawberry 3.141
                last edited by

                @strawberry-3.141
                Indeed, that’s what I realized after browsing through the syslog code. Kudo’s!

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