Made a birthday module

[cgillinger]

@sdetweil said in Made a birthday module:

@cgillinger the other thing you can do is add support for the

suspend(){}
and resume{}

methods in your modulename.js

suspend means being hidden

resume means being shown

Done, but haven’t tried it with MMM-Pages yet, a bit to busy at work to install and try it that way. But its in the repo now.

[plainbroke]

@cgillinger
Works on the fireworks, but not on the MESSAGE part, It stays on the screen.
The fireworks came and went with the page it was supposed to.

[cgillinger]

@plainbroke said in Made a birthday module:

@cgillinger
Works on the fireworks, but not on the MESSAGE part, It stays on the screen.
The fireworks came and went with the page it was supposed to.

This annoys the hell out of me, if I get the time, I’ll try to set up a MM with MMM-Pages to test it here.

But to be clear:

The fireworks (and confetti?) works
But the message a) doesn’t show or b) shows, but does not get removed when MMM-Pages initiate page change?

[sdetweil]

@cgillinger b

[cgillinger]

@sdetweil said in Made a birthday module:

@cgillinger b

Huh?

[sdetweil]

@cgillinger you said a or b

I responded he said b

[plainbroke]

@cgillinger
As Sam said b it stays on the screen always. Just the message though.
Sorry it annoys you so.
Take your time I am not in a hurry, never am.
Just thought I would let you know. I am sure others are watching this to add to their pages too…

[xIExodusIx]

Unfortunately I have a few problems with your MMM-Birthday module. When I start the MM and there is a birthday, it is immediately displayed in the
middle (middle_center) on all pages without taking the position from config.js into account. The display is not yet dimmed on all pages.
Confetti is displayed in the correct position (lower_third) on the specified page as specified in the config.js, fireworks only sometimes but the
icons are missing!
On the 2nd and all subsequent runs of the pages, the birthday is also displayed in the correct position (lower_third) but without a name (undefined!)
with confetti (always) and fireworks (only sometimes) but still without icons. The display now will be dimmed on all pages.
If I start the MM and there is no birthday, everything is fine, nothing is displayed.
If a birthday is coming up from 00:00, it will be displayed as described above in the correct position (lower_third) with confetti but without a
name (undefiend!), without fireworks and without icons. The display is darkened on all pages so that it is barely legible.

See Pictures!

Hardware:
Raspberry Pi4 4GB RAM RaspiOS: Bookworm
Software:
MM 2.30 with MMM-Pages

[cgillinger]

@xIExodusIx Yes, there is an issue with it working alongside MMM-Pages. It seems that the methods I use to make it display interfere with MMM-Pages. MMM-Birthday doesn’t play well with others and tends to do its own thing, which doesn’t work with MMM-Pages. I’m working on a solution, but I haven’t had much time to spare lately.

[sdetweil]

@cgillinger

see the

suspend() and resume() functions you can add to be notified when being hidden (suspend) and shown (resume)