Family Mirror

[dathbe]

I finally got around to making my mirror presentable, so I thought I’d show it off.

Yes, I do have eventual plans to do something about that brown electrical cord hanging out the bottom.

The guts are a 30" TV I pulled out of its shell and a Raspberry Pi 4B. I used some 1"x3" and some molding to build a simple box frame.

The primary modules are:

alert
updatenotification
clock
MMM-Remote-Control - used for updating several other modules
MMM-CustomText - used to show a message via a python script when there are apt updates for my RPi, and weather alerts via another python script
MMM-EarthquakeAlerts
MMM-RandomPhoto
MMM-MagicMover
MMM-ModuleScheduler - hides certain modules when they’re out of season
MMM-Carousel - rotates through 5 separate pages

Page 1 - Calendar
MMM-CalendarExt2 - It pulls from a generic GMail calendar I’ve convinced my wife to invite to anything the whole fam should know about
MMM-Multimonth

Page 2 - Weather
MMM-RAIN-MAP - only displays when rain is predicted in the next 12 hours
weather - used only to trigger MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast
MMM-MoonPhase
A proprietary module that displays a day/night map of the earth
MMM-Block - adjusts the height of the two bottom modules so they line up

Page 3 - Home Automation
MMM-Rest - several instances; grabs info from my home automation server
MMM-NestRemoteThermostat
MMM-GoogleMaps-Tracking - updated via python script
MMM-Block - to move modules around so they line up

Page 4 - Sports
MMM-MyScoreboard
MMM-MyStandings - multiple instances
MMM-PGA

Page 5 - Info
MMM-SimpleLogo - a logo from our school
MMM-LINQConnectCalendar
MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu
MMM-JsonTable - displays gas prices via a python script
MMM-Pinfo
MMM-Block - multiple instances to adjust things so they line up

The Future
Adding touchscreen capabilities? This seems like a pain that would ruin the aesthetics, but maybe.

[KristjanESPERANTO]

Really nice! Thanks for sharing and the description with details about the modules! 👏

[plainbroke]

@dathbe
Cool setup.
Under page 5 you have the json table setup for gas prices.
Can you share the url for the gas prices you use?

[dathbe]

@plainbroke It’s a custom python script, and it has broken since I created this post. Working on a plan B.

[Lmagenis]

This looks great! How did you get only the lunch menus to show?

[dathbe]

@Lmagenis custom CSS:

/* MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu CSS */

.MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu {
  max-width: 500px;
}

.MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu .meal-list {
  margin-block-start: unset;
}

.MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu li {
  font-size: var(--font-size-small);
}

.MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu ul {
  padding-inline-start: 0;
}

.MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu .large {
  color: #f8dd70;
  line-height: unset;
}

.MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu .meal-title,
.MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu .breakfast-description {
  display: none;
}

The last entry is the key to what you’re asking.

[dathbe]

@Lmagenis Looking again, it appears that my tweak to the module to add the ‘.breakfast-description’ class was never merged. I’m on my own fork of the module:

https://github.com/dathbe/MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu/tree/combined

(Note that it’s the “combined” branch not the default branch.)

You can see the various tweaks I’ve made to my fork here:

https://github.com/evanhsu/MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu/pulls

[Lmagenis]

@dathbe Thank you! I’m still learning all of this. I appreciate your help!

[trnitz]

@Lmagenis said in Family Mirror:

This looks great! How did you get only the lunch menus to show?

There is also the ‘hideEmptyMeals’ boolean in the config, which is set to false by default.

Setting that to true, while also setting ‘recipeCategoriesToInclude’ to ‘Lunch’ (or ‘Lunch Entree’ in my case) will not display empty meals.

Example config section:

  {
    module: "MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu",
    position: "bottom_left",
    header: "Namaqua Elementary menu",
    config: {
        size: 'x-small', // Optional: 'small', 'medium', 'large'; Default: 'medium'
        todayClass: 'x-small',
        hideEmptyDays: true,
        hideEmptyMeals: true,
        buildingId: 'edf06a3e-65f3-ee11-a85d-f8b9c75e31xx',
        districtId: '931753cd-1e95-ee11-b902-959a1bfff3xx',
        updateIntervalMs: 3600000, // Optional: Milliseconds between updates; Default: 3600000 (1 hour)
        numberOfDaysToDisplay: 2, // Optional: 0 - 5; Default: 3
        recipeCategoriesToInclude: [
            "Lunch Entree",
        ],
        debug: false
    },
},

[Lmagenis]

@trnitz Thank you, that’s what mine looks like but it returns everything offered for lunch that day, right down to the condiments.