how to start an image slide show with a press of a button?

[cruunnerr]

@xela

Ah sorry… the MMM was missing. should be this:

http://your.raspberry.ip.address:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_0_MMM-ImageSlideshow

And

http://your.raspberry.ip.address:8080/remote?action=SHOW&module=module_0_MMM-ImageSlideshow

[xela]

works perfectly, thank you so much for your help!

and now to the ultimate question for me… Is it possible to start the camera on full screen by a press of a button?

[cruunnerr]

surely, but i don’t know what camera u mean^^

A security camera somewhere at your house or the RPi camera?

For security u could check this: https://github.com/shbatm/MMM-RTSPStream

for RPi cam u could check this: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/603/camera-module

[xela]

I use a Microsoft round web cam that I’ve embedded into the frame and I’m using the camera module however the voice recognition is not very good so I wanted to start it with a press of a button, but I don’t know how and how to display the video vertically on full screen.

[cruunnerr]

So you use the camera module i posted?

unfortunately i don’t use this module, so i am maybe the wrong person to ask…

But i took a look at the webcam.js of the module and in line 46/47 the width and hight is defined.
Maybe u should play around with that…
https://github.com/alexyak/camera/blob/master/webcam.js

nano MagicMirror/modules/camera/webcam.js

also check the camera.js at line 62/63…

nano MagicMirror/modules/camera/camera.js

I don’t know if it would be necessary to set the resolution of the cam within raspbian… ?

To start the cam with a button u can even use the MMM-Buttons module. This should work, if i understand the camera-module correct ^^

{
		    module: 'MMM-Buttons',
		    config: {
			maxShortPressTime: 1000,
		        buttons: [
		            {
		                pin: 15,
		                name: "camera",
		                shortPress: {
		                    notification: "SHOW_CAMERA",
                                         }
		             },
                                longPress: {
                                notification: "HIDE_CAMERA",
                                         },
		             },
		         ]
		     }
		},