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    lavolp3 Module Developer @Maximillium
    last edited by Oct 29, 2018, 8:40 AM

    @maximillium I did it like this but had to search for a while as well.

    You can put this in your custom.css and use whatever value you prefer

    .MMM-DailyDilbert #dilbert-content {
      width: 900px;
    }
    

    A tip if you’re interested:
    If you open the mirror in your browser (I’m using chrome mirror_ip:8080) and open the developer’s console with F12 you can see all the css involved (in the “styles” tab). Then you can right-click on the image and press “investigate” or whatever it’s called in english and you can see all the css affecting this picture. You can even toggle properties on/off live. Just discovered all the possibilites with this function working on this problem.

    How to troubleshoot modules
    MMM-soccer v2, MMM-AVStock

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      Loengard
      last edited by Feb 27, 2019, 5:59 PM

      Hi there - in the hope someone could point me in the right direction, any ideas on how to create a module for the daily Garfield comic?

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        lavolp3 Module Developer @Loengard
        last edited by Feb 28, 2019, 8:16 AM

        @loengard What you would need basically is a scraping function.
        One of my (too many) projects currently is to create a module like MMM-WebScraper.
        However, I think it should be possible to take MMM-DailyXKCD or MMM-DailyDilbert as a start. There is a scraper included somehow, haven’t looked at the code yet.

        Then you could change the basic url to the Garfield comic.

        I’ll check it out as well.

        How to troubleshoot modules
        MMM-soccer v2, MMM-AVStock

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          lavolp3 Module Developer @Loengard
          last edited by Feb 28, 2019, 1:49 PM

          @loengard Well it’s done. The changes were quite easy :-)
          Try it out, it is very rough and there are several things still called “Dilbert” :-).

          https://github.com/lavolp3/MMM-DailyDilbert

          I think it would make sense to eventually create a “ComicStrip” module and let the user choose between Dilbert, Garfield, xkcd and what else can be created. @kjb085 was already mentioning a website agnostic module.

          But I’d like to leave the decision to @andrecarlucci (or is it @kjb085?) and/or @Blastitt who have put much more work into it.

          How to troubleshoot modules
          MMM-soccer v2, MMM-AVStock

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            Loengard
            last edited by Mar 26, 2019, 4:05 PM

            I only saw your message now. Thank you so much!!

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              smackenzie5 @lavolp3
              last edited by May 29, 2019, 9:17 PM

              Thanks @lavolp3 - worked well.

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                surger13 Project Sponsor @lavolp3
                last edited by May 30, 2019, 10:41 AM

                @lavolp3
                i need help. i can’t get it to work. the screen stays black when the module is active. during installation i get the following message:

                pi@MagicMirrorPi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-ComicStrips $ npm install
                npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/package.json'
                npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/package.json'
                npm WARN modules No description
                npm WARN modules No repository field.
                npm WARN modules No README data
                npm WARN modules No license field.
                
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                  bhepler Module Developer
                  last edited by bhepler May 31, 2019, 3:23 AM May 31, 2019, 3:21 AM

                  It appears that the installation instructions on MMM-ComicStrips didn’t include everything from MMM-DailyDilbert. Try this instead:
                  npm install -p cheerio.

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                    surger13 Project Sponsor @bhepler
                    last edited by May 31, 2019, 6:37 AM

                    @bhepler
                    Thanks bhelper, that’s it.

                    In my opinion it would be a nice option for the module if you could select multiple comics to be displayed at selectable intervals, not just one as in the current version. I find it hard to choose one ;)

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                      lavolp3 Module Developer @surger13
                      last edited by Jun 3, 2019, 7:08 AM

                      @surger13 You know what? I have this nearly finished. Multiple comics to choose from, adjustable intervals etc etc.
                      It’s not easy however, since the comics have different sizes.
                      I’ll send a link for beta testing as soon as I’m finished.

                      How to troubleshoot modules
                      MMM-soccer v2, MMM-AVStock

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