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  • W Offline
    Woody
    last edited by Woody Oct 7, 2016, 7:18 PM Oct 7, 2016, 7:16 PM

    I’m very sorry that I want to use the MM as a Magic Picture Frame but that’s more interesting for me. Sorry to the innovator of this really enterprising project. My problem indeed is that the mentioned importent module MMM-RandomPhoto won’t run as expected.
    When I use an explicit link to the Image includig the image name it works but not as expected with a randomly selected Image.
    The reason may be that I couldn’t install ‘jquery’ with npm. The Error I suffer is:
    npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’
    npm WARN !invalid#1 No description
    npm WARN !invalid#1 No repository field.
    npm WARN !invalid#1 No README data
    npm WARN !invalid#1 No license field.
    Has someone got it running or also seen this problem? Why can’t I install jquery on the last Jessie light distribution? Any help will be appreciated.
    Thank’s in advance… Jo

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      strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Woody
      last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 7:39 PM

      @Woody you are in the wrong directory /home/pi/package.json

      cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomPhoto
      npm install
      

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

      W C 2 Replies Last reply Oct 7, 2016, 8:14 PM Reply Quote 1
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        Woody @strawberry 3.141
        last edited by Oct 7, 2016, 8:14 PM

        @strawberry-3.141 thank’s for your fast replay strawberry. I tried this but also got an error.
        npm WARN magic-mirror-module-random-photo@1.0.0 No repository field.
        So I’m still stumped.

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          Woody
          last edited by Oct 9, 2016, 4:31 PM

          O.K. in the meantime I got it managed to install jquery by adjusting the related package.json
          Unfortunately MM still doesn’t show up a random picture as expected.
          Has someone maybe got it working and can give me a hint?

          S 1 Reply Last reply Oct 9, 2016, 4:41 PM Reply Quote 0
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            cowboysdude Module Developer @strawberry 3.141
            last edited by Oct 9, 2016, 4:39 PM

            @strawberry-3.141 said in Problems with MMM-RandomPhoto:

            @Woody you are in the wrong directory /home/pi/package.json

            cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomPhoto
            npm install
            

            Yeah not running npm install gets me into trouble at times!!! :)

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              strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Woody
              last edited by Oct 9, 2016, 4:41 PM

              @Woody is there any output (errors) in logs or terminal or electron console, taht we can work with?

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

              W 1 Reply Last reply Oct 9, 2016, 8:20 PM Reply Quote 0
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                Woody @strawberry 3.141
                last edited by Oct 9, 2016, 8:20 PM

                @strawberry-3.141Hi strawberry, it seems I got it. The problem was, that I missunderstood the module describtion. I tought I can display images from ‘any’ URL and unsplash.it is just an example. So I tried all the time to load the images from my website without succes. At least I used the example and I got it confirmed - whenever you make it right, it will work.
                Since I want to load my own images this module is useless for me.
                so long…

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                  ZerkMen
                  last edited by Oct 16, 2016, 10:48 PM

                  Hi @all
                  MMM-RandomPhoto is greatfull.
                  I have been looking for 2-way mirror and found nothing that was satisfaction. That’s why I MagicMirror rebuilt with MMM-RandomPhoto as a photo frame. With great result!

                  But I will show my own Photos. Git it a way to show own pictures instead unsplash?
                  So if you had a photo album with your own pictures??!

                  F 1 Reply Last reply Nov 18, 2016, 8:17 PM Reply Quote 0
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                    fragator @ZerkMen
                    last edited by Nov 18, 2016, 8:17 PM

                    @ZerkMen

                    Hi, did you find a solution to use the photos of our own album?
                    I have been searching for a few days without success

                    J 1 Reply Last reply Nov 19, 2016, 2:36 AM Reply Quote 0
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                      jdfraser @fragator
                      last edited by Nov 19, 2016, 2:36 AM

                      @fragator
                      I am also hoping to use the MM as a magic picture frame. I have started teaching myself node with thelearnyounode tutorials [https://github.com/workshopper/learnyounode]. I figured it’d be handy to know how to modify the picture frame to my needs. It’s been a long time since I’ve done any coding, but I think that this project is worth the time.

                      As a side note, I’m going to use an old laptop screen with a controller board from Ebay to show some photos from my NAS. I’m going add voice control and hope to add the functionality of ‘dimming’ the photos so the weather / calendar / etc. modules show up. I"m also thinking of writing an mpd module to control my multiple raspberry pi’s running forked-daapd.

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