[Remote-Control] Shutdown, Configure and Update your MagicMirror

cowboysdude

Yeah but if you make the changes to the config.js it takes all the fun out learning for people who really want to… I’m not programmer and this would be WAY above my head but I do enjoy tinkering with things… I realize that in the end a total package would push the mirror into more people’s lap though… progress and this would be just a natural progression of things.

You guys that do this stuff are truly amazing and those of us who can’t Thank you!

Mr.Meeseeks

It’s the MAGIC MIRRORS TO THE MASSES MOVEMENT!! M⁴!

Jopyth

Work in progress:

Config is not yet saved and adding a new module is not yet supported, but the rest is mostly ready.

PaulB

@Jopyth

This is an awesome module. Thanks for creating :)

I tried to download it via “sudo apt-get install https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control”
but nevertheless I get the following notice:

E: Unable to locate package https
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘https://github.com/Jopyth’

I hope you have a tip, how I can solve this :)

Kind regards,
Paul

strawberry 3.141

@PaulB as the install instruction says git clone https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control.git

https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control#installation

PaulB

@strawberry-3.141 as always… thanks a lot :)

If you still have the nerves to answer just one more question :) I would like to how to use the html web script.
I ve searched the IP-Adress but nether the local IP nor the IP4 would work.

Do you have a betting guess which I should use?

Thanks a lot!

strawberry 3.141

@PaulB by default you should be able to access the remote by

http://raspberrypi:8080/remote.html

or run ifconfig to research your ip

then access it via

http://ip:8080/remote.html

Jopyth

@PaulB In addtition to what @strawberry-3.141 wrote, you can also set a position in the config, and it should display the URL on the mirror, for example like this:

{
    module: 'MMM-Remote-Control',
    header: 'Remote Control',
    position: 'bottom_right'
},

done

@Jopyth
This is a hardcore module from what I see here. Nice one!

Say, would “turn on monitor for x minutes” be a possible feature?
Like a sleep timer on the TV.

I come from an energy saving point of view and “turning on” is great but you know how we are. We always forget to turn things off.

Cheers
done

Jopyth

@done Thank you.

Yes this is certainly possible. Would it make sense to also make an option, which automatically switches off the screen at the start up then? So the “default” would be, that the screen is off, but you can switch it on for x Minutes?

done

@Jopyth I think I don’t understand the difference? :D
Or you’re talking about the default sleep time that is already set at start up of the pi?
So that, no matter what you do, you set a (default) timer of i. e. 15 minutes when the hdmi switches off.

PaulB

@strawberry-3-141 @Jopyth Thank you very much for your help.

My error was following one:

“https://192.168 …”

Now, I ve fixed it in “http://192.168 …”

–> It’s the small things that matter, I guess :D

Thanks a lot.
@Jopyth I love it :-) Well done!

rvdgeer

@Jopyth Amazing work so far!
Can’t wait for the ‘finished’ product (read: next major version).

compoti

The remote-control works really great, thank you very much for this module!

Mr.Meeseeks

Holy smokes @Jopyth you refactored a lot, it’s taking me some time to merge my changes in

Jopyth

@Mr.Meeseeks Even though I did not make that properly clear, but that was my intention, behind asking you to make the pull request early, sorry about that. :/ I can help with the merging, though, let me know.

@Jopyth said in MMM-Remote-Control:

@Mr.Meeseeks Also if you think you are at a stage where we can work together, feel free to make the pull request early, and I will have a look and see if I can help.

Otherwise I will concentrate on other stuff, which you have not already implemented.

Jopyth

If anyone is interested in helping to test the next major (and future) versions of the module, I am searching for beta testers. Please note that the version may still contain bugs, and thus involves an (unlikely) risk of your Raspberry Pi explo… I mean you having to fix some stuff from the command line and your config.js by yourself.

jdfraser

Thanks so much for creating this module! I have just set up my first magic mirror and started poking around with it. I am going to use my install as a photoframe.

I love the show / hide ability in your module especially being able to call it from other modules. When I get to playing around with voice control / face recognition I can see that this would be very useful.

I do have a request for this module though, it would be great if we could also control the ‘dim level’ of other modules as well as hiding them. I am specifically thinking of the Random photo module, I would like to be able to dim the currently displayed photo so that the other modules can been seen.

If you don’t oppose this added feature and could find the time to implement it I would very much appreciate it.

Cheers from Vancouver, Canada!

Mr.Meeseeks

@Jopyth would it be ok to add module specific functionality/backend only if that module was installed? Thoughts?

Jopyth

@Mr.Meeseeks What do you mean? Like offer alert sending in the menu only if an alert module is running? Are there any other things which depend on installed modules?