Earth globe

bibi

hi @LukeCodewalker,
thx for your feedback and help, it’s much appriciated :) i agree with the static image and your idea with Nasa is interesting. what i had in mind when i open this post was regarding this here what is your opinion about it?
greetings

gizzmo

I like the idea of having some sort of dynamic data representation of earth, but im not a big fan of the nasa data.
I like this model beter … Link

LukeCodewalker

@gizzmo this is also very interesting. It’s from the Himawari-8 satellite and almost live. there you could have very easily four different styles and you don’t need an api-key. I think your suggestions would be very complex to implement. What do you think about these pictures?

LukeCodewalker

So I made a small test here:
[card:LukeSkywalker92/MMM-Globe]

so I could easily make the image update every x minutes and make configs for image-size and image-style just by changing the image-path.

bibi

@LukeCodewalker wow that’s great! i will test it tonight :) noob question : is it ok to git clone your files anywhere or it should be located in MM modules folder?

LukeCodewalker

@bibi I think you have to clone it to the modules folder. otherwise MagicMirror won’t find it. Just do it the normal way.

LukeCodewalker

small preview =)

I’ll have to write a readme, then I’m done.
If you want to use a custom picture you just have to put your link in the config file and the module automatically uses this image.

LukeCodewalker

So here it is =)
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/986/mmm-globe

bibi

@LukeCodewalker wow! you made a great job here! thx alot for your time/work/involvment!

alexyak

@bibi this code utilizes WebGL which brings RPI to its knees. You can run the MM on a different more powerful hardware, though. As for the module, I have got a POC working on my dev box with a sample data.