MMM-MagicMover

C-son

Hi all!
I recently made my first MagicMirror² addon. I call it MMM-MagicMover, and prevents screen burn-in.
Installation and more information can be found here: https://github.com/Lavve/MMM-MagicMover

What it does is to randomly and smoothly move each section a couple of pixels up/down/left/right.

Suggestions for improvements are totally welcome. :)

Cr4z33

Hmm very usefull module here thanks.

It will come very handy once I’ve setup my daughter 24/7 smart mirror!

C-son

@Cr4z33 Thanks for feedback, and good luck with your daughters mirror :)

raymondjspigot

hi C-son thanks for your module, I’m just building and trying out my mirror and avoiding burn-in sounds like a great idea.

I’ve been slowly configuring my mirror and started using the module MMM-BackgroundSlideshow as well. I’m finding that if I enable MMM-MagicMover then my background images don’t show (I just get my Clock, Calendar modules etc. displaying on a black background). If I disable MMM-MagicMover then the background images from MMM-BackgroundSlideshow are displayed under my other modules ok like before.

Do you know if there’s a way to run both modules at the same time? I’ve experimented with changing the module position values in my config.js but it didn’t seem to help.

(My MMM-BackgroundSlideshow is in position: fullscreen_below incidentally)

thanks for any help anyway

C-son

@raymondjspigot thank you for your bug repport. I will try to find a solution for this.

BKeyport

Installed new version today, and now the middle column of items are pushed way right. don’t seem like anything is moving around either.

Anything I can do to fix it, or should I wait?

C-son

@BKeyport hard to say since I have no idea what other modules you’re using. It’s also hard to anticipate what and how other modules available for the Magic Mirror will affect Magic Mover. :)

BKeyport

@C-son Apparently, updates you did between my post and my capturing screen shots fixed it. It’s now working normally after another git pull.

Thanks!

C-son

@BKeyport awesome, thanks for getting back to me!

C-son

A new version of MMM-MagicMover is now released. Now you can add regions that shouldn’t be included, by adding them to an array:

{
  module: "MMM-MagicMover",
  config: {
    updateInterval: 60 * 1000,
    ignoredRegions: [],
    maxMove: 20,
  }
}

Valid regions are: '.region.top.bar', '.region.upper.third', '.region.middle.center', '.region.lower.third' and '.region.bottom.bar'.

mcaminiti

@c-son If I have a full screen background rotating from Bing or somewhere else, do you think that change is enough to prevent some burn in or would something like this still be helpful for clock, date and other things that maybe are always white and showing up.

Fairly new to MM and found this module which I think is great idea. I didnt know if this burn in was common?

C-son

@mcaminiti said in MMM-MagicMover:

@c-son If I have a full screen background rotating from Bing or somewhere else, do you think that change is enough to prevent some burn in or would something like this still be helpful for clock, date and other things that maybe are always white and showing up.

Hi @mcaminiti, yes, I believe this module will help to prevent screen burn in if you still have static text or images visible on the screen.

@mcaminiti said in MMM-MagicMover:

Fairly new to MM and found this module which I think is great idea.

Thank you! :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone:

@mcaminiti said in MMM-MagicMover:

I didnt know if this burn in was common?

Me neither. :) I just did this module to help those who might have this kind of issue. :)

botts85

@C-son what format should the ignoredRegion field be in?

I can’t seem to get it to ignore regions. I’m trying this, but it’s still moving my background:

                {
                        module: "MMM-MagicMover",
                                config: {
                                    updateInterval: 10 * 60 * 1000,
                                    ignoredRegions: ["fullscreen_below"],
                                    maxMove: 15,
                                    moveWholescreen: false,
                                }
                },

I tried it with:

ignoredRegions: [".region.top.bar"],

and still no luck.

sdetweil

@botts85 here is the defined terms for the ‘regions’
from the doc

rkorell

@botts85 said>

I tried it with:
ignoredRegions: [".region.top.bar"],
and still no luck.

@C-son stated in his posting the region with single quotes…
I‘m not really sure if this makes a difference - at least worth a trial…


 ignoredRegions: ['.region.top.bar'],

„Fullscreen_below“ BTW is not supported in ignoredRegions …

Good luck.
Regards,
Ralf