Trouble getting Background Image to Show

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil Right at the top just below html. The way I understand is that it will load html first, then body. My html is an abbreviated version of main.css html

custom.css

main.css

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 body supercedes
html.

u should look in the developers window, elements tab to see the actual css tree

ctrl-shift-i, select elements tab.

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil I’ve been doing that.

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 so u can turn off things with a click in front. so disable the background color

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil I’ve wrestled with this all morning and exhausted every combination I could imagine, I decided to try sticking a color in as shown below. Not sure if anything can be inferred if it will accept a background color but not a background image. I am ignorant of the vagaries of js but is it possible that background: var(--color-background); in is locking me i n to only color options since the default is set in

:root {
--background-color #000
}

body {
background: red;
}

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 possibly… disable it in the dev window… uncheck it… right side, near the bottom (that is closest to main.css while top is closest to latest css.

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 so I added a body with a background image, using the MM web server in my custom.css

body { 
  background-image: url("http://localhost:8090/modules/images/testimage.jpg")
}

and then started MM
and got

u can see the two body clauses on the right, top is custom.css (if u hover over the name it tells u where it came from)

[sdetweil]

then I added a root entry to custom.css

root: {
  background-color: black;
}

html {
/*  cursor: none; */
}

body { 
  background-image: url("http://localhost:8090/modules/images/testimage.jpg")
}

and got

notice border around pic

then turned it off in the dev window

border gone

[sdetweil]

same results with

root: {
  --background-color: black;
}

html {
/*  cursor: none; */
}

body { 
  background-image: url("http://localhost:8090/modules/images/testimage.jpg")
}

[sdetweil]

using file:// does NOT work

body { 
  background-image: url("file:///home/sam/MagicMirror/modules/images/testimage.jpg")
}

even tho it works in chrome

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil localhost is what shows in developer window? You show 8090 vs my 8080

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 localhost, cause I am on the same machine as MM is running

and port 8090 cause I have another app using 8080 …

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil I am getting a Not allowed to load local resource
I thought the image might have not been quite right so copied it fresh and did renaming in terminal but really sure what is going on.

I’m a dummy. I do think the image file was messed up as I was getting file not found errors before I reloaded & renamed file in terminal vs in the Pi version of file manager. Windows habits die hard.
After I did that I started getting the local resource message. I had been doing this through VNC on my laptop but pulled big screen tv over where I could read it, deleted the localhost address from file that I did in VNC and redid the exact same address via Pi directly and its all good now.
Shame on me but is there some rule of thumb about what you can and can’t do remotely. I have built 5 of these things with no issues using VNC until this background sreen issue. Even on this one, I’ve loaded multiple modules, jumbo sized fonts etc.

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17

where are u doing this? on pi, or remote(pc desktop)

what is the address: in config.js?

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil See my wordy edit above

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 address: and ipWhitelist are not in any of your posts above

i set address: my machine address 192.168.2.106
and it failed with a macthing URL

I still had ipWhitelist set as default, which prevented connect from other than localhost

changed to ipWhitelist:[]
and ip address url works and from a different machine…

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil So I need to put laptop IP in whitelist what I think I understand you to be saying

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 I always start with NO ipWhitelist… get it working then fix the filter

debug ONE thing at a time…

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil Wasn’t in vain. Thanks for the help. Image pretty washed out in photo but have some opacity and gradient and looks better in person.

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 Nice… I use an updated MMM-ImagesPhotos to show my photos from my server machine, images on an external 5tb drive.
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-ImagesPhotos

and I have a module that allows you to scan a QR from your phone and upload a pic to whatever storage area u want , then the image displayer can use it…

https://github.com/sdetweil/uploadPics