Trouble getting Background Image to Show

[ankonaskiff17]

I am trying to add a background image via @Piranha1605 BG Animation with CSS and while I have the colors changing, I can not get the background image to show.
background: url("/home/pi/MagicMirror/Backgrounds/IMG_0169.JPG");. I’ve tried various versions of the file location all with no success. I brought image over from my Windows laptop and the file name is same but is there an issue with it being in Caps? I also created folder Backgrounds to hold pictures but I’m stumped.

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 case doesn’t matter as long as it matches what the REAL name has.
note for a url u need

http:// - from a web server
// using MM web server, whose base is MagicMirror
http://localhost:8080/Backgrounds/IMG_0169.JPG

or file:// – direct from the file system
background: url(“file:///home/pi/MagicMirror/Backgrounds/IMG_0169.JPG”)
(note three /// two on the file://, and one on the root path)

you should be able to put each in a browser and get it to show (outside of MM), that proves the url is right

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil I’m more stumped now. The file name & location are good. If I hover over the url in your second example in VS Code it gives option to follow link and launches browser and loads picture just fine but no joy in MM.

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 ignore what other apps do… MM is primative

[ankonaskiff17]

@sdetweil I’m just saying that the file address is good as entered.
In main.css you have

html {
  cursor: none;
  overflow: hidden;
  background: var(--color-background);
  user-select: none;
  font-size: var(--font-size);
}

set for background. Is that causing issues? custom.css should override that, shouldn’t it?

[sdetweil]

@ankonaskiff17 where is your background set… body, there is an z-order too…

i use fullscreen_background position for my background images

if u look at the developer window elements tab to find your background, where is in the the css stack?

[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?