Images & Videos

[zkab]

Some feedback …
Install gave this warnings:

pi@mirror:~/MagicMirror/modules $ npm install
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/package.json’
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/node_modules/node_helper/package.json’
npm WARN modules No description
npm WARN modules No repository field.
npm WARN modules No README data
npm WARN modules No license field.

Here is my config.js with your module :

module : ‘MMM-RandomBackground’,
position : ‘fullscreen_below’, // Any region but this one makes the most sense
config: {
animationSpeed: 2000,
updateInterval: 5000,
photoDirectories: ‘/nfs/MIRROR’
}

As you can see the photos are in a NFS share on my server.
What I got is a totally black screen …
Where have I missed ?

[Ultimatum22]

You are installing from the wrong directory, the installer is looking for package.json in your modules folder. You should be in home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground/

I just noticed my readme is wrong, after git clone you have to execute cd MMM-RandomBackground.

[zkab]

OK - now I got this …

$ npm install

magic-mirror-module-random-background@0.0.1 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground
./scripts/post-install.sh

Post install [in the future this creates a share to photos]
magic-mirror-module-random-background@0.0.1 /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground
├── jquery@2.2.4
└─┬ recursive-readdir@2.1.0
└─┬ minimatch@3.0.2
└─┬ brace-expansion@1.1.6
├── balanced-match@0.4.2
└── concat-map@0.0.1

npm WARN magic-mirror-module-random-background@0.0.1 No repository field.

But still I don’t get any picture from /nfs/MIRROR … hmmm

[Ultimatum22]

That looks good. Are you sure that the share is accesable? Try ls -al /nfs/MIRROR on the commandline of your mirror. Does it show any folders and/or photos?

[zkab]

Sure it is accessible - I just set up the nfs share myself.
All the images are listed when I give ls -la /nfs/MIRROR command …

$ ls -l /nfs/MIRROR/
total 748
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pi pi 157448 nov 16 13:18 IMG-20161116-WA0004.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pi pi 90988 nov 18 14:07 IMG-20161118-WA0004.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pi pi 188982 nov 25 13:30 IMG-20161125-WA0002.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pi pi 197352 dec 8 23:55 IMG-20161127-WA0023.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pi pi 117901 dec 14 12:01 IMG.jpg

[Ultimatum22]

My bad, I just realized that the photoDirectories config is not yet implemented. It only reads photo’s from the photos directory in the module itself. You could make a soft link from your share to /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground/photos.

[zkab]

OK - it worked … but it is a temporary solution
When are you going to implement photoDirectories config …

[zkab]

More feedback …
The config should also include ‘imageSize’
Now the image is full screen and it will hide other information on the screen (despite it is ‘fullscreen_below’)
It would be good to have it centered with a customized size …

[Ultimatum22]

Glad you got it working. I might add imageSize in the future, was ment to be a fullscreen photo gallery tho. Does it hide all your modules or just some? It doesn’t hide any modules at my end. I do see that the other modules are very hard to read with the light colors, I am in the progres of customizing that on my mirror.

[zkab]

Maybe I gave confusing information to you.
MMM-RandomBackground doesn’t hide any other modules … what I ment was that some text from other modules are hard to read (light text on light background)
‘imageSize’ would solve that problem for me at once
If you are going to dig in the code please prioritize this before ‘photoDirectories’ … that works OK as a temporay solution
Thanks …