MMM-SimpleBGSlideshow (yet another background slideshow module)

[sdetweil]

@rs hm… the enoent means file not found

and it doesn’t use the full path… weird…

I don’t use that module myself.

[rs]

@sdetweil said in MMM-SimpleBGSlideshow (yet another background slideshow module):

@rs hm… the enoent means file not found

and it doesn’t use the full path… weird…

I don’t use that module myself.

it is what it is then :)
Thx anyways!

[sdetweil]

@rs I use this one,

https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-ImagesPhotos

modified from original

I don’t like my photos stretched etc…

also has color or blur fill around pic

uses only ONE source, ‘uploads’ folder in the module folder… I just symlink to another (my mounted server share) using the ln command

[rs]

@sdetweil, agree, this is the one i finally use, it updates the shown photos when the folder content changes, good enough for my current needs!

Cheers,
RS

[sdetweil]

@rs i also have a module that shows a qr code and lets users upload pics from their phone (to the images location)…

see
https://github.com/sdetweil/uploadPics

[robertybob]

@sdetweil I’ve just tried out this module and the Readme on your github needs editing to point the installation link (git clone) to your one, rather than the original Github link :) Also, could you update the example in the Readme to detail exactly how to correctly size images? e.g.

For percentage:

maxWidth:"50%",

or for pixel dimensions:

maxWidth:"50",

For novices like myself, it isn’t very clear :)

I can’t for the life of me get the module to respect the sizes that I specify, it’s always too big, goes off the screen and isn’t central (despite me not changing the default position)

{
	module: "MMM-ImagesPhotos",
	position: "middle_center",
	config: {
		opacity: 0.9,
		animationSpeed: 500,
		updateInterval: 11000,
		maxWidth:"50%",
		maxHeight:"70%",
		backgroundColor: 'grey',  // not used if fill is true
		fill: true,   // fill around image with blurred copy of image
		blur: 10,   // only used if fill is true
	}
},

[sdetweil]

@robertybob sorry, don’t know about sizes… I use it as full screen background

if u are looking at my repo, then u would clone from my repo.

generally when u fork a repo, its to contribute changes back, so, the original readme content should be unchanged, except for new parms.

[robertybob]

@sdetweil Ah ok, no worries. On your mirror, do you use the position ‘fullscreen_above’ rather than the default of ‘middle_center’ ?

[sdetweil]

@robertybob not above, below (behind all others)

{
	module: "MMM-ImagesPhotos",
	position: "fullscreen_below",
	config: {
		opacity: 0.9,
		animationSpeed: 0,
		updateInterval: 1* 60 * 1000,
		backgroundColor: 'grey',  // not used if fill is true
		fill: true,   // fill around image with blurred copy of image
		blur: 10,   // only used if fill is true
		path: "/pics",  // inside uploads
	}
},

[robertybob]

@sdetweil Thank you. I can’t get the module working with MMM-Pages.

This config doesn’t show any images:

{
module: ‘MMM-pages’,
config: {
modules: [

				["clock", "MMM-Tools", "MMM-WiFiPassword",
					"MMM-Fantasy-Premier-League",
					//"MMM-ImagesPhotos",
					"MMM-pihole-stats",
					//	"MMM-TweetsByTimelineOrList", 
					"MMM-CyanideHappiness",
					"uploadPics"
				],
			
			["clock", "MMM-Tools", "MMM-WiFiPassword",
					"MMM-Fantasy-Premier-League",
					"MMM-ImagesPhotos",
					"MMM-pihole-stats",
					//	"MMM-TweetsByTimelineOrList", 
					"MMM-CyanideHappiness",
					"uploadPics"
				],
			],
			//last page ^
			fixed: [],
			rotationTime: 2500,
		}
	},

but this does:

	{
		module: 'MMM-pages',
		config: {
			modules: [
			
				["clock", "MMM-Tools", "MMM-WiFiPassword",
					"MMM-Fantasy-Premier-League",
					"MMM-ImagesPhotos",
					"MMM-pihole-stats",
					//	"MMM-TweetsByTimelineOrList", 
					"MMM-CyanideHappiness",
					"uploadPics"
				],
			
			["clock", "MMM-Tools", "MMM-WiFiPassword",
					"MMM-Fantasy-Premier-League",
					"MMM-ImagesPhotos",
					"MMM-pihole-stats",
					//	"MMM-TweetsByTimelineOrList", 
					"MMM-CyanideHappiness",
					"uploadPics"
				],
			],
			//last page ^
			fixed: [],
			rotationTime: 2500,
		}
	},

and as you can see, all I am doing is commenting out the module on the first page. I want to be able to have one page where the photos aren’t displayed as it’s very hard to read the other modules…but it seems the module doesn’t allow that?

How can I help you figure out what is going on so that this can be corrected ?