mmm Dad Jokes

[bhepler]

@bokow - Copy & paste your relevant config.js entry for MMM-Dad-Jokes here and we’ll take a quick look at it. Remember to use the markdown features of the board.

[bokow]

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
*

• By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
• MIT Licensed.
• For more information how you can configurate this file
• See https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#configuration

*/

var config = {
address: “localhost”, // Address to listen on, can be:
// - “localhost”, “127.0.0.1”, “::1” to listen on loopback interface
// - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
// - “”, “0.0.0.0”, “::” to listen on any interface
// Default, when address config is left out, is “localhost”
port: 8080,
ipWhitelist: [“127.0.0.1”, “::ffff:127.0.0.1”, “::1”], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
// or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
// [“127.0.0.1”, “::ffff:127.0.0.1”, “::1”, “::ffff:192.168.1.5”],
// or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
// [“127.0.0.1”, “::ffff:127.0.0.1”, “::1”, “::ffff:192.168.3.0/28”],

language: "en",
timeFormat: 24,
units: "metric",

modules: [
	{
		module: "alert",
	},
	{
		module: "updatenotification",
		position: "top_bar"
	},
	
	{
        module: 'MMM-icanhazdadjoke',
        position: 'bottom_right',
        config: {
            // See below for configurable options
        	}
    		},
	{	
		module: "clock",
		position: "top_left"
	},
	{
		module: "calendar",
		header: "US Holidays",
		position: "top_left",
		config: {
			calendars: [
				{
					symbol: "calendar-check",
					url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
				}
			]
		}
	},
	{
		module: "compliments",
		position: "lower_third"
	},
	{
		module: "currentweather",
		position: "top_right",
		config: {
			location: "Saginaw",
			locationID: "5007989",  //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/; unzip the gz file and find your city
			appid: "90f012418925c43d4ac4e54f147c53be"
		}
	},
	{
		module: "weatherforecast",
		position: "top_right",
		header: "Weather Forecast",
		config: {
			location: "Saginaw",
			locationID: "5007989",  //ID from https://openweathermap.org/city
			appid: "90f012418925c43d4ac4e54f147c53be"
		}
	},
	{
		module: "newsfeed",
		position: "bottom_bar",
		config: {
			feeds: [
				{
					title: "New York Times",
					url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
				}
			],
			showSourceTitle: true,
			showPublishDate: true
		}
	},
]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== “undefined”) {module.exports = config;}

[bokow]

Never mind got the Dad Jokes working by moving where the text was displayed to a blank area of the screen

[sdetweil]

@bokow could u edit your post with the config and add three backticks (shifted left of 1 key) on the 1st line, then config start on line 2, and 3 backticks on the last line by themselves…

[bokow]

All I had to do was place the location of the jokes to an unoccupied part of the screen. It now works as advertised but t his raises a new problem with the calendar module. The calendar shows nothing, even holidays. I guess my question is where does this app take the calendar info from??

[sdetweil]

@bokow this app??

from your google calendar or apple ical…

u have to configure the url to the calendar

[bokow]

what url and to what app?

[bhepler]

@bokow - First, please go edit your post with the config.js content and add the three back-ticks before the first line of the code and after the last line. That’s the markdown feature I was talking about.

Second, you will have to find the URL for your calendar in .ics format. Depending on what provider you are using, there will be different instructions on how to find it. A search for “export my calendar to ICS format” will get you pointed in the right direction.