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    • cowboysdudeC Offline
      cowboysdude Module Developer @broberg
      last edited by cowboysdude

      @broberg said in Creating a module to display daily horoscopes:

      @YoungHomie the newsfeed module is basically a rss reader, find a rss stream and past it in ad the url and it will be displayed as the news are being displayed

      That was my 1st thought however… I don’t think he wants to read all of them… and the newsfeed fades… so perhaps another simple module that allows the user to input what ‘sign’ they want to show… or in case of more than one in the house then allow for an ‘array’ of choices…

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      • morozgrafixM Offline
        morozgrafix Moderator
        last edited by morozgrafix

        I believe that OP already attempted to use newsfeed, but since it only displays title of the each newsfeed item and not the description he was getting something along the lines of Dec 20 Aquarius displayed on the screen.

        I’ve looked around and found a way to get Daily and Weekly feeds in JSON form and started to create a small prototype for the module. Will be happy to share it here once it is a bit more solidified and ready to be tested. (I never wrote a module from scratch, so it’s a good learning experience for me).

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        • morozgrafixM Offline
          morozgrafix Moderator
          last edited by morozgrafix

          Here is an initial draft of the styling (I’m testing in Chrome on my Mac at the moment, haven’t had time to throw it on RasPi yet). Feedback is welcome:

          0_1483338845023_Screen Shot 2017-01-01 at 10.33.44 PM.png

          0_1483339783461_Screen Shot 2017-01-01 at 10.49.13 PM.png

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          • cowboysdudeC Offline
            cowboysdude Module Developer @morozgrafix
            last edited by

            @morozgrafix said in Creating a module to display daily horoscopes:

            Here is an initial draft of the styling (I’m testing in Chrome on my Mac at the moment, haven’t had time to throw it on RasPi yet). Feedback is welcome:

            0_1483338845023_Screen Shot 2017-01-01 at 10.33.44 PM.png

            0_1483339783461_Screen Shot 2017-01-01 at 10.49.13 PM.png

            Love it! LOL I was in process of building just about the same thing… it may be a tad different but mine is about done too :)

            Nice to see members who can answering the call for those who can’t!! LOVE THIS PLACE!

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            • cowboysdudeC Offline
              cowboysdude Module Developer
              last edited by cowboysdude

              0_1483379145070_horo.JPG
              0_1483379226186_horo1.JPG

              Colors are wrong right now and needs a bit more styling but this was the one I’ve been working on…

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              • morozgrafixM Offline
                morozgrafix Moderator @cowboysdude
                last edited by

                @cowboysdude Very nice! What feed are you using for data? I found not very official way to consume API from https://www.yahoo.com/style/horoscope Don’t know if that source is any good, since I’m very clueless about horoscopes.

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                • morozgrafixM Offline
                  morozgrafix Moderator
                  last edited by

                  I’ve pushed my initial work for the module to GitHub. This is my very first MM module and I probably missed something obvious. Please get in touch with me if you have a suggestion or feature request (filing GH Issue is a great way to do it). Once I feel comfortable and possibly have some beta testers I will add a separate thread for this module. Thanks.

                  Repo is here: https://github.com/morozgrafix/MMM-horoscope

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                  • morozgrafixM Offline
                    morozgrafix Moderator
                    last edited by

                    This topic can probably be marked as “solved” - module thread is here https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1370/mmm-horoscope

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                      djbosman @morozgrafix
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                      @morozgrafix
                      Hi!
                      I am a rank NOOB who has just managed to get the Magic Mirror going.
                      I then tried to add the Horoscope Module , but it only displays: “Aligning Stars …”.

                      I have placed all the extracted files from Github , in the: /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-horoscope/ folder.

                      Then I edited the config.js to include:

                      },
                      {
                      module: ‘MMM-horoscope’,
                      position: ‘top_right’, // This can be any of the regions.
                      config: {
                      // See ‘Configuration options’ for additional options and more information.
                      sign: ‘aries’, // Zodiac sign
                      }
                      }

                      What else should I be doing?

                      I’ll be grateful for any help!

                      Danie Bosman

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                      • morozgrafixM Offline
                        morozgrafix Moderator @djbosman
                        last edited by morozgrafix

                        @djbosman Hi Danie,

                        In the code snippet that you’ve posted (it’s a good idea to use markdown for code snippets) it looks like you are possibly using “fancy quotes”. Make sure that your config.js file has these ' or " and not these ‘ or “ (it’s possible that they were only converted in your post on the forum and your config is ok). Additionally make sure you have a comma after last } bracket as shown below:

                        		{
                        			module: 'MMM-horoscope',
                        			position: 'top_right', // This can be any of the regions.
                        			config: {
                        				// See ‘Configuration options’ for additional options and more information.
                        				sign: 'aries', // Zodiac sign
                        				}
                        		},
                        

                        Also since this module is using node helper you may need to restart electron app for MM to pickup module helper for horoscopes.
                        You should see these lines in the console log when you do npm start:

                        Connecting socket for: MMM-horoscope
                        Starting NodeHelper for MMM-horoscopemodule.
                        

                        Hope this helps and thanks for trying out my module.

                        P.S. I just added instructions about restarting MM in the README

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