[MMM-JaST] Just another Stock Ticker (new: version 2.x)

doscas

@Jalibu
Hi, Just installed this. What a great addition to my MagicMirror. Congrats!

I’m running on top of a background with pictures and I would like to have the letters fading when disappearing on the horizontal mode (guess it could be the same for the vertical mode).
Instead of “seeing” an invisible line where all the letters just disappear, I believe a little fade option would be a design touch that would elevate this module a lot.

I’m not sure I can achieve it with CSS only without damaging the view of the background picture.

Thank you.

ItsDonJ

I love the idea of that Ticker but sadly if i try to use it, i also only get an “Undefined” error message on my mirror. Any idea why so? For the moment i tried it with the BASF and SAP-Stocks like in the example.

Jalibu

@itsdonj
Please check your symbols. The “undefined” error comes when there are invalid symbols in your list

uros76

@Jalibu thanks for your continuos work on this module. It’s awesome and I use it on few MM deployments. Virtual beer sent your way :)

Perhaps you know, is there a way to pull a list of stocks into a config.js file, from a different file? I am no expert in JS but maybe there is a way to pull some of the config elements from a different file?

Jalibu

Hi @uros76,
thank you for the beer :-)
What do you mean with “different file”? Should that be a central/remote file which should be loaded over the internet from different mirrors or just another local file on the same system?

Prost!

uros76

@jalibu welcome :)

Preferably the other file with defined stocks would be on the same system.
I kind of get it how to make this work with python scripts but I have no clue if it’s possible with JS.

Jalibu

@uros76 either you prepare/autogenerate the config.js in a preflight with the stocks of your file before you start the mirror or I am afraid that it won’t work without programming efforts in the module.

Can you explain me the use case?

uros76

@jalibu I am making a small MM project, based on rpi 3 and a small screen. This will be used by my friends who are occasionally trading with crypto and stocks.

Rather than teaching them how to edit a list of monitored stocks in the config.js (which could lead to catastrophic failure) I would prefer them to edit an independent shared file with the list of stocks only. This way we avoid breaking the core MM system and have the flexibility to change the list of stocks daily if needed.

I like the idea of autogenerating the config file. Will have a look into it if I can do it with python script. If you come up with some other solution let me know.

Thanks again

Jalibu

@uros76 why don’t you use @sdetweil 's Config Edit Tool MMM-Config?
MMM-Jast has full support for it.

uros76

@jalibu I completely forgot about this one. I will disable the rest and just allow Jast module to be editable. This could also work, thanks