Euromillions display on MagicMirror

lavolp3

@thymon It is a good very good idea. Not for me but for people who play the lottery.

There is a free lottery API that supports lots of lotteries, including yours
magayo.com/lottery-docs/api/content/
That might be a good start I guess.

I’m happy to support but not sure if I can find time to write a module.

thymon

@lavolp3 thanks for you interest.
I have some time, but I’m not a developper :P :D

lavolp3

@thymon I put in some first thoughts on this.
The problem is for anyone who changes their own numbers, how to implement this.
This person would need to put the numbers into the config every time.

But still a great idea, especially for anyone having fixed numbers.

Already started a project :-)

thymon

@lavolp3 How does Gooogle get the info?

I found this : https://rapidapi.com/creativesolutions/api/euromillions

lavolp3

@thymon I tried out the magayo api and had the module near completion, and then found out magayo only takes 10 API calls PER MONTH in their free plan.
These are exhausted for me so I need to think about using another API or some dummy data.

I am quite far on a module, but I would prefer to include more lotteries than just euromillions. So if you could research for an API and provide one that covers more lotteries I’d be grateful.

thymon

@lavolp3
I found 10 request/month too :(

https://collectapi.com/api/chancegame/lottery-api

But there are 2 results per week for the Euro Millions.
:P

lavolp3

@thymon 10 requests/month is very difficult to manage.
You need to consider that every time the mirror gets restarted for whatever reason it will have forgotten the data and needs to send a new API request.
A nightmare for people debugging or developing something.

thymon

@lavolp3

Yes, I understand…

thgmirror

Why don’t you create a local html-page on the RPI and display it with MMM-SmartWebDisplay?

Look for a website with the requested information (for example lottoland)
in your local web-page, call this site and crop it to the part you need using iFrame
use MMM-SmartWebDisplay and link to the local html…in the config write url: [“/modules/millions.html”] if you place your local html in the modules folder

no api, no problem, works with nearly every webpage

lavolp3

@thgmirror
Of course that’s a solution. From my point of view however not a nice one. Styling is a mess and it also creates some work. And everyone wanting to use it would have the work.
With a proper module the community has less work and it can be integrated and styled much better.

For @thymon s purpose it works of course.