Module scheduling

[ChrisLaurie]

The ability to set a start and end time for a specific module to load. Also for components of modules (like calendars). Then I can have some calendars/weather active for certain parts of the day. This would then reduce the number of redundant api calls to information providers. If possible scheduling should be more complex: start date, end date, days of week, start time end time etc.

[yawns]

https://github.com/ianperrin/MMM-ModuleScheduler

[ChrisLaurie]

Looks like just what I want. Do you know if this is for the display part only or does it in fact stop the api calls for the info in the background when it is off?

[yawns]

@ChrisLaurie
Good question indeed. Maybe @ianperrin can enlighten us

[Labzz]

I’ve pretty much the same issue atm.

Alot of modules running on the background and that requires many CPU usage. Is it possible to start them only if they are required and asked after the facial recognition

[yawns]

The module readme for MagicMirror shows this:

suspend()

When a module is hidden (using the module.hide() method), the suspend() method will be called. By subclassing this method you can perform tasks like halting the update timers.

I am not sure if this was added with the newest update, but this should be added to modules to pause updates/requests.

[ianperrin]

As @yawns points out its down to the individual modules to implement/subclass the suspend and resume methods which in turn can be used to control when background activity is performed.

This has been around since MM 2.0, so ModuleScheduler doesn’t make any attempt to control the functionality of the modules other than show, hide, dim and send notifications.

Hope this helps