Newsfeed Module Speed Help

nealffischer

Question: Is there a way to slow the display speed of the newsfeed module? (i.e. I’m not able to read and absorb an item fast enough before the next item appears.)

scumbelly

Look at the news feed configuration options. Start with

updateInterval How often do you want to display a new headline? (Milliseconds)

Possible values:1000 - 60000
Default value: 10000 (10 seconds)

nealffischer

@scumbelly Thank you. I didn’t understand that. I was thinking updateInterval was how often it looked for new content. This makes more sense now.

nealffischer

Okay, I changed the update interval, but I am still having a problem.

When the feeds display, I have a number of feeds I am pulling from. The module works but I get varied speeds and it isn’t consistent as to which article glitches. i.e. An article may do this once and not the next time.

I have the update interval set to 20000. That seems to be a good speed for me. Then, every other pass-through the system 3 or 4 articles will just fly through so quickly I can’t read them.

Any help would be appreciated.

{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "top_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "ELCA News",
						url: "https://www.elca.org/RSS/News"
					},
					{
						title: "ELCA World Hunger",
						url: "https://blogs.elca.org/worldhunger/feed/"
					},
					{
						title: "ELCA Administration Matters",
						url: "https://blogs.elca.org/adminmatters/feed/"
					},
					{
						title: "ELCA Lutheran Disaster Response",
						url: "https://blogs.elca.org/disasterresponse/feed/"
					},
					{
						title: "ELCA Living Lutheran",
						url: "https://www.livinglutheran.org/feed/"
					},
					{
						title: "South Carolina Synod",
						url: "https://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/13140288216647873894/13275359932109925288"
					},
					{
						title: "Bishop Ginny Aebischer",
						url: "https://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/13140288216647873894/14563665481092621252"
					},
					{
						title: "Lutheran World Federation Blog",
						url: "https://lutheranworld.org/feed/blog/all/rss.xml"
					},
					{
						title: "Lutheran World Federation News",
						url: "https://lutheranworld.org/feed/news/all/rss.xml"
					},
					{
						title: "LTSS Experiences",
						url: "https://www.lr.edu/rss.cfm?news=29"
					},
					{
						title: "LTSS Faculty",
						url: "https://www.lr.edu/rss.cfm?news=26"
					},
					{
						title: "LTSS Innovative Teaching",
						url: "https://www.lr.edu/rss.cfm?news=30"
					},
					{
						title: "LTSS Programs",
						url: "https://www.lr.edu/rss.cfm?news=28"
					},
					{
						title: "LTSS Landing Page News",
						url: "https://www.lr.edu/rss.cfm?news=40"
					},
					{
						title: "LSC Ted Goins Blog",
						url: "https://lscarolinas.net/news/ted-goins-blog/feed/"
					},
					{
						title: "LSC News",
						url: "https://lscarolinas.net/category/news/feed/"
					},
					{
						title: "Novusway News",
						url: "https://novusway.org/category/news/feed/"
					},
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true,
				showDescription: true,
				wrapDescription: true,
				truncDescription: true,
				lengthDescription: 400,
				broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
				broadcastNewsUpdates: true,
				ignoreOldItems: true,
				ignoreOlderThan: 1209600000,
				updateInterval: 20000,
			}
		},

sdetweil

@nealffischer there is a bug. fixed for next release October 1,

published in the develop branch

cd ~/MagicMirror
rm package-lock.json
git checkout develop
npm install