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