Replacing snow flakes with hearts in the MMM-SNOW module

tamug1

I am just starting with my magic mirror, and have no programming experience, that I plan to give to my wife for valentines day. I have all of the standard modules working along with a few of the 3rd party modules (e-mail, remote control) working thanks to the awesome troubleshooting on this forum. I really like the idea of the snowflakes for the winter season and was wondering how one would go about switching to it displaying little hearts:). Any suggestions would be great!

morozgrafix

@tamug1 Here you go. It’s running a little sluggish on my RasPi 2 and I don’t have RasPi 3 hooked up. Please let me know how well it performs on your system.

[card:morozgrafix/MMM-Valentine]

Thanks.

morozgrafix

@tamug1 that’s a fun idea. I think it would be easy to modify this module https://github.com/MichMich/MMM-Snow to do hearts. If I have time later tonight I will try to do it.

cowboysdude

Something like this:

morozgrafix

@cowboysdude Yes exactly. Almost done with MMM-Valentine :heart:

morozgrafix

How is it his? There are 15 different Valentines themed icons and most of the code is shamelessly borrowed from MMM-Snow by @MichMich
0_1486097486590_upload-16416aa3-f2f1-4e99-b943-89cf8acac379

Going to get some dinner and push it up to GitHub

morozgrafix

@tamug1 Here you go. It’s running a little sluggish on my RasPi 2 and I don’t have RasPi 3 hooked up. Please let me know how well it performs on your system.

[card:morozgrafix/MMM-Valentine]

Thanks.

Hein-Jan

It is running a bit sluggish on my Pi3 as well. But I love it anyway!

Briljant.

Hein-Jan

Can it be combined with MMM-Scheduler to only (and automatically) show up on the 14th of Feb?

morozgrafix

@Hein-Jan not a bad idea. I can probably just hardcore that in and have a config setting that can enable it to only show on Feb 14th. One possible drawback of that is that module is still going to be loaded in memory other 364 days of the year.

tamug1

Wow that looks awesome. Thanks for taking time to put this together😎

schlachtkreuzer6

Fantastic! Nice work :) so i got an idea for march 17 … yeah ST. PATRICS DAY! :beer: falling clover, beer and goblins :D
http://www.flaticon.com/search?word=saint patrick&order_by=1&color=2

morozgrafix

@Hein-Jan reducing valenitnesCount may help with “sluggishness”.

morozgrafix

@schlachtkreuzer6 Feel free to fork my repo. It’s pretty easy to modify it to display other images. I resized my images to 50x50px because they were fairly hi res after downloading them from flaticon site.

schlachtkreuzer6

@morozgrafix I´ll try it :) but I´m not a coder^^ thanks for that advice

cowboysdude

@schlachtkreuzer6 Neither am I and I did in about 30 seconds… LOL You can do it!

schlachtkreuzer6

Yeah I did it :P
[card:schlachtkreuzer6/MMM-Saint-Patrick]

morozgrafix

@schlachtkreuzer6 nice job. I told you it wasn’t that hard. :clap: :thumbsup:

Hein-Jan

@morozgrafix

Yep, alreay did that.

This is my config included is the scheduling part.

{
                        module: 'MMM-Valentine',
                        position: 'fullscreen_above',
                        classes: 'scheduler',
                        config: {
                                // display the module only on the 14th of february
                                module_schedule: {from: '0 7 14 02 *', to: '30 23 14 02 *' },
                                valentinesCount: 25,
                                valentinesSize: 2.00,
                        }
                },

I have been struggling with the 2 asterixes behind the “minutes and hours” values but before the “day of the week” value. Cron revealed that they probably are “Day of the month” and “month of the year”.
I am a Noob, and all of the scheduling examples had wildcards there. I feel fairly confident this is going to work.

morozgrafix

@Hein-Jan I’m not very familiar with MMM-ModuleScheduler but I have some experience with cron jobs

It typically goes like this [minute] [hour] [day of the month] [month] [day of the week]

in your module_schedule: {from: '0 7 14 02 *', to: '30 23 14 02 *' } I would replace month number from 02 to 2 (allowed values for that field are 1 through 12). So it would read like module_schedule: {from: '0 7 14 2 *', to: '30 23 14 2 *' }

Your from value would translate to something like at 07:00am on 14th day of the month in February (it can be any day of the week) in human language

and your to value would read as at 11:30pm (or 23:30) on 14th day of the month in February (it can be any day of the week).

Hope this helps.

roramirez

@morozgrafix So cool!