Replacing snow flakes with hearts in the MMM-SNOW module

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!

roramirez

@morozgrafix The other idea is create a module template like this where include this type, snow, new year, etc… in one module.

morozgrafix

@roramirez Yes you are right, I also thought about idea of general module that can be configured with various images or possibly have a schedule that will pick images from different folders and be hidden rest of the time.

cowboysdude

@morozgrafix That’s exactly what I was thinking…

roramirez

@cowboysdude If are there some people interesting in working on this I can help. Maybe a future check is possible integregate into the core.
cc @MichMich

Also, the MMM-ModuleScheduler seems to me too nice. I’ve not been have time to test yet.

Hein-Jan

@morozgrafix & @ianperrin

On scheduling and Cron Jobs.

To my regret the Schedule did not work out the way that had I planned it. My mirror did not show cute, drifting Valentine icons on Valentines Day. Some further experimentation today has shown that MMM-ModuleScheduler does not work with either an 02 or a 2 but does work with a “feb”.

cowboysdude

@roramirez said in Replacing snow flakes with hearts in the MMM-SNOW module:

@cowboysdude If are there some people interesting in working on this I can help. Maybe a future check is possible integregate into the core.
cc @MichMich

Also, the MMM-ModuleScheduler seems to me too nice. I’ve not been have time to test yet.

I love working on stuff but not confident enough to pull that off LOL I know php but just learning js so I’m just tinkering with small easy to create things for now.