Share your config.js right here....

cowboysdude

@lolobyte I would go as a shared script… that way people can pick out something that works for them without having to get the entire js file. :)

Fonfon

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Mykle1

@Fonfon said in Share your config.js right here....:

Great idea ! perhaps a photo code+photo ?

I’ve seen that there is some chatter lately about organizing, adding, combining, deleting some Categories and Sub-Categories on the forums by the administrators/moderators. I like the idea of having a place to post config.js files but it is my humble opinion (not that it matters) that the “Show Your Mirror” category isn’t the best place for that. As a once, and still current noob, I would never have considered looking in here for config help.

Take the category, CUSTOM CSS, for instance. That’s pretty obvious for the person looking for css help, if not Troubleshooting, in general. That’s just one example.

Again, in my humble opinion, it would be easier for people that are ready and willing to share their configs, and those people that are looking for examples of configs (with mirror picture showing the results) if there were a category similar to the CUSTOM CSS category. Perhaps, as @cowboysdude so aptly put it, a “Share Your Config” category.

I wish I would have seen such a category when I first joined the forum. It would have made a huge difference to have actually seen what a proper config looks like, and a picture of the outcome.

For what it’s worth, I’m going to make a request in the Discussion category.

Peace

slametps

So? Where to share the config.js?

Mykle1

@slametps said in Share your config.js right here....:

So? Where to share the config.js?

I don’t know. I guess anywhere you’re allowed to. I was just voicing my opinion. I posted a request in the General Discussion category with my idea. The administrators and moderators here are absolutely brilliant. I’m sure they will have even better ideas than mine. I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t already have their own ideas for something like this.

slametps

@Mykle1 agree with your opinion. require one place to share config.js, to quick learn about implementing MM rather than read more categories.

Jopyth

I think the general discussion forum is the best, until we create a “Show your configuration” section (we can move the topics later). Or if you bundle it with showing your mirror, you can do it in the showcase thread. But topics solely focused on sharing configuration should not be here.

cowboysdude

@Jopyth I think yes moving it to Showing your mirror would be an awesome place to put it!! Can you do it for us?

broberg

@cowboysdude The showing your mirror category should only be for each mirror made, not general sharing threads.
I think it will get confusing and cluttered if there is ANY other threads than project threads in there.

johnnyboy

Through the eyes of a newbie - I remember the very first time I saw the MM picture online, by pure accident, and clicking on numerous links that eventually brought me here.
Looking at the main forum page here, and seeing all the categories, the one and only category that I wanted to see first, was, Show your Mirror…

That was enough to convice me that I wanted to build one… so back to the Main Forum I went to see what is needed.

The only thread titles there that stood out was Hardware - Parts needed… then Modules - Software needed. Everything else, for me at least, could wait until I actually got the set up done.
Then, thats when Trouble shooting became 3rd on the list. And having to wok out the right question to ask to get the right answer needed… and quckly realising how frustrating it is work out what goes where and what keystroke to use/not use, and at what place exactly to put them, within the config.js etc…

I can only underline Mykle1’s point when he said above " I wish I would have seen such a category when I first joined the forum. It would have made a huge difference to have actually seen what a proper config looks like, and a picture of the outcome."

I’ve lost count of the number of times Ive had to search and jump in and out of numerous posts where I seen numerous helps given that shows entries to be made to config.js and some Ive simply forgot what post I seen them in, so end up asking the same question that was maybe answered several days earlier.

As an example… ( This is just a quick example that I randomly selected simply to point out how a newbie may like to see where to place the code given… as a whole, and in relation)

	module: 'clock',
		position: 'top_left',
		config: {
			displaySeconds: false,
			timezone: "America/New_York",
	                     }
      },

compared to

{
	module: 'MMM-Globe',
	position: 'bottom_center',
	config: {
	style: 'natColor',
	imageSize: 200,
	ownImagePath:'',
	updateInterval: 10*60*1000
}
},
{
	module: 'clock',
	timezone: 'America/New_York',
	position: 'top_center'
},
{
	module: 'calendar',

The latter shows me the exact position, and exactly what { } }, are needed/should be there … by seeing the whole picture I can see straight away if I have put in an extra } or }, or not.

Again, this is just what I, as a newbie, would have liked to have seen when getting help in this way, simply by seeing the soloution within the whole picture… It’s okay placing the first example when explaing to someone that has moved up a rung on the learning ladder and has already done this several times already, but through the eyes of a newbie, it’s a bit like Pinata (Mexican Donkey)

So yeah, I think having an aptly named thread, with Finished Mirrors, and attached files used, would be a great thing for a newbie to refer back to.