Sachin's Mirror

adamsidelsky

Which modules are you using?

Sachin

Apologies for the belated response, I’ve been traveling for work. Here’s a list of the modules…

All default modules (current weather, weather forecast, calendar, compliments, RSS Newsfeed, Traffic.)

3rd Party modules

PIR Sensor
Scrobbler
iCloud client (For birthday calendar)
Nest
Wunderlist (For ToDo’s)
System Temp

adamsidelsky

Sachin,

Thanks very much for the info, the mirror looks great. Would you be able to share a more clear image of the mirror screen and the source code? I would like to make something very similar. If not publicly, I can PM you my email address and such.

Regards,

-Adam

Wilco89

@Sachin where did you put the PIR sensor?

Sachin

@adamsidelsky Thanks. I’ll take a clearer picture tonight when I get home and post it.

Sachin

@adamsidelsky I can post the full image of the SD card somewhere I suppose? Part of the fun however is to play with the code.

Sachin

@Wilco89 It is in the bottom right hand corner. I’ll make sure to include it when I take a clearer picture tonight.

KirAsh4

@Sachin, use 'scrot' to take a screen shot of the display itself. 'scrot /home/pi/screenshot.png' will get you an image of the screen that you can then post here. (if you’re loged in remotely, you need to tell it which display to use: 'DISPLAY=:0 scrot /home/pi/screenshot.png')

As for the source code, you don’t have to post a full image, just the modules folder (assuming everything you have on there is in modules.) You can simply zip it up (you’d have to install zip first if you don’t already have it, 'sudo apt-get install zip'):

$ cd ~/MagicMirror
$ zip -9 -r modules.zip modules

Then you can post that 'modules.zip' file somewhere.

OR, alternatively, you can push your code up to a Github repository so others can download them selectively instead of grabbing the entire modules folder. It’s also easier to maintain your code that way.

Sachin

@KirAsh4 Thanks for the tips, I learn something new every day!

Sachin

@adamsidelsky

adamsidelsky

Sanchin,

Looks great! I’d love a copy of the code please and thank you.

Regards,

-Adam

Sachin

@adamsidelsky Thanks Adam, glad you like it. I’ll see if I can follow KirAsh’s directions can get something up on Github. I do need to strip my API key’s from the config files so you can plug in your own, otherwise you will be seeing my info :-)

I’ll post a link later today when I get a chance to pull it all together.

Sachin

amanzimdwini

@Sachin
I’d be interested in your config too - specifically making the compliments a different color / font size. Probably not that difficult, but I always find it easiest to “program by cannibalizing” :) What good is an idea if nobody steals it? Anyway, if you would post at clean-ed up version of your config, I’d appreciate it…

Looks great!

Wilco89

@amanzimdwini i think you also need the custom CSS

Sachin

Thanks everyone. Per KirAsh4’s suggestion. I’m going to upload a sanitized copy on Github. I’d still encourage everyone to read through the install docs so you know where/how to tweak it to your liking. I’ll try to get to it this weekend.

Have a great 4th!

KirAsh4

Changing any of the module’s color settings is done in the '~/MagicMirror/css/custom.css' file. This is assuming the author of the module wrapped the various elements in tags that you can refer to, which all of the default modules are. You can look at the 'main.css' file to get an idea of what the various tags are that you can use. I do not recommend changing anything in 'main.css', but rather override them in 'custom.css' instead.

Alternatively you can also look at the raw HTML generated through your browser’s console (just pulling up the page’s source won’t show the full HTML generated.)

amanzimdwini

@KirAsh4
THX. Will spend some happy time fiddling with all the stuff. “Wasted” 2 days on getting MM2 up on a brand-new Pi3, but the ‘wife-acceptance-factor’ is already awfully high :) Now I have to just customize it to the n-th degree…

KirAsh4

Nothing’s ever “wasted”. You learned a lot during that time … educational enrichment. :)

amanzimdwini

@KirAsh4
Now I have question that is probably painfully obvious to anyone but me (I’m an old physicist and drive around in SQL all day long – don’t ask; I have no idea about hardcoding CSS.)

IF I want to change the font of, say, the compliments,
THEN I poke around and see that part of compliments.js

    var compliment = document.createTextNode(complimentText);
    var wrapper = document.createElement("div");
    wrapper.className = "thin xlarge bright";

Cool: I could redefine, say, xlarge in my custom.css. But that seems a silly hack, and I’d mess up everything else that also uses xlarge. Not good. Much better to change the color of compliments only. How do I do that? Say I want

compliments
.color: #3CF
.font-size: 80px
.line-height: 80px
.font.family: "Ariel"

I suspect that this is very obvious how to change my custom.css, but you guys all seem helpful :)
Hey: I already figured out how to push things around on the screen to where I want them to be. Next, I have to stretch everything, since the fonts seem a bit compressed. Lots of fun. Ultimately I’ll write my own modules, I hope.

Thanks in advance!