MMM-Globe

[ashishtank]

@foxy25 to make globe transparent there are two changes required.

• Module div’s background color
• Globe canvas itself have black color as background.

First one can be easily doable with css but to make globe transparent you will need to change the code as well. Do below to make globe transperent.

• In custom.css add below css

.globe
{
	background-color: unset;
}

• in modules\MMM-Globe\encom-globe.js file find below line and change it to.

from

this.renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer( { antialias: true } );

to

this.renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer( { antialias: true, alpha: true } );

---

below is output

Before

After

Let me know how/if it works for you.

[Foxy25]

It works perfect!!!

Thank you so much for you support!!!

Greetings from Germany

Foxy

[ashishtank]

@foxy25 you are welcome :)

[damith]

hi everyone, I’ve tried to install on my PI but it won’t work…am getting black screen, here is my config file… any HELP…?
modules: [

	{
		module: "alert",
	},
	{
		module: "updatenotification",
		position: "top_bar"
	},
	{
		module: "clock",
		position: "top_left"
	},
	{
		module: "calendar",
		header: "Italy Holidays",
		position: "top_left",
		config: {
			calendars: [
				{
					symbol: "calendar-check",
					url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/53/Italy_Holidays.ics"					}
			]
		}
	},
	{
		module: "compliments",
		position: "top_center"
	},
	{
		module: "weather",
		position: "top_right",
		config: {
			weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
			type: "current",
			location: "ROME",
			locationID: "3169070", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
			apiKey: "492da6299f48937482d3c321215289b0"
		}
	},
	{
		module: "weather",
		position: "top_right",
		header: "Weather Forecast",
		config: {
			weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
			type: "forecast",
			location: "ROME",
			locationID: "3169070", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
			apiKey: "492da6299f48937482d3c321215289b0"
		}
	},
	{
		module: "newsfeed",
		position: "bottom_bar",
		config: {
			feeds: [
				{
					title: "REPUBBLICA",
					url: "https://www.repubblica.it/rss/homepage/rss2.0.xml"
				}
			],
			showSourceTitle: true,
			showPublishDate: true,
			broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
			broadcastNewsUpdates: true
		}
	},
            {
	module: 'MMM-Globe',
	position: 'lower_third',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in lower_third
	config: {
            size:"x-small", // Globe size. See configuration options below for more options
			dayLength: 38, // (Optional) Rotation speed. See configuration options below
		    viewAngle: 15, // (Optional) Globe tilt. See configuration options below.
			introLinesDuration: 2000,
			receiveExternalLocations: 0,
            locations: [
                // Fill with location Objects if desired
                // e.g.
                   {lat:37.77493,lng:-122.41942, label: "San Francisco"},
                   {lat:-23.5475,lng:-46.63611, label: "Sao Paulo"}

                // Individual values must be seperated by a comma.
                // You can look up the latitude and longitude for a specific location on Google Maps.
                    ]
                    }
            },
]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== “undefined”) {module.exports = config;}

[thgmirror]

Hi @damith,

May be, you have an issue in the config.js.
You can use the built-in check-tool from within the MagicMirror folder named
npm run config:check

Or use an external Website (I use https://esprima.org/demo/validate.html) to see if it is valed.

Greetings from Germany
Thomas

[damith]

hi@thgmirror
Thank you very much for you reply, I’ve checked with built in check but no errors …!!

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

magicmirror@2.15.0 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
node js/check_config.js

[02.05.2021 12:20.01.503] [INFO] Checking file… /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
[02.05.2021 12:20.01.719] [INFO] Your configuration file doesn’t contain syntax errors :)
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

[sdetweil]

@damith did u do the npm install in the module folder after git clone?

if u look at the startup messages, where u start mm
npm start
or pm2 logs --lines=100

you might see a message, module not found.
this is the number 1 clue you didn’t do the npm install

[damith]

hi @sdetweil

Thank you very much for your reply… you are the NUMBER ONE… it works fine… Thanks again.

i have done NPM INSTALL… its worked fine…:face_savoring_food: :face_savoring_food:

[damith]

hi guys… my GLOBE is woking fine… but there is a problem with City NAMES, i won’t display…, config is ok… can anyone help me …?

{
module: ‘MMM-Globe’,
position: ‘lower_third’, // This can be any of the regions. Best results in lower_third
config: {
size:“x-large”, // Globe size. See configuration options below for more options
dayLength: 38, // (Optional) Rotation speed. See configuration options below
viewAngle: 15, // (Optional) Globe tilt. See configuration options below.
introLinesDuration: 2000,
receiveExternalLocations: 0,
locations: [
// Fill with location Objects if desired
// e.g.
{lat:37.77493,lng:-122.41942, label:“San Francisco”},
{lat:7.58403,lng:80.78798, label:“Sri Lanka”},
{lat:-23.5475,lng:-46.63611, label:“Sao Paulo”}

                // Individual values must be seperated by a comma.
                // You can look up the latitude and longitude for a specific location on Google Maps.
                    ]
                    }
            },
]

[Foxy25]

HI

here is my working config:

Greetings Torsten

{
		module: 'MMM-Globe',
		position: 'fullscreen_below',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in lower_third
		config: {
                size:"medium", // Globe size. See configuration options below for more options
                dayLength: 43, // (Optional) Rotation speed. See configuration options below
                viewAngle: 15, // (Optional) Globe tilt. See configuration options below.
                locations: [
                    // Fill with location Objects if desired
                    // e.g.
                    // {lat:37.77493,lng:-122.41942, label: "San Francisco"},
                    // {lat:-23.5475,lng:-46.63611, label: "Sao Paulo"}
                    // Individual values must be seperated by a comma. 
                    // You can look up the latitude and longitude for a specific location on Google Maps.

                    {lat:49.6294791,lng:7.8252699, label: "Rockenhausen" },
                    {lat:40.7223507,lng:-73.9901943, label: "New York" },
                    {lat:36.1047739,lng:-115.1421297, label: "Las Vegas" },
                    {lat:13.7544142,lng:100.5020575, label: "Bangkok" },

                ],
		},
	},

[hiro.nguyen]

Hi, may i ask if it is possible to change background to transparent ?
Thanks,

[greedyvegan]

in the beginning of this post from 2021, it was recommended NOT to use this with a raspberry pi
today, in 2024, I have a raspberry pi 5, does that matter? lol

anyway, the left is on my pi 5 and the right is viewing it on a browser on my computer

is there an update on a lite version?

[sdetweil]

@hiro-nguyen sure, css

google search css transparent background

[sdetweil]

@greedyvegan you will need to enable the gpu in the system boot.txt

AND

tell MagicMirror electron to use it

export ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU=1

in the script before

npm  start

if you used my script to install MagicMirror , that is ~/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh

[greedyvegan]

@sdetweil

like this?

I got this error
[PM2][ERROR] File ecosystem.config.js not found

[sdetweil]

@greedyvegan that pm2 error is usually caused by using sudo sometime when you shouldn’t

what happened before that? is that the first time w pm2

maybe

pm2 status
pm2 delete xxx
where xxx is the name or number on the MagicMirror line

then run my fixuppm2 script

pm2 seems fragile recently. not sure why

[greedyvegan]

@sdetweil

i accidently ran pm2 start instead of pm2 start mm
then it returned

[PM2][ERROR] File ecosystem.config.js not found

then i ran pm2 start mm
then it returned

[PM2][ERROR] Script not found: /home/thecastle/MagicMirror/mm

status

after pm2 delete 0

after pm2 save

update -
it’s currently running (it was always running, it just had a weird error)
and told me to copy/paste

sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

[sdetweil]

@greedyvegan yep, that’s why you run my script. lots of things to do

[greedyvegan]

@sdetweil

thank you very much!