Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Preference Page
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Hello,
I would really like some kind of preference page where you can change your settings for the loaded modules or disable modules. Would be nice for example for the https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/169/image-galery/3 idea. Change the folders on the fly.
Benefit:- More flexible to customize for not so technical people
- Easy to change settings, without the thinking of forgetting a “)” etc.
What it would be nice ob being able to to:
- Activate / Deactivate modules
- Change the attributes of modules
- Restart the Mirror
- Restart just the server
- Change LAN / WLAN settings
What it would need:
- All available fields and settings for a module need to be set in the config even if there are empty or default be be recognized as fields maybe
I know it is a big request, but I think a lot of people would benefit of it. I am not a programmer myself but it is doable for even such a modular project, I think.
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It’s on @MichMich’s radar …
On my radar is the possibility to live a 37 hour day without having an psychotic episode.
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Thank you very much for the information. Any progress in sight?
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Not that I’m aware of. But then, @MichMich is always working on some aspect or another of the code, sometimes in complete secrecy, in a bunker deep underground and won’t tell us anything. He’ll just surprise all of us one day: “NEW RELEASE!”
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@strawberry-3-141 and I are working on a voice command module that includes default voice commands. Among the default ones, I plan to add changing mirror settings option that can be controlled through voice. It can include most of what you requested. Here’s a video showing the current progress.
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@ronny3050, please don’t cross-post your messages. Each category will reset and display at the top of the Recent page. Having the same thing posted multiple times will just become noise across all the categories.
A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?
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@KirAsh4 said in Preference Page:
@ronny3050, please don’t cross-post your messages. Each category will reset and display at the top of the Recent page. Having the same thing posted multiple times will just become noise across all the categories.
I apologize for that. Sorry for any inconvenience!
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@ronny3050 @KirAsh4 It’s relevant to the conversation though?
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Wow, that looks promising. Hopefully both will be implemented, page and your module. Great job !
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@Mitchfarino I thought that as well, hence I posted because I wanted to let OP know that I could incorporate this into the voice module and hear his thoughts on whether that will help.
Thank you @darkeagl105! As far as the page goes, from my side, I can show a settings page when activated using voice commands that will display the settings and can be changed. -
@darkeagl105 I like this idea, it would be great if it served it’s own page so you could access it from another device like your phone to set up the MM2.
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That is what I was thinking of.
For it a default module that always shows the IP you need to connect to.
But one thing after the other. -
On short term, I won’t be working on a preference section. This is because a lot of modules have an extremely complicated config setup, which would require a massive UI. (For example: an array containing objects containing various types). The amount of work that would go into this, would be unrealistic. I’d rather improve and extend the frontend possibilities.
I do want to work on improving the feedback when the config file is incorrect, though.
Also, I think learning a bit of JSON could never hurt anyone. And with MagicMirror I don’t aim on the absolute beginners. It’s a project for people to learn along the way. One of the things to learn is some basic javascript.
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I’d agree that the perefence/configuration page could get quite complicated, but if we design it in the modular extensible way so that module developers could modify and configure it by themselves specifically for their module requirements it might not take a lot of time…
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I think the “preference page” could be a module itself. So knock yourself out. As soon as it’s fully functional I can include it in the main repository. :)
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I am thinking that it should be a real web page accessible from the web browser.
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@alexyak … which can still be a module.
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@alexyak yeah, no problem. The MagicMirror has a built in webserver which can be used by the modules.
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Yep, I know :)
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