<![CDATA[This Day in History ticker?]]>Hi folks,

I’ve found a handful of This Day in History modules and even RSS feeds, but they all show one fact per day. What I have in mind is a TDIH that’s like a news ticker. For example, if today were Feb. 23, then it would display “1836 - Battle of Alamo in Texas” and then four seconds later show “1887 - French Riviera hit by earthquake” and so on. Does such a thing already exist? If not, could someone help me code it?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6545/this-day-in-history-tickerRSS for NodeSat, 16 May 2026 17:36:40 GMTSat, 10 Feb 2018 23:22:43 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Fri, 16 Feb 2018 01:47:17 GMT]]>@ninjabreadman said in This Day in History ticker?:

@cowboysdude Agreed, I meant if @xela is looking to find code examples to construct a single module. Sorry if that wasn’t clear; best to keep in a single module.

That’s okay you guys can finish it… I’m super busy… it’s there and the data part is done and coming in. Someone wants to make a complete module please let me sign it over. :)

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35753https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35753Fri, 16 Feb 2018 01:47:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:35:03 GMT]]>@cowboysdude Agreed, I meant if @xela is looking to find code examples to construct a single module. Sorry if that wasn’t clear; best to keep in a single module.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35730https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35730Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:35:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Thu, 15 Feb 2018 03:05:50 GMT]]>Wouldn’t need another module to get the data it already comes in json format… just put the info in rotating fashion and you’d have a new module … ;)

I started it here… Long day I’ll work on it more tomorrow ;)

https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-TDH

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35729https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35729Thu, 15 Feb 2018 03:05:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:08:17 GMT]]>@donutsoup @cowboysdude That would make a slick module. You could cobble it together from various others, like MMM-json-feed to fetch your data and newsfeed to display it in discrete elements/items.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35728https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35728Thu, 15 Feb 2018 02:08:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:30:30 GMT]]>@yawns said in This Day in History ticker?:

@cowboysdude said in This Day in History ticker?:

I wouldn’t have a problem with that if it’s a config option. :)

That’s exactly what I submitted: https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-History/pulls

Then request accepted :) Thank you! It’s done!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35725https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35725Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:30:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:44:29 GMT]]>@cowboysdude said in This Day in History ticker?:

I wouldn’t have a problem with that if it’s a config option. :)

That’s exactly what I submitted: https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-History/pulls

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35692https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35692Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:44:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:06:08 GMT]]>@yawns said in This Day in History ticker?:

@donutsoup

You mean just showing an excerpt of the actual text? You could try to fiddle around with CSS using text-overflow: ellipsis; but this does not support multiline text. So it would be very ugly :) Besides that, this is not possible at this point.
Should be easy to implement something like maxLength: 200, to cut the text after 200 characters and to show a … at the end to indicate there is more text. I don’t see the use, as you cannot tap the … to see the whole text.

I submitted a Pull Request, let’s see if cowboysdude accepts my changes to his module :)

I wouldn’t have a problem with that if it’s a config option. :)

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35686https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35686Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:06:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:01:08 GMT]]>Just write a module.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35685https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35685Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:01:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:22:39 GMT]]>@yawns Ok I think I found what I’m looking for here: http://history.muffinlabs.com

Now how do I get it on my Magic Mirror? Again, Noob here.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35657https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35657Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:22:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Tue, 13 Feb 2018 05:59:03 GMT]]>@yawns Thank you! Solid suggestions. Yeah an excerpt would work. I just want less info on the screen at a time, and more of them. What I was envisioning is like what pops up when you type a date into Wikipedia (is that a faux pas? Noob here…). This was under the “Feb 12” entry: 0_1518501360438_Screen Shot 2018-02-12 at 11.53.57 PM.png

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35631https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35631Tue, 13 Feb 2018 05:59:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:24:34 GMT]]>@donutsoup

You mean just showing an excerpt of the actual text? You could try to fiddle around with CSS using text-overflow: ellipsis; but this does not support multiline text. So it would be very ugly :) Besides that, this is not possible at this point.
Should be easy to implement something like maxLength: 200, to cut the text after 200 characters and to show a … at the end to indicate there is more text. I don’t see the use, as you cannot tap the … to see the whole text.

I submitted a Pull Request, let’s see if cowboysdude accepts my changes to his module :)

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35599https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35599Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:24:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:43:14 GMT]]>@ninjabreadman Thank you! I wonder if there’s a way to make it display not quite so much info? Like just a little blurb before moving on to the next event on the day in question?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35597https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35597Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:43:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This Day in History ticker? on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:44:37 GMT]]>@donutsoup I think @cowboysdude’s module should do what you want: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1803/mmm-history/9

It’s a TDIH module that cycles through different years and their significance.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35482https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/35482Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:44:37 GMT