This Day in History ticker?

[donutsoup]

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?

[ninjabreadman]

@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.

[donutsoup]

@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?

[yawns]

@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 :)

[donutsoup]

@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:

[donutsoup]

@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.

[cowboysdude]

Just write a module.

[cowboysdude]

@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. :)

[yawns]

@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

[cowboysdude]

@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!

[ninjabreadman]

@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.

[cowboysdude]

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

[ninjabreadman]

@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.

[cowboysdude]

@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. :)