how to start an image slide show with a press of a button?

cruunnerr

hmm…

To start it hidden just open your remoteControl with http://YOUR.RASPBERRY.IP.ADDRESS:8080/remote.html
Go to “Edit view” and hide the module. Then press “SAVE”
Note: Every time you change your config u need to do this again ;)

so now to your button problem…

please try this:

open a browser on your pc and type:

http://YOUR.RASPBERRY.IP.ADDRESS:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_0_ImageSlideshow

http://YOUR.RASPBERRY.IP.ADDRESS:8080/remote?action=SHOW&module=module_0_ImageSlideshow

This should hide and show the module as these are the comments which the remote control is using.

If this works its probably a configuration problem with the PIN.

note that:

+-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 3---+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 | BCM | wPi |   Name  | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name    | wPi | BCM |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 |     |     |    3.3v |      |   |  1 || 2  |   |      | 5v      |     |     |
 |   2 |   8 |   SDA.1 |   IN | 1 |  3 || 4  |   |      | 5v      |     |     |
 |   3 |   9 |   SCL.1 |   IN | 1 |  5 || 6  |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   4 |   7 | GPIO. 7 |   IN | 1 |  7 || 8  | 0 | IN   | TxD     | 15  | 14  |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   |  9 || 10 | 1 | IN   | RxD     | 16  | 15  |
 |  17 |   0 | GPIO. 0 |  OUT | 0 | 11 || 12 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 1 | 1   | 18  |
 |  27 |   2 | GPIO. 2 |   IN | 0 | 13 || 14 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |  22 |   3 | GPIO. 3 |  OUT | 0 | 15 || 16 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 4 | 4   | 23  |
 |     |     |    3.3v |      |   | 17 || 18 | 0 | OUT  | GPIO. 5 | 5   | 24  |
 |  10 |  12 |    MOSI |   IN | 0 | 19 || 20 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   9 |  13 |    MISO |   IN | 0 | 21 || 22 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 6 | 6   | 25  |
 |  11 |  14 |    SCLK |   IN | 0 | 23 || 24 | 1 | IN   | CE0     | 10  | 8   |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   | 25 || 26 | 1 | IN   | CE1     | 11  | 7   |
 |   0 |  30 |   SDA.0 |   IN | 1 | 27 || 28 | 1 | IN   | SCL.0   | 31  | 1   |
 |   5 |  21 | GPIO.21 |   IN | 1 | 29 || 30 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   6 |  22 | GPIO.22 |   IN | 1 | 31 || 32 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.26 | 26  | 12  |
 |  13 |  23 | GPIO.23 |   IN | 0 | 33 || 34 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |  19 |  24 | GPIO.24 |   IN | 0 | 35 || 36 | 1 | OUT  | GPIO.27 | 27  | 16  |
 |  26 |  25 | GPIO.25 |   IN | 0 | 37 || 38 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.28 | 28  | 20  |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   | 39 || 40 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.29 | 29  | 21  |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 | BCM | wPi |   Name  | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name    | wPi | BCM |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 3---+---+------+---------+-----+-----+

Don’t know what type u are using (BCM, w-pi, physical ??)

In your config you wrote Pin: 18, but in your first post u said 15…

Maybe try another one. For example u could use GPIO 29, which is physically Pin 40, which is BCM Pin 21…

So in your config u must write, that u are using Pin 21!

xela

thank you so much for your help!

so, by going to the http://YOUR.RASPBERRY.IP.ADDRESS:8080/remote.html and hiding the module, it works fine. under “edit view” when i slide it to hide the slideshow goes off and when i’m sliding it to on the slideshow goes on.

however, both
http://YOUR.RASPBERRY.IP.ADDRESS:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_0_ImageSlideshow

http://YOUR.RASPBERRY.IP.ADDRESS:8080/remote?action=SHOW&module=module_0_ImageSlideshow
don’t work although I’m getting “success” message.

cruunnerr

@xela

Ah sorry… the MMM was missing. should be this:

http://your.raspberry.ip.address:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_0_MMM-ImageSlideshow

And

http://your.raspberry.ip.address:8080/remote?action=SHOW&module=module_0_MMM-ImageSlideshow

xela

works perfectly, thank you so much for your help!

and now to the ultimate question for me… Is it possible to start the camera on full screen by a press of a button?

cruunnerr

surely, but i don’t know what camera u mean^^

A security camera somewhere at your house or the RPi camera?

For security u could check this: https://github.com/shbatm/MMM-RTSPStream

for RPi cam u could check this: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/603/camera-module

xela

I use a Microsoft round web cam that I’ve embedded into the frame and I’m using the camera module however the voice recognition is not very good so I wanted to start it with a press of a button, but I don’t know how and how to display the video vertically on full screen.

cruunnerr

So you use the camera module i posted?

unfortunately i don’t use this module, so i am maybe the wrong person to ask…

But i took a look at the webcam.js of the module and in line 46/47 the width and hight is defined.
Maybe u should play around with that…
https://github.com/alexyak/camera/blob/master/webcam.js

nano MagicMirror/modules/camera/webcam.js

also check the camera.js at line 62/63…

nano MagicMirror/modules/camera/camera.js

I don’t know if it would be necessary to set the resolution of the cam within raspbian… ?

To start the cam with a button u can even use the MMM-Buttons module. This should work, if i understand the camera-module correct ^^

{
		    module: 'MMM-Buttons',
		    config: {
			maxShortPressTime: 1000,
		        buttons: [
		            {
		                pin: 15,
		                name: "camera",
		                shortPress: {
		                    notification: "SHOW_CAMERA",
                                         }
		             },
                                longPress: {
                                notification: "HIDE_CAMERA",
                                         },
		             },
		         ]
		     }
		},