MMM-ModuleScheduler - Module Schedules and Notifications

Alvinger

@ianperrin @cowboysdude
Check out my new module MMM-tvservice in the System section of the forum. I took the idea from @ianperrin when he suggested a module to act on notifications.

ianperrin

@Alvinger interesting, I’ll check it out.

You may also be interested in taking a look at MMM-Remote-Control. It contains a heap of functions to control your mirror (including turning the monitor off and on, rebooting the pi, restarting the MM process etc) remotely.

I’ve been working with @Jopyth to expose this functionality via the use of sendNotification.

This should allow schedules like:

notification_schedule: [
    {notification: 'REMOTE_ACTION', schedule: '30 9 * * *', payload: {action: 'MONITOROFF'}},
    {notification: 'REMOTE_ACTION', schedule: '30 18 * * *', payload: {action: 'MONITORON'}}
]

Check out the repository on GitHub - the latest code includes this capability

Jopyth

@ianperrin The actions available are now also documented in the readme, so noone has to dig through all the code neccessarily. See this section, a table is down below.

Alvinger

@ianperrin @Jopyth: sorry, wasn’t aware that MMM-Remote-Control had that ability. I would recommend MMM-Remote-Control instead of MMM-tvservice to the general user as it covers all functionality needed.

MMM-tvservice is more for the linux enthusiast who wants a program to do one thing and one thing only. I am not running MagicMirror through PM2 but rather directly via systemd so I cannot use all functionality of MMM-Remote-Control without editing the source. Also, as I am running through systemd I do not need to prefix the commands with sudo as the service already runs as root.

MichMich

Very awesome work on this module! It might be interesting to look at the new show/hide mechanism: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/241/revising-the-show-hide-mechanism/9

MichMich

One other feature request:

It would be nice if there is a way to schedule a hide show based on a classname. This way I can give all my modules a class like “day” and “night”, and make a schedule:

 {
        module: 'MMM-ModuleScheduler',
        config: {
            visibility_schedule: [
                {classes: 'day', schedule: {from: '0 6 * * *', to: '0 22 * * *' }},
                {classes: 'night',  schedule: {from: '0 22 * * *', to: '0 6 * * *' }}
            ]
        }
},

ianperrin

@MichMich said in MMM-ModuleScheduler:

One other feature request:

It would be nice if there is a way to schedule a hide show based on a classname. This way I can give all my modules a class like “day” and “night”, and make a schedule:

Great idea. I was planning on adding a global module_schedule functionality, i.e. the ability to hide all modules at 10pm, rather than having to configure multiple schedules on a per-module basis.

I think the idea of class-based module groups makes for an interesting extension of the idea.

So to take your config example, if the global schedule definition includes the classes property, only those modules with that class are affected. If the global schedule definition omits the classes field then all modules are affected.

One for next week I suspect!

MichMich

An other small suggestion: delay all show effects with the a delay equal to the animation time. This way all Modules that will need to hide will nicely hide before any new modules fade in.

ianperrin

@MichMich - some great ideas, keep them coming.

I’ve created issues (or rather enhancements) for these on GitHub - https://github.com/ianperrin/MMM-ModuleScheduler/issues. Feel free to review, comment etc.

Mr.Meeseeks

Is it required to restart mm/server if a scheduler configuration is changed, add, removed?
Thanks