Halloween mirror ghouls anyone?

Jopyth

Well we would need to change MMM-Podcast, to basically play the video always and then maybe show/hide this with MMM-Module-Scheduler.

Still a custom module might be better here, since we do not want to waste resources, by playing a hidden video all the time, maybe I have time to put something together this weekend.

rvdgeer

@Jopyth How about the helloworld module just to add the needed html tags to display video?
(Obviously just for testing purposes…)

Mitchfarino

@Jopyth www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs

McSorley

Link it up with a PIR sensor with some bluetooth speakers and you could give someone a nasty fright!!

Jopyth

@rvdgeer Good idea.

If anyone wants to see how this looks (with a gif it is pretty simple):

		{
			module: "helloworld",
			position: "fullscreen_below",
			config: {
				text: "<img src='https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DiscreteDenseCockroach-size_restricted.gif' alt='GIF test' style='position:absolute; top:100%; left:50%; transform: translate(-50%, -100%); width:100%;'>"
			}
		},

rvdgeer

I did sudo apt-get install omxplayer and included a video using <video> tags in the helloworld module.
It works great!

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jtyle6

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Mitchfarino

@Jopyth Have you had any luck with this mate?

I haven’t looked at it for a while, have had a few things going on so haven’t had chance

Jopyth

@Mitchfarino did not have the time for it. I will see if I get to it, when I get back from vacation in one week.

bhepler

I experimented with this a bit yesterday. Thanks to @rvdgeer for the hint and @Jopyth for the initial code to start.

I ripped a YouTube video to disk and uploaded it to my Pi, putting it in the vendor folder. Adding this to my config.js was surprisingly effective (the rotate 90 is due to the video being designed to be projected on a window):

{     module: "helloworld",
      position: "fullscreen_below",  
      config: {
                text: "<video src='vendor/halloween.mp4' autoplay loop style='transform:rotate(90deg); position:absolute; top:50%;left:30%; height:50%'></video>"
               }
 },

Mitchfarino

@bhepler ~~What video did you use?~~ Sorry I missed the link

How did you rip it from YouTube?

yawns

@Mitchfarino
check your chat ;)

Mitchfarino

@yawns Awesome, thank you!

Mitchfarino

@bhepler Is there a way to loop through a number of videos, rather than just the one on repeat?

bhepler

@Mitchfarino Presumably you can inject some scripting to define an array of video files and then call a function to play the next file in the array. If you call that function from the onended() event in the VIDEO tag you should be able to get 90% of the way there.

Mitchfarino

@bhepler Any idea how to do that?

bhepler

@Mitchfarino StackExchange had a pretty good start.

Based upon the fact that the text value includes the HTML tag

strawberry 3.141

@bhepler the problem is to get the script tag evaluated, when it gets inserted as text, i have a script that is working, but still stuck on the evaluation. It’s probably easier to just create a new module, than finding another hacky workaround

bhepler

@strawberry-3.141 You’re going to turn me into a Javascript developer with crazy talk like that.