Halloween mirror ghouls anyone?

BD0G

@Mykle1
This is so weird!
I installed MMM-EasyBack as per the instructions.
Copied a small Halloween Video in the MagicMirror/Modules/MMM-EasyBack/Videos folder. The file is named HalloweenMM.mp4. Its 15 MB. So pretty small.

Here are my config.js entries for the module.

{
    module: 'MMM-EasyBack',
    position: 'middle_center',
    config: {
       // bgName: "Example.jpg",   // "Example.jpg", the file name of your background image (case sensitive)
        videoName: "HalloweenMM.mp4",       // "baboon.mp4",         // file name of your local video
        height: "1920px",    // your display's resolution in pixels. Enter in config.js
        width: "1080px",     // your display's resolution in pixels. Enter in config.js
    }
},

I completely removed the section about Youtube ID , etc . When I launch the MM interface it contunually comes up with the YouTube Video by David Snow found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So3vH9FY2H4

There is no reference that I can find to that video at all.

The YouTube ID that is referenced by this video is the same one that was in the original configuration file.

sdetweil

@BD0G open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i on the mm keyboard, and select the console tab and then enter hall in the filter field

see if there are any errors (usually red text)

case matters

BD0G

@sdetweil Thanks Sam.

I went into the MMM-EasyBack.js file and altered it to reflect the video HalloweenMM.mp4 rather than within the config.js file. I also removedt the hard coded Youtube ID that was in the MMM-EasyBack.js file.

Now it plays the Halloween file , but I cannot control the sizing of the video and it takes up just about the entire screen.


Module.register("MMM-EasyBack", {

    defaults: {
        bgName: "",         // .jpg, .gif, .png, Full screen animated gifs too!
        videoName: "HalloweenMM.mp4",     // your local picture files go in "images" folder of MMM-EasyBack
        youTubeID: "",      // YouTube ID from the YouTube url
        height: "800px",   // your display's resolution in pixels. Enter in config.js
        width: "600px",    // your display's resolution in pixels. Enter in config.js
        animationSpeed: "0",
        updateInterval: 60 * 60 * 1000,
    },

sdetweil

@BD0G do not edit the source file

all config goes in the config.js

no idea on the youtube stuff, maybe its the default for a youtube search…

the author is not available currently.

BD0G

i am going to just modify the included MMM-EasyBack.css file to see if I can shrink it. Yeah that works.




.MMM-EasyBack .photo {
  width: 100%;               /* size the picture */
}

.MMM-EasyBack #video {
  width: 50%;
  height: 50%;
}

.MMM-EasyBack .iframe {
  margin-top: 50px;
        margin-bottom: 0px;
        margin-left: 50px;
        margin-right: 0px;
}

sdetweil

@BD0G don’t modify the css file

the system design is that css/custom.css will allow you to override any setting set by a module or the main.css file

so you put those entries in custom.css

all this no editing means the author can release updates and nothing u did is impacted

BD0G

@sdetweil said in Halloween mirror ghouls anyone?:

@BD0G don’t modify the css file

the system design is that css/custom.css will allow you to override any setting set by a module or the main.css file

so you put those entries in custom.css

all this no editing means the author can release updates and nothing u did is impacted

Gotcha!

BKeyport

@rvdgeer so what you’re saying is android sucks? 🤣

sdetweil

@BKeyport thats 6 years ago…

BKeyport

@sdetweil weird. The forum told me it was a few days ago, must be a ghost in the system.