News ticker module

[Kimzer]

Hi, been googling for a while now and cant seem to find anything.
Looking for a “News ticker” module. Something a bit more fancy than the stock news module.
Sliding in or ticking, either or. Both would be very nice looking.
Saw that @cowboysdude had a working one wich was very nice. But maybe someone have something they would like to share? Would be very much appreciated!

[justjim1220]

you could probably add a marquee script to the current newsfeed code…

[Kimzer]

Hmm, clever. Will look into that. have you tried something like it?

[justjim1220]

not yet, but was getting ready to…:smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

[justjim1220]

I have been working with this for 3 hours! I can’t get it to marquee using any type of code, I’ve tried several!!!

[Mykle1]

@justjim1220

As per your request through PM, here is an example of how to use one marquee effect

ok wait, it’s not displaying what I’ve entered. I’ll take a picture

[Mykle1]

Click on the picture and then click on the picture again in the new window so you can see it large enough. You can use this entire tag in your module.js file if you like. Simply replace WWI.currently.summary with the path to your data

[cowboysdude]

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you can just go here and download the module ;)

http://108.29.66.102:443/topic/42/mmm-ticknews

There’s a config in the config.example inside the zip file… enjoy.

[BUT make sure you dir is named MMM-Ticknews and not mmm-ticknews ;)]

[justjim1220]

@mykle1 Thanks, but the PM was regarding a completely different task, One that I’m trying actually create.

A playlist shuffle and random for YouTube … :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

[cowboysdude]

Youtube is a tough nut … I have a youtube module but it’s not random it shows a playlist and rotates through it…

[Mykle1]

@justjim1220

Then I would take a look at cowboysdude’ youtube module if I were you. He already did all the hard work.

[justjim1220]

@cowboysdude

yeah, I have that as well.

My playlist has close to 1600 videos in it.
To link it to the mirror or anywhere else other than playing on YT itself… There is a stack limit of 200 videos, AND, there isn’t a shuffle or randomizer available with the YouTube API documentation.

I was able to get one to work in HTML, My trouble from here on is getting to convert into a working MM module…

[Kimzer]

Using cowboysdude’s module and it does the job. Very nice looking etc.
But a couple of things i am hoping we can improve upon.

I would like to add a few more feeds to it, and also its kind of lagging a bit. Is there a way to improve that? Im no strong coder whatsoever so any help i could get would be very much appreciated.

[cowboysdude]

@kimzer Well we are QUITE limited by the Pi’s abilities or lack thereof… What can happen is looking for an NPM package that will get multiple providers…

That would have to be later… I am buried at work and currently working on NOAA3 which is taking all my free time…what little I have :)

[Mykle1]

@kimzer said in News ticker module:

I would like to add a few more feeds to it,

This is likely possible.

and also its kind of lagging a bit. Is there a way to improve that?

This question gets asked all the time. The Pi can only do so much. Use a more robust board.

[Kimzer]

I understand. I did manage to lower the cpu usage quite alot, by changing the gpu driver.
Cpu usage is at around 40% now. Wich is good and should probably improve the lag a bit.

But adding more feeds would be very nice. So if anyone could point me in the right direction for that id appreciate it, not asking you to do it all for me :p

[justjim1220]

@kimzer

example given on the newsfeed page…

{
		module: "newsfeed",
		position: "bottom_bar",	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in center regions.
		config: {
			// The config property is optional.
			// If no config is set, an example calendar is shown.
			// See 'Configuration options' for more information.

			feeds: [
				{
					title: "New York Times",
					url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
				},
				{
					title: "BBC",
					url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/news_front_page/rss.xml?edition=uk",
				},
			]
		}
	}