[Remote-Control] Shutdown, Configure and Update your MagicMirror

rvdgeer

I did some suggestions (or feature requests as you wish) in the past and since they were all implemented (thanks!!!) it’s time for some more…

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to open up the magicmirror ‘homepage’ from your remote?

Sometimes when I enable/disable modules I would like to see the changes without having to actually go to the mirror to see the changes. So a simple shortcut on the remote to open the ‘homepage’ in a new tab would be great.

And how awesome would it be if this remote could be developed towards something like a GUI for the config.js?!
This means it needs to be part of the core, so it can read all (possible) parameters from each module and make them editable (with the availbale values/options) in a ‘remote config’ web gui.

Possible uses:

enable and disable modules (instead of hiding: very useful for your background Halloween video)
move modules from one region to another
change headers
change newsfeedurl or update api key
etc.

plumcraft

@Jopyth : Really great work for your remote control module !

Someone might already suggest that, but because i’m not sure, let’s see :

It would be nice to have on your remote control page, versions of the different modules and indicate if there is a new release for it.

I think the idea is not having an automatic upgrade mechanism for now.

What do you think ?

-Olivier

slickric

I experience an issue that I haven’t seen other people so sure I’ve done something wrong. When I load the remote on my phone, I get a whole list of options but none clickable :/ Remote top Remote bottom

Jopyth

@slickric What browser (version?) are you using? It seems the javascript is not loading correctly, so I probably made something which is not compatible with your browser. I will try to fix this as soon as possible.

Mr.Meeseeks

@plumcraft
I’m working on that feature now on my own dev, I’ve currently added ‘refresh page’ and ‘update magic mirror’ next is upgrading modules. Then hopefully adding and configuring modules.

slickric

@Jopyth safari on iOS 10. I’ve got an android tablet that I’ll try this morning to see if that’s the case. Thanks for the quick reply!

slickric

@Jopyth I get the same on chrome 54.0.2840.66 on iOS10 too :/

plumcraft

@Mr-Meeseeks : Perfect, thanks :)

Pbaan93

Trying to get the HIDE/SHOW working with postman.
http://192.168.2.2:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=<<module_name>>
What is the syntax? cant find it, sorry …

Jopyth

@Pbaan93 You have got the correct syntax, your only problem might be, that you need the correct identifier, which depends on your config.js. If your modules in your config.js look like this:

modules: [
    {
        module: 'calendar',
        header: 'Some calendar',
        position: 'top_right',
        config: {
            // not configured, just an example
        }
    },
    {
        module: 'clock',
        position: 'top_left'
    },
    {
        module: 'newsfeed',
        position: 'bottom_bar',
        config: {
            // not configured, just an example
        }
    },
]

You could use module_0_calendar, module_1_clock and module_2_newsfeed to hide each module (it is always module + the number of the module in your config, starting to count from 0 + the module name, all separated with underscores).

This is the internal identifier, and not simple to construct, but allows to have, for example multiple calendars, and you can hide one or the other.

Pbaan93

@Jopyth Thanks for the clear info! I will try this tonight.
I’m planning to make an app for ‘Homey’ so i can controll the mirror with my home automation system. With your app this will be possible, so thanks again!
For easy configuration in the homey app I need an extra API option: ‘list’, so the homey app knows all the modules with their status. Is this possible?

Jopyth

@slickric That is weird, my iPad is also running chrome 54.0.2840.66. I assume this also happens, when you access the remote URL from a desktop browser? Could you open the remote URL with developer console, and have a look at possible errors?

@Pbaan93 I can add this, yes. Do you think a simple JSON format would suffice?

Pbaan93

Yes that would be really nice!!! Just a list of modules with their status, preferably also their identyfier if that is possible. Thanks to this I can make the homey app completely adaptive to wat modules are installed on the mirror.

slickric

@Jopyth #facepalm as expected it was me that was the problem. Got the below errors in console which made me realise immediately that for some rediculous reason I changed the name of the folder from “MMM-Remote-Control” to just “remote”. Obviously it couldn’t find the CSS and js files because I changed the folder :/ renamed and all working perfectly. Great work with the module and massive thanks for the help! alt text

Jopyth

New version, please let me know if you find any bugs:

[1.0.0] - 2016-10-24

Added

Changelog
New buttons in user interface
- Hide/show all modules
- Link to MagicMirror² homepage
- Option to adapt brightness (making the mirror brighter than 100% can be limited to certain modules)
Contributing hints
Internal versioning of saved config (current version: 1)
Added action MODULE_DATA to return module data in JSON format

Changed

Internal timeout for commands increased from 5 to 8 seconds
Symbols for display on and off
Internal changes in preparation for Magic Mirror version 2.1.0

Pbaan93

@Jopyth That is really fast! Nice! Cool improvements ;)

Pbaan93

@Jopyth Nice update, tested it and it works like a charm.

You have shown me more ideas :P …
Is it possible to set position? Than we will almost have full controll!

gismo2006

@Jopyth Don’t worry, no more questions. ;-) I like only to say thank you :-)

rvdgeer

@Jopyth Thank you for the great update.
I see you have implemented some of my suggestions, which makes me very happy.

I still hope to see this evolve into a config GUI some day…

Jopyth

@rvdgeer This is the next big thing on my ToDo list. I don’t know when I will finish this though. If anyone has ideas on the workflow and the UI and how they would like to see and change the config in the UI, feel free to post here.