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

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.

rvdgeer

@Jopyth Sounds great!

If you want the all-in-one package:
I could imagine you need to be able crawl and index all installed modules and openup their modulename.js files to be able to determine what configurable parameters it has.
That way it should be possible to vreate buttons in the remote to add an installed module from a list and add and edit the parameters.

This might need a change in the core structure, because it would be nice to know what parameters per module are availble and what the possible values are…
(Like what’s posted on most of the modules github pages.)

And how about an option to drag and drop the order of the modules.

Another (slimmed down) way to go would be to just look at the current config and make al parameters editable in a form. Maybe create an option to add a new parameter and it’s value. The users should know the name and possible values for the parameter.

In the future you could even dream about an option to ‘git pull’ a module to update it from the gui. Or to ‘npm install’ the depencies. And maybe even download and install new modules that are availble online…
But that’s just me dreaming…

Mr.Meeseeks

@Jopyth I’ve added on mine ability to refresh browser, update mm and modules, and send alerts. I’ll probably work on installing and configuring modules next.
I’ll push merge soon

Jopyth

@Mr.Meeseeks Nice!

plumcraft

@Mr-Meeseeks

Looking forward your updates.

Jopyth

@Mr.Meeseeks Also if you think you are at a stage where we can work together, feel free to make the pull request early, and I will have a look and see if I can help.

Otherwise I will concentrate on other stuff, which you have not already implemented.

cowboysdude

Yeah but if you make the changes to the config.js it takes all the fun out learning for people who really want to… I’m not programmer and this would be WAY above my head but I do enjoy tinkering with things… I realize that in the end a total package would push the mirror into more people’s lap though… progress and this would be just a natural progression of things.

You guys that do this stuff are truly amazing and those of us who can’t Thank you!

Mr.Meeseeks

It’s the MAGIC MIRRORS TO THE MASSES MOVEMENT!! M⁴!

Jopyth

Work in progress:

Config is not yet saved and adding a new module is not yet supported, but the rest is mostly ready.

PaulB

@Jopyth

This is an awesome module. Thanks for creating :)

I tried to download it via “sudo apt-get install https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control”
but nevertheless I get the following notice:

E: Unable to locate package https
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘https://github.com/Jopyth’

I hope you have a tip, how I can solve this :)

Kind regards,
Paul

strawberry 3.141

@PaulB as the install instruction says git clone https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control.git

https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control#installation

PaulB

@strawberry-3.141 as always… thanks a lot :)

If you still have the nerves to answer just one more question :) I would like to how to use the html web script.
I ve searched the IP-Adress but nether the local IP nor the IP4 would work.

Do you have a betting guess which I should use?

Thanks a lot!

strawberry 3.141

@PaulB by default you should be able to access the remote by

http://raspberrypi:8080/remote.html

or run ifconfig to research your ip

then access it via

http://ip:8080/remote.html

Jopyth

@PaulB In addtition to what @strawberry-3.141 wrote, you can also set a position in the config, and it should display the URL on the mirror, for example like this:

{
    module: 'MMM-Remote-Control',
    header: 'Remote Control',
    position: 'bottom_right'
},

done

@Jopyth
This is a hardcore module from what I see here. Nice one!

Say, would “turn on monitor for x minutes” be a possible feature?
Like a sleep timer on the TV.

I come from an energy saving point of view and “turning on” is great but you know how we are. We always forget to turn things off.

Cheers
done