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    • W Offline
      Woody
      last edited by Woody

      I’m very sorry that I want to use the MM as a Magic Picture Frame but that’s more interesting for me. Sorry to the innovator of this really enterprising project. My problem indeed is that the mentioned importent module MMM-RandomPhoto won’t run as expected.
      When I use an explicit link to the Image includig the image name it works but not as expected with a randomly selected Image.
      The reason may be that I couldn’t install ‘jquery’ with npm. The Error I suffer is:
      npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package.json’
      npm WARN !invalid#1 No description
      npm WARN !invalid#1 No repository field.
      npm WARN !invalid#1 No README data
      npm WARN !invalid#1 No license field.
      Has someone got it running or also seen this problem? Why can’t I install jquery on the last Jessie light distribution? Any help will be appreciated.
      Thank’s in advance… Jo

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      • strawberry 3.141S Offline
        strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Woody
        last edited by

        @Woody you are in the wrong directory /home/pi/package.json

        cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomPhoto
        npm install
        

        Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

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          Woody @strawberry 3.141
          last edited by

          @strawberry-3.141 thank’s for your fast replay strawberry. I tried this but also got an error.
          npm WARN magic-mirror-module-random-photo@1.0.0 No repository field.
          So I’m still stumped.

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          • W Offline
            Woody
            last edited by

            O.K. in the meantime I got it managed to install jquery by adjusting the related package.json
            Unfortunately MM still doesn’t show up a random picture as expected.
            Has someone maybe got it working and can give me a hint?

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            • cowboysdudeC Offline
              cowboysdude Module Developer @strawberry 3.141
              last edited by

              @strawberry-3.141 said in Problems with MMM-RandomPhoto:

              @Woody you are in the wrong directory /home/pi/package.json

              cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomPhoto
              npm install
              

              Yeah not running npm install gets me into trouble at times!!! :)

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              • strawberry 3.141S Offline
                strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Woody
                last edited by

                @Woody is there any output (errors) in logs or terminal or electron console, taht we can work with?

                Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

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                  Woody @strawberry 3.141
                  last edited by

                  @strawberry-3.141Hi strawberry, it seems I got it. The problem was, that I missunderstood the module describtion. I tought I can display images from ‘any’ URL and unsplash.it is just an example. So I tried all the time to load the images from my website without succes. At least I used the example and I got it confirmed - whenever you make it right, it will work.
                  Since I want to load my own images this module is useless for me.
                  so long…

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                    ZerkMen
                    last edited by

                    Hi @all
                    MMM-RandomPhoto is greatfull.
                    I have been looking for 2-way mirror and found nothing that was satisfaction. That’s why I MagicMirror rebuilt with MMM-RandomPhoto as a photo frame. With great result!

                    But I will show my own Photos. Git it a way to show own pictures instead unsplash?
                    So if you had a photo album with your own pictures??!

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                      fragator @ZerkMen
                      last edited by

                      @ZerkMen

                      Hi, did you find a solution to use the photos of our own album?
                      I have been searching for a few days without success

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                        jdfraser @fragator
                        last edited by

                        @fragator
                        I am also hoping to use the MM as a magic picture frame. I have started teaching myself node with thelearnyounode tutorials [https://github.com/workshopper/learnyounode]. I figured it’d be handy to know how to modify the picture frame to my needs. It’s been a long time since I’ve done any coding, but I think that this project is worth the time.

                        As a side note, I’m going to use an old laptop screen with a controller board from Ebay to show some photos from my NAS. I’m going add voice control and hope to add the functionality of ‘dimming’ the photos so the weather / calendar / etc. modules show up. I"m also thinking of writing an mpd module to control my multiple raspberry pi’s running forked-daapd.

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