MMM-NewsFeedTicker

[justjim1220]

@electros

do you still have the entries you put into the custom.css?

[justjim1220]

@electros

OK, you need to add the following to your custom.css file:

.navigation-menu {
    display: flex;
    align-items: stretch;
    position: absolute;
}

With the code I posted and this addition to the custom.css file, I was able to get this…

If you added any NewsFeedTicker code to your custom.css file, you need to remove it.

If you want the background color back to maroon, change the background: none; to background-color: maroon;

[electros]

@justjim1220
Finally it’s working now. Thank you very much:thumbs_up:

[electros]

Thank you very much for the help, but still I do not understand how you moved that red line down. I would be curious, can not get any position you want on the vertical for this module?

[justjim1220]

@electros

you should be able to place it in any of the regions,
it works best in the top_bar, middle_center, and bottom_bar for the 100% width

[Cr4z33]

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[Cr4z33]

@justjim1220 can you please help me setting a custom logo into

defaultLogo : ""

?

I’ve tried so far with several image formats and I’ve used both HTTP and HTTPS, but it still doesn’t load the logo… :thinking_face:

[justjim1220]

@cr4z33

what news site is it?

[Cr4z33]

@justjim1220 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

@cr4z33

what news site is it?

It’s

http://feeds.feedburner.com/SkyitTg24

and I would like to load

https://tg24.sky.it/static/images/lv/skytg24_logo_header.png

as default icon (also because I notice that ALL the news feeds I set don’t show the icon in the scrolling bar).

Last but not least is it normal that it uses almost 50% of the CPU load? :frowning_face_with_open_mouth:
I’ve got a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and a Samsung EVO Plus 32GB micro SD card.

[Mykle1]

@cr4z33 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

it normal that it uses almost 50% of the CPU load?

It sure is. The Pi struggles with that type of animation. I’m surprised it’s only 50%. You should monitor your CPU temp, as well.

[Cr4z33]

@mykle1 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

@cr4z33 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

it normal that it uses almost 50% of the CPU load?

It sure is. The Pi struggles with that type of animation. I’m surprised it’s only 50%. You should monitor your CPU temp, as well.

So it’s not a matter of not so fast SD card then right?

I am using a heatsink on it therefore the average temperature so far is between 50° Celsius and 60° Celsius.

[Mykle1]

@cr4z33 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

So it’s not a matter of not so fast SD card then right?

Well, it could be, but that’s unlikely. The CPU load issue has been around for some time and animations, especially marquee animations(scrolling) are the #1 culprit, or I miss my mark. Of course, if you used something more robust than a Pi that has a GPU you’d see a world of difference in the way MM performs.

[justjim1220]

@cr4z33

Apologies, I am working on the issue of using a custom logo if one doesn’t get pulled from the site.
Please stand by… :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

[justjim1220]

some found sports news that work for those interested…

http://www.espn.com/espn/news/story?page=rssinfo for all sports
http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/nfl/news for NFL

https://www.foxsports.com/rss-feeds for list of all sports
https://api.foxsports.com/v1/rss?partnerKey=zBaFxRyGKCfxBagJG9b8pqLyndmvo7UU&tag=nfl for NFL

https://www.cbssports.com/xml/rss for all sports
https://www.cbssports.com/rss/headlines/nfl/ for NFL

https://www.rotowire.com/rss/ for all sports
https://www.rotowire.com/rss/news.htm?sport=nfl for NFL

I also wanted to add that if you place the newsfeeds in the config, it also works better to place them in the js file as well. Not sure why, but I noticed that it does.
So, wanted to pass that on.

I am still working on getting a custom logo to show if one does not get pulled from the rss site.

[Cr4z33]

@Mykle1 thanks for clearing things out.

@justjim1220 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

some found sports news that work for those interested…

http://www.espn.com/espn/news/story?page=rssinfo for all sports
http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/nfl/news for NFL

https://www.foxsports.com/rss-feeds for list of all sports
https://api.foxsports.com/v1/rss?partnerKey=zBaFxRyGKCfxBagJG9b8pqLyndmvo7UU&tag=nfl for NFL

https://www.cbssports.com/xml/rss for all sports
https://www.cbssports.com/rss/headlines/nfl/ for NFL

https://www.rotowire.com/rss/ for all sports
https://www.rotowire.com/rss/news.htm?sport=nfl for NFL

I also wanted to add that if you place the newsfeeds in the config, it also works better to place them in the js file as well. Not sure why, but I noticed that it does.
So, wanted to pass that on.

I am still working on getting a custom logo to show if one does not get pulled from the rss site.

Take your time don’t worry. ;)

In the meantime I am going to try too to put everything into the NewsFeeds js and see how things work.

Update
I saw no improvements by inserting the feeds straight into the JS. :disappointed_face:

[Cr4z33]

Sorry @justjim1220 I noticed only now that you removed the newsfeed ticker background in your latest screenshots.

I would like to try that out and see if performance improves. :)
How do you do that?

[justjim1220]

@cr4z33

In the css file, just change background-color: maroon; to background: none;
can be done with the image as well, but that could make the image difficult to see.

[Cr4z33]

@justjim1220

OK, thanks.

Update:
When not using a background then overall performance improves! :thumbs_up_medium-light_skin_tone:

[Cr4z33]

Although I am using the UTF-8 encoding for ALL of my newsfeeds accented letters (i.e é, à, etc.) and currency symbols (i.e €) are not displayed properly.

Any idea why?

		{
			module: "MMM-NewsFeedTicker",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			disabled: false,
			//classes: "day_scheduler"
			config: {
			    feeds: [
					{
						title: "Hardware Upgrade",
						url: "https://feeds.hwupgrade.it/rss_hwup.xml",
						encoding: "UTF-8", //ISO-8859-1
						className: "myClass",
						defaultLogo : ""
					}
			    	    ]
				}
		    }

[justjim1220]

@cr4z33 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

you might have better luck using encoding: "ISO-8859-15" or encoding: "ISO-8859-9"
The latter one is supposed to work best with European characters