MMM-NewsFeedTicker

[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

[Cr4z33]

@justjim1220
That did the trick thanks. :thumbs_up_medium-light_skin_tone:

[justjim1220]

@cr4z33

Yep! Always lad to help! :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: