MMM-NewsFeedTicker

[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:

[cyberphox]

So is there a way to use this without the scrolling function to ease up on CPU usage?

[Cr4z33]

@cyberphox if you don’t want it to scroll then why don’t you use the default newsfeed module of MagicMirror? :thinking_face:

[cyberphox]

@cr4z33 I like the logo feature with multiple feeds

[Cr4z33]

@cyberphox oh OK.

[Cr4z33]

@justjim1220 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

I still got some wrong encodings from time to time, but doing a search it came out that Italian users have to use encoding: "ISO-8859-16" instead.

[justjim1220]

@cr4z33

To stop the marquee (scroll) put the following in your config file:

showMarquee: false,

[Cr4z33]

@justjim1220 maybe you were referring to @cyberphox ? :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

[Cr4z33]

Hi @justjim1220 any news about your next update? :)

[justjim1220]

@cr4z33

Nothing just yet, been a bit under the weather with the flu. Keep falling asleep or losing concentration.

I will keep trudging through. :winking_face:

[justjim1220]

If anyone is interested…

Adding the following will scroll the image with the article, but it will stop at the left while the rest of the article finishes scrolling:

@Keyframes marqueeImage {
0% {left: 100%;}
100% {left: 0;}
}

.MMM-NewsFeedTicker .image {
position: absolute;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-left: 0;
height: 100px;
z-index: 1;
background-color: rgb(175, 175, 175);
animation: marqueeImage 20s linear;
}

[justjim1220]

New Update —> please run a git pull && npm install within the NewsFeedTicker directory