MMM-NewsFeedTicker

justjim1220

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

Cr4z33

@justjim1220 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

@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 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

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

Have a good recovery and thanks for the update. ;)

Cr4z33

@justjim1220 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker:

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

Got an error:

~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NewsFeedTicker $ git pull && npm install
remote: Enumerating objects: 7, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Da https://github.com/justjim1220/MMM-NewsFeedTicker
   5895a96..eed535d  master     -> origin/master
Aggiornamento di 5895a96..eed535d
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
	MMM-NewsFeedTicker.css
Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
Aborting

Cr4z33

@justjim1220 althought I know ZERO about developing, JSON, CSS & Co. I was doing a quick search on Google about scrolling text stuttering in Electron on slow devices and I found out a suggestion at Stackoverflow.com that actually improved A LOT the overall perfomance of the newsfeed scrolling!

Go open /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NewsFeedTicker/MMM-NewsFeedTicker and replace

.MMM-NewsFeedTicker .tickerbody {
  position: relative;

with

.MMM-NewsFeedTicker .tickerbody {
  position: relative;
  transform: translateZ(0);
  backface-visibility: hidden;

You should notice now an improvement. :upside-down_face: