MMM-NewsFeedTicker

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:

justjim1220

@cr4z33

This error you got is just letting you know it can’t overwrite file within the module that you made any changes to
You have to rename the file or delete it or just remove it from the directory

Cr4z33

@justjim1220 OK I ran the update succesfully by deleting the CSS.

However I would like to revert to how it was looking before the update (static image on the left and smaller scrolling text). :grimacing_face:
How do I do that please?