MMM-Carousel customizing (anyone available to help?)

mirror.master

so i love mmm-carousel with navigation. And i have been trying many ways to move the slides handsfree. I see that a notification can trigger the slides to move, and I have been trying to do that by sending a notification using mmm-remote to do so. MMM-remote allows us to send notifications and alerts. I was wondering if anyone knows a way you trigger the slides to move by doing that? So if i send a notification with mmm-remote like slide increment, it will move the slide, and the same for slide decrement and home. I have tried using code that onkelbobby used in mmm-carousel for his button to trigger slides using mmm-buttons. Below is the code

// Handle notifications sent from MMM-Buttons Module
       if (notification === "SLIDE_INCREMENT") {
           this.manualTransition(undefined, 1);
           this.restartTimer();
       }
       if (notification === "SLIDE_DECREMENT") {
           this.manualTransition(undefined, -1);
           this.restartTimer();
       }

i was hoping that i could use this as a base so when i send a notification using mmm-remote it would do the same. however it does not. Any idea guys?

mirror.master

oh my god! nevermind guys! i figured it out! I am so not on the level you guys are at and honestly im so shocked my experiment worked!

Mykle1

@mirror-master

Well done, figuring it out on your own. :thumbsup:

Why don’t you post your experiment and solution so that others might benefit from it? Just a thought.

mirror.master

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mirror.master

@mykle1
Thank you sir. its way too simple and embarassing to post but hey, and honestly i know the other folk can do it better and cleaner, im using this:

http://magicmirrorIP:remote.html?action=NOTIFICATION&notification=SLIDE_INCREMENT

so i never understood how the notification thing worked. the whole time Im thinking a literal notification. After getting it running through the browser, as opposed to my asinine and naive method (no comment) lol, i needed a way to implement this into my phone app that handles most of its controls. i went old school. and used a link to trigger. simple and effective. I can now control my mirror through my phone app via web interface and clicking.

cowboysdude

@mirror-master said in MMM-Carousel customizing (anyone available to help?):

http://magicmirrorIP:r

Here’s a really good read by @Sean … :)

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4434/how-do-notifications-work

mirror.master

@cowboysdude a great read! I understand how the notifications work as of the day when i posted. (Took me forever lol) Now im trying to trigger the music player with the same technique. I plan on posting the app i put together to control most of my mirror. Thank you

Mykle1

@mirror-master

In its simplest form, you can trigger your player with the reception of the notification within your module:

notificationReceived: function(notification, payload) {
        if (notification === 'SLIDE_INCREMENT') {
            this.trigger.your.player();
        }

A Former User

I made MMM-NotificationTrigger for that purpose.
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-NotificationTrigger

mirror.master

@sean i know broski! im not as advanced as you guys. Honestly just needed a way to move stuff. I could never get the hang of notification trigger module in full.

mirror.master

@mykle1 yes sir, i have some stuff i found in the code that triggers the mm-music-player. Gotta test it later.