MMM-NewsFeedTicker Make Banner and Scrolling Text Smaller

[justjim1220]

@dgregory19
Sorry

within the headline: headline.className = "bold small bright"; ****
Change the size from what you have to small. I think I originally had it set to xlarge.

I am working on making this a bit easier.

Apologies!

[justjim1220]

@dgregory19

Ok, I’ve made some changes.

If you do a git pull && npm i it will give you a warning about the changes made to your js and css files
You can just delete those files, then do the git pull && npm i

OR, you can just delete your NewsFeedTicker directory and re-install it

[dgregory19]

@justjim1220 This is how my config looks now. I’m assuming that I need to add the, headline.className = “bold small bright”; ****

               {
                       disabled: false,
                       module: "MMM-NewsFeedTicker",
                       position: "bottom_bar",
                       //classes: "day_scheduler",
                       config: {
                           feeds: [
                       {
                                       title: "New York Times",
                                       url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
                                       encoding: "UTF-8", //ISO-8859-1
                                       className: "myClass",
                                       defaultLogo : ""
                       },
                       {
                                       title: "USA Today",
                                       url: "http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories",
                                       encoding: "UTF-8", //ISO-8859-1
                                       className: "myClass",
                                       defaultLogo : ""
                       },
                       {
                                       title: "BBC World News",
                                       url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#",
                                       encoding: "UTF-8", //ISO-8859-1
                                       className: "myClass",
                                       defaultLogo : ""
                       }
           ]
       }
   },

Thanks for helping me out with this!

[justjim1220]

@dgregory19

No, with the update it is no longer needed, when you do the git pull && npm i it should be fixed to the right size

[dgregory19]

@justjim1220 Deleted directory and did the git pull && npm. Now NewsFeedTicker isn’t working at all. It’s in config.js and looks just like it did before.

[dgregory19]

@justjim1220 Jim, nevermind. I got it working. Helps to put it in the modules directory. Looks great! Thanks for all your help. Now to see what else I can break. Need to learn more about how to program this stuff.

[justjim1220]

@dgregory19
Glad you figured it out! :slightly_smiling_face:

I have made that mistake many times, probably everyone has at some point I suppose. :winking_face:

[dgregory19]

@justjim1220 Quick question, would you know if there is a news feed for the Harvard Bussness Review?

[justjim1220]

@dgregory19
It looks like you have to be a subscriber to the site

[cowboysdude]

@dgregory19 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker Make Banner and Scrolling Text Smaller:

Harvard Bussness Review

Yes there is…it’s in xml format and it’s right here:

http://feeds.hbr.org/harvardbusiness

[justjim1220]

@cowboysdude
I found that also, and I could not get it to work
Further research showed you have to be a subscriber to receive the RSS feeds

[cowboysdude]

@justjim1220 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker Make Banner and Scrolling Text Smaller:

@cowboysdude
I found that also, and I could not get it to work
Further research showed you have to be a subscriber to receive the RSS feeds

Really because it seems to work fine for me…in the stock news reader…

[justjim1220]

@cowboysdude
Is this the link you used?
http://feeds.hbr.org/harvardbusiness

[cowboysdude]

What do you think? If it’s not working in your module then something is wrong with your module…

[cowboysdude]

@justjim1220 said in MMM-NewsFeedTicker Make Banner and Scrolling Text Smaller:

http://feeds.hbr.org/harvardbusiness

I literally in 15 minutes had this working… using an old module I wrote… no css but proof of concept…

[justjim1220]

@cowboysdude

Then there is something wrong with my module I guess

Apologies for the misinformation

I will look into it further

Thanks CBD for the follow-up

[justjim1220]

@dgregory19

Apologies for the misinformation regarding your question

Although this question seemed to be in regard to this certain module, apparently, it does not work for some reason within this module.

I will look further into this issue and see what would be the difference

Again, I am sorry I gave you incorrect information regarding the feed for HBR

[cowboysdude]

@dgregory19 Yes it will work. If you have any issues please let me know I’ll be happy to help.

[justjim1220]

@dgregory19

Yes, Talk to cowboysdude about this as he knows more about all this than I do

Yes, I realize that your question was asked in reference to the module I created and not to any other module

But apparently, even though it doesn’t work in my module, I am wrong to misinform you with the answer I gave you

No, I did not test it in any other module, because the question was regarding this module.

As I said, I will look into why it is not working in this module and I will let you know if I get it working.

Thanks for your interest and I do apologize for any inconveniences I may have caused anyone!

[cowboysdude]

Just a small gif to show it works :) SO … you can use either rss or xml … The stock newsfeed module will also do the same…