MMM-SmartWebDisplay : display web contents (including YouTube) on your MM

[zjonesz]

Have the same problem as PeterH, does anyone have a fix?

[smassy]

@AgP42 said in MMM-SmartWebDisplay : display web contents (including YouTube) on your MM:

through notification by any other module

Hello,

First: Good job, module is very nice and easy to implement.

I have a little problem to understand how to change URL by notification from another module. I am using MMM-Assistant2 with a recipe but I’m not sure how to configure it. A little help would be greatly appreciated.

config.js:
{
module: ‘MMM-SmartWebDisplay’,
position: ‘bottom_left’, // This can be any of the regions.
config: {
// See ‘Configuration options’ for more information.
logDebug: false, //set to true to get detailed debug logs. To see them : “Ctrl+Shift+i”
height:“200px”, //hauteur du cadre en pixel ou %
width:“300px”, //largeur
updateInterval: 0, //in min. Set it to 0 for no refresh (for videos)
NextURLInterval: 0, //in min, set it to 0 not to have automatic URL change. If only 1 URL given, it will be updated
displayStateInfos: false, //to display if the module is on autoloop, or stop.
displayLastUpdate: true, //to display the last update of the URL
displayLastUpdateFormat: ‘ddd - HH:mm:ss’, //format of the date and time to display
url: [“https://www.youtube.com/embed/9xXww6Yyl34?list=PLa51J4RKCoTXCfr-qubj2FUgPADypF3Gk”], //source of the URL to be displayed
scrolling: “no” // allow scrolling or not. html 4 only
}
},

Recipe (playlist.js)
var recipe = {
transcriptionHook: {
“playlist_sylvain”: {
pattern: “liste sylvain”,
command: “playlist_1”
},
},
command: {
“playlist_1”: {
moduleExec: {
module: [“MMM-SmartWebDisplay”],
exec: (module, params, key) => {
module: ({url: [“http://www.google.com”]}) //test url
}
}
},
},
}
exports.recipe = recipe

What I am missing?

Thank you!

[AgP42]

Hello,

sorry guys not having answering before, I will try to answer all your questions now !

[AgP42]

@Zwirbel Great, thanks that you could confirm it’s works, thanks ! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:

[AgP42]

@Anthony : Yes absolutely ! Did you try it and can confirm it works fine ?

[AgP42]

@peterh and @zjonesz : Unfortunatelly I don’t know also how to solve it…

Maybe someone have a solution ?

(I have to admit that I am not using that module myself anymore…)

[AgP42]

@lukas1760 : Normaly yes, any html/css/javascript file can be executed.

Did you test to be able to confirm that it works ?

[AgP42]

@smassy

the configuration of MMM-SmartWebDisplay seams ok

I don’t know the module MMM-Assistant2, is it this one : https://github.com/eouia/MMM-AssistantMk2 ?
If not, can you send me the link on it’s documentation ?

To be able to send a new url to display to the MMM-SmartWebDisplay, the configuration has to be exactly like that :
{notification: “SWD_URL”, payload: {url:[“https://magicmirror.builders/”]}}
This line means : send to the system a “notification” (it is a MagicMirror mecanism) with the topic “SWD_URL” (so my module knows that this notification is for him), and then you have to send a “payload” (extra infos) with the URL you want to use.

Does that helps ? If yes please let us know the solution !

Bye,
AgP

[smassy]

@AgP42

Thank for answering! :-)

Yes the Assistant is https://github.com/eouia/MMM-AssistantMk2

I will test with your recommendation and let you know if I’m able to make it work.

See ya!

[smassy]

@AgP42

Good news, I was able to make it work thanks to you! But…there is a but… The youtube link with autoplay is not working :-(

This simple url
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JGwWNGJdvx8?autoplay=1

Will give you ‘video unavailable’ error, remove the autoplay tag and it will show (not play).

Trying to find out how to make it work and I will post my config as soon as I get the hang of it.

See ya!

[sdetweil]

@smassy are you on version 2.8.0?
We put a fix in for video not autoplay

[smassy]

@sdetweil

Ok I finally got that you were talking about magic mirror, yes it’s 2.8.0. But does it affect smartwebdisplay? I thought the module was independent.

[sdetweil]

@smassy well it’s MMM-smartwebdisplay, so I assume it’s a module for MagicMirror.

[smassy]

@sdetweil

Yes, I restarted my Pi and normal link is playing video now
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JGwWNGJdvx8?autoplay=1

~~My playlist is still not working
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0-rG98j2DWE?list=PLa51J4RKCoTXCfr-qubj2FUgPADypF3Gk?autoplay=1~~

scratch that it’s working!!! :-) something must needed a refresh in the services

[Chris62]

Hi

I am not able to get anything to display using my own url in this module. The default config urls work fine but not mine. I am trying to display a video feed from a D-Link camera using a url in this format - http://user:password@ipaddress:port/video/mjpg.cgi. This works fine from this camera when pasted into any web browser but not in my mirror. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

Chris.

[AgP42]

Hi @Chris62 ,

unfortunately it is not easy, this is due to safety mechanisms of iframes that prevent to send password…

Personally I just removed the password of my camera :face_screaming_in_fear:

But you can try some cleverer solutions, search google for “iframe password” or “iframe authentifaction” and you can try to get some clues.
Here is one answer that I found interesting : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15639280/basic-authentication-for-a-url-in-an-iframe

If you find a way, please let us know !
(and if it include some change on the code, I can also implement it, but so far I didn’t find any technical way…)

Good luck !

[AgP42]

@smassy said in MMM-SmartWebDisplay : display web contents (including YouTube) on your MM:

@sdetweil

Yes, I restarted my Pi and normal link is playing video now
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JGwWNGJdvx8?autoplay=1

~~My playlist is still not working
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0-rG98j2DWE?list=PLa51J4RKCoTXCfr-qubj2FUgPADypF3Gk?autoplay=1~~

scratch that it’s working!!! :-) something must needed a refresh in the services

Great !

Happy to read that ! Enjoy your wonderfull Mirror :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

[Chris62]

@AgP42

Hi

I don’t actually have a password set for the camera, it has been factory reset to the defaults which just gives a username admin and a blank password field. My url looks like this http://admin:@ipaddress:port/video/mjpg.cgi. Maybe this is the cause of the issue?

Chris.

[smassy]

@AgP42

Hello again, I’m trying to use the embeded calls “SWD_…” but there is something I’m not getting.

var recipe = {
  transcriptionHook: {
    "playlist_sylvain": {
      pattern: "liste sylvain",
      command: "playlist_1"
    },
    "playlist_lewis": {
      pattern: "liste lewis capaldi",
      command: "playlist_2"
    },
    "playlist_pause": {
      pattern: "arrêt lecture",
      command: "playlist_pause"
    },
    "playlist_play": {
      pattern: "démarre lecture",
      command: "playlist_play"
    },

  },
  command: {
     "playlist_1": {
             notificationExec: {
                     notification: "SWD_URL",
                     payload: {
                             url:["https://www.youtube.com/embed/0-rG98j2DWE?list=PLa51J4RKCoTXCfr-qubj2FUgPADypF3Gk&autoplay=1"],
                     }
             }
     },
     "playlist_2": {
             notificationExec: {
                    notification: "SWD_URL",
                    payload: {
                            url:["https://www.youtube.com/embed/bCuhuePlP8o?list=RDEMsPjiovzEgfLLK2w1FvFTOg&autoplay=1"],
                    }
             }
     },
     "playlist_pause": {
             notificationExec: {
                    notification: "SWD_PAUSE",
                    }
             },
     "playlist_play": {
             notificationExec: {
                    notification: "SWD_PLAY",
                    }
             },
     },
}

exports.recipe = recipe

Lists are starting correctly but when calling SWD_PAUSE it’s doing nothing and SWD_PLAY restart the list at beginning. Any clue?

[AgP42]

@smassy said in MMM-SmartWebDisplay : display web contents (including YouTube) on your MM:

@AgP42

Hello again, I’m trying to use the embeded calls “SWD_…” but there is something I’m not getting.

Lists are starting correctly but when calling SWD_PAUSE it’s doing nothing and SWD_PLAY restart the list at beginning. Any clue?

Hello,

yes, it is (unfortunately) the normal behavior, as written on the documentation :

- Play(or restart)/Pause/Stop the update and rotation of URLs

In fact I cannot stop the video itself, as it would imply to be connected to YouTube API. Here we “just” display the video. The function “play/pause” are for the rotation of the videos or playlist. If you want to stop the video, the best way will be to have an empty playlist that you can start to stop everything else.

I know it is bad looking and not intuitive, but I cannot do better with the technical solution with iFrames…

Sorry !