Thanks @sdetweil and @KristjanESPERANTO - I solved the problem now successfully using your hints :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone:

Using MMM-Pages indeed looked a bit easier to configure - however, it showed one disadvantage: there were no navigation buttons (to select a page manually or to move left/right, like in MMM-Carousel) - I’d like to have these, because I’m planning to use a touchscreen monitor.

So I went back to MMM-Carousel - and the essential hint was indeed to use the SAME carouselId for ALL same module instances on the SAME page. Actually this is a small flaw in the documentation (the examples there are based on the situation that you have only one instance of a module on a page, and when having another instance on another page, then you need to have a different carouselId).

So thanks again!

@mumblebaj
Yes, thanks - I’m aware of the MMM-page-indicator, but I prefer the navigation buttons from MMM-Carousel (big left/right icons, in addition to the clickable indicators for the number of pages).

Update: found it how to export also the birthday calendar (this only works by exporting ALL your calendars at once, but not on the birthday calendar itself).
And anyhow - that didn’t solve my issue - because the exported birthday calendar has each of the birthdays as 3 single events (birthday from last, current and next year), but it’s not a yearly event-series. So using this exported file once wouldn’t help much on my MM - after 2 years all the birthdary events would be gone again.
I will use a workaround now: I will create a separate calendar, where I enter all the birthdays manually (as yearly events). This calendar will then have a public address, and I can include it as separate calendar in MM.

@Rags sorry to ask a maybe stupid question: but how do I export the birthday calendar from my Google calendars?

The key here is, that the birthday calendar it not a “normal” calendar with an ics file, so when looking into the calendar options, it doesn’t offer an export option (while it does for all my normal calendars).

Thx, Chris

got it working - MMM-PIR-Sensor-Lite has a “rotation” option…

@BKeyport this is what I did even before playing around with config.txt and xrandr options (sorry, didn’t mention that in my post).

So, means: portrait mode basically works fine for the whole desktop. But when starting MM with Electron, then it changes back.

Meanwhile, I deactivated all modules and started to enable them again one after the other (because I already had the impression that the problem might be caused by one of the modules, as the MM started with correct orientation, but immediately switched back right after loading) - AND: I found the problematic module: MMM-PIR-Sensor-Lite

Need to check for detailed configuration options there… let’s see if I can get it working or not

Hi community!

I have a problem with screen rotation in my MagicMirror.

I need to rotate it to portrait mode, therefore I applied

@xrandr --output HDMI-1 --rotate right

Note:

• this basically works for the Desktop
• I did it this way, because the option “display_hdmi_rotate=1” in /boot/config.txt doesn’t work on Raspberry > 3

However, now when starting MM with Electron (npm run start), I can see for 1 second or so, that it display correctly in portrait mode, but then immediately switches back to landscape mode!?
And even when stopping MM then again, also the Desktop is switched back to landscape mode.

Does anyone have an idea what I’m doing wrong?
Please help!
Thanks in advance!
Best regards, Chris

@kristjanesperanto I think the best place for such documentation would be in section “Example - Advanced Slides Carousel” in the README.md. You could use my example configuration (see my other post above)

@plainbroke yes exactly - and I managed to do it like this in the meanwhile.

As mentioned in one of the posts above - the key learning was to use the same carouselId for all modules (which I use multiple times) which should be on the same page.

So my configuration for MMM-Carousel looks like this now:

{
            module: 'MMM-Carousel',
            position: 'bottom_bar', // Required only for navigation controls
            config: {
                transitionInterval: 15000,
                showPageIndicators: true,
                showPageControls: true,
                ignoreModules: ['clock', 'alert', 'updatenotification'],
                mode: 'slides',
                slides: {
                    "1": [
                            {name:'calendar', carouselId: "Calendar1"}, // Calendar of Chris
                            {name:'calendar', carouselId: "Calendar1"}, // Calendar of Karin
                            'MMM-WeeklySchedule'
                         ],
                    "2": [
                            {name:'calendar', carouselId: "Calendar2"}, // Calendar for trash
                            {name:'calendar', carouselId: "Calendar2"}, // Calendar for Austrian holidays
                            {name:'calendar', carouselId: "Calendar2"}, // Calendard for birthdays
                            'newsfeed'
                         ],
                    "3": [
                            {name:'weather', carouselId: "Weather1"}, // current weather at home
                            {name:'weather', carouselId: "Weather1"}, // weather forecast at home
                            {name:'weather', carouselId: "Weather1"}, // weather in some other location
                            'MMM-network-signal',
                            'MMM-NetworkConnection'
                         ],
                    "4": [
                            'MMM-GooglePhotos'
                         ]
                }
            }
		},

It shows two calendars on the first page, and 3 other calendars on the second page. Further, it shows 3 weather modules on the third page.

@mumblebaj
Yes, thanks - I’m aware of the MMM-page-indicator, but I prefer the navigation buttons from MMM-Carousel (big left/right icons, in addition to the clickable indicators for the number of pages).

Thanks @sdetweil and @KristjanESPERANTO - I solved the problem now successfully using your hints :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone:

Using MMM-Pages indeed looked a bit easier to configure - however, it showed one disadvantage: there were no navigation buttons (to select a page manually or to move left/right, like in MMM-Carousel) - I’d like to have these, because I’m planning to use a touchscreen monitor.

So I went back to MMM-Carousel - and the essential hint was indeed to use the SAME carouselId for ALL same module instances on the SAME page. Actually this is a small flaw in the documentation (the examples there are based on the situation that you have only one instance of a module on a page, and when having another instance on another page, then you need to have a different carouselId).

So thanks again!

Hi all!

I’m using MMM-Carousel (the one from shbatm !)to manage several pages for my MagicMirror project, as I want to show quite some modules. And I need to have several instances of the same module on one page, e.g. the calendar (I’m using it to show several different Google calendars).
This works without MMM-Carousel, but I can’t get it working with MMM-Carousel.

The same problem exists with the default “weather” module: as current weather and weather forecast are just 2 different configurations of the same module, I’m not able to show the current weather AND the forecast on the same page.

Details:

• having the same module distributed across the pages in Carousel works, e.g. calendar 1 on the first page, calendar 2 on the second page
• but having calendar 1 AND calendar 2 on the SAME page in Carousel doesn’t work (it shows the first instance of the calendar only, although I have configured the carouselId correctly in all places)

Can someone give me a hint how to solve that?