@Sean Thanks, seems bout right. Will try it when I get home.

Hi, as the title states, I am looking for a way to run mm² without an internet connection as a demo. It is for my end of year major project, and my MM² based smart display will need to run for days on end without connecting to the internet, since I will not have access to it to connect it to the internet when it is being marked. Is there a way I can change the modules so they refer to local files and not internet servers? I currently have the default calendar, weather, date and clock modules as well as mmm-localpublictransport (I think thats the name). It is also already setup to launch MM² when the raspberry pi is powered on.

I think that the calendar and module should be able to refer to a local iCal file, but the weather and public transport modules rely on complex API’s that I’m not quite sure how to localise.

Any help/tips would be appreciated.

@maros One problem (which this thread was originally trying to solve) was the inability to prevent others from accessing the calendar. If a web crawler can find your link, they too will be able to read your calendar.

@maros you can add the bday calendar in the default calendar module by making your iCloud calendar public (tick the box circled in this screenshot), and you should be given a link that you can copy into the config file.
If you want to use google calendars, it should be similar. Just look up how to publicly share a google calendar, and get the link from there to put into your config.

@justjim1220 We are all able to do that, to clarify the issue. The objective is to find a way to use an iCloud calendar without having a public url, which is what your google calendar is currently using. By using a public URL, web crawlers are able to find and read your calendar events.

I am looking for anyone who has built a module with web scraping capabilities, I am looking to rewrite some code from a reddit bot that processes the data (in python), but I don’t know how to do it in JS. Has anyone done a module that can scrape data from a website and display a certain item?

@alexny007 I created my account last week, and was presented with the billing screen, however I somehow managed to set it up without actually giving any information, seems to be a bug when you have multiple tabs open, which allows you to bypass it. It says that I have one set up, but when I go to view its details, it asks me to enter them.

@emlowe Thanks, but I can’t since I use the 10.1" adafruit display, looking at the pinout it seems there is a way to control it, but I will have to manually wire it to the pi and write up a driver.

@justjim1220 thanks for that, however it appears that it just turns off the display. I am either looking for a way to drop the backlight lower than default minimum (probably impossible) or some way of putting a layer to block most light.

@cowboysdude I know this is like 7 months later, but my parts only just arrived. Do you have any ideas on ways to block the backlight? a mirror order isn’t exactly possible with the cost, I was thinking maybe blockout blinds or some kind of privacy glass layer?

@ruckus09 yeah, its one of the options in the config, called “maximumEntries” it defaults to 10 but can be change from 0-100 within the config

@ninjabreadman Does the weather module support dynamic locations? how would I get the weather location id for open weather. also, I was planning on using it not so much as determining the whole day weather, but warning the user about rain in the area or heat. Considering where I live it can vary a lot between the suburbs and the CBD.

Hey guys,
just finished setting up my pi3 and am installing modules as we speak, but one I couldn’t find and thought might be a useful addition would be a module that can get a location from a calendar event, plug it into open weather, and retrieve anything important about the weather (eg if an umbrella is needed, or if there is high temperatures expected)

@AlexMelb let me know when you post the results, I am looking for a mirror to cover my 10.1" touchscreen.

damn, I wish I knew this existed before I started on my “original idea”, making a magic mirror that isn’t technically a mirror but is instead a photogram with the MM modules on top that show and hide based on a motion sensor… Well at least I know what I can model my modules after now.

City mapper has a very complex api that I’m pretty sure requires a key, but if someone could map this in it would cover tonnes of areas (I know that none of the existing modules cover me here in Australia).

Step 1, choosing components. After a bit of research I have decided on using Raspberry pi 3 to power my clock, and a 10" touchscreen from Adafruit, the wifi capabilities are a must have for this project.

This is the start of the build log for my 10" magic alarm clock, here we go.

@cowboysdude have you got any ideas on how I block the blacklight so it could be kept it on at night? I’m thinking about using a variant of 1 way glass but would love your opinion.

@cowboysdude May I ask, what did you use for the frame around the display? I am thinking of either 3d printing or painting/wrapping wood