@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?