@sdetweil Is there any type of calendar module to fill that niche. Was about the most convoluted way imaginable to essentially get my Samsung phone calendar to post items on to my MM.
Samsung Calendar app---->Google Calendar---->CalExt2—>Visual on MM

@jalibu It’s not a big deal. Once I Googled it and backed out references to Home Depot in my search I found some references that I figured it loosely meant balance as in bank balance or share balance. I follow US stock markets to a certain degree and had never heard the term. One of the thousands of obscure bits of trivia salted away in my brain.

@Jalibu I installed MMM-Jast yesterday and it in general is working but I have a question about the ticker stocks. Under the Stock object settings it says name and quantity are optional, which I also read as the ticker symbol is mandatory. Since all I wanted was the symbols, I just deleted name and quantity so each stock in list looked like the {symbol: "xyz"} . Rather than getting the symbol, I get JUST the name + associated data. Not the end of the world but some of the names are quite long so you only get two or three stocks showing. With just the ticker showing, a lot more stocks are visible at once which helps with getting a sense of the overall market.
I did deviate from that format for the DJIA & NASDAQ where I have name and symbol. Is there a way to get module to output just the symbol?

What is Depot in relation to this module? I’ve never heard term in relation to stocks.

@sdetweil It’s in the ClendarExt2

.CX2 { /* default values which are used frequently or dependently */
  row-min-width: 100px;
  row-max-width: 500px;
  column-min-width: 300px;
  column-max-width: 400px;
  font-size: 12px;
}

Unknown property: ‘row-min-width’, same with all 4

I use VS Code as my editor and it is fine at recognizing standard CSS items of which there must be thousands but I see in some of these modules developers create custom CSS items and VS Code flags them, I think I saw same when I was using other editors early on.
Code throws up a warning flag on the custom items but I’m at a loss as to how to clear them. I imagine it i similar to writing an engineering heavy document where I just say “add to dictionary” and resolves problem. Do these code editors have a similar way of clearing the warning. I’ve tried to figure out in VS Code but so far have not been successful so just ignoring

@sdetweil Thank You. I do appreciate the help.
I’m going to post another question but it’s kinda-sorta a CSS and code editor question so will post there.

@sdetweil That was the ticket, Is it just random modules use that request module or is there a common thread among the modules that require(d) use of that module?

Also, is that something module developers have to fix? I was using on my original MM an iFrame module and when I was going to use it this time there was a notice on developers readme.md with about an 80 sized font saying this module broken after that 2.16 update. I’ll leave it at that.

Do you all post issues and work-arounds in like this github repository?

I already know of a module that was doing same yesterday

@sdetweil I’ve seen those but those all are parts that I don’t know how to fix. I get that it is telling me it needs a module but not sure where to get that module then how to subsequently install. I’m capturing the first error at each time stamp as I assume other following errors just downstream effect

Uncommenting SystemStats I get the below:

[ERROR] WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: Cannot find module 'request'

Recommenting SystemStats, uncommenting NewsFeedTicker I get:

[13.07.2021 15:46.38.418] [ERROR] Error: Cannot find module 'request'

@sdetweil I’m baffled. I get a ton of errors, none of which appear to be anything I would even interact with.
I was wrestling with MMM-NewsFeedTicker when I first posted. So I commented out that portion of config.js restart, everything good.
So I tried a different module, MMM-SystemStats, same exact result, installed module in mm/modules like I am supposed to, copied the config portion, pasted in to config.js, restarted MM, black screen. Commented out its portion config file, restarted everything runs.

FWIW I have refortmatted sd card, installed Pi OS, then MM like 3 times, all with the same exact reslt

I am having a vexxing problem I am unable to figure out.
When I do fresh install of MM, all the pre-loaded modules run fine.
I have tried to install several different modules by running the git command in MagicMirror/modules like normal.
As soon as I do copy/paste the module script in config.js and hit SAVE MM cranks up but all there is is black screen with nothing on it. Not even the screen that says your config.js has a problem.
I then have to call up a terminal via ctl+alt+t and then pm2 stop MagicMirror and it stops.
What is keyboard shortcut to get the Developer Tools to run since hitting the alt key does not show VIEW so unable to reach them from that direction.
I’ve made about 4 MM’s no problems so I know the process. This fresh install of both Pi OS---->MagicMirror and I can not get modules to run.

@sdetweil Just thinking might be confusing to someone if they forgot that command, went hunting for it, saw pm2 start mm then don’t know why it won’t start.
First installation I did was the “official” manual installation.
That actually bit me on my second installation which used your installation script. I had the manual installation pm2 start mm set in my head from manual installation. I figured it out pretty promptly but I still like to skim through those first few sections to make sure I didn’t miss/forget a step.

Doing new MM installation and noticed on page that tell you how to setup and use pm2 it references pm2 start mm.

You might want to edit page to reflect the current pm2 start MagicMirror. If you use @sdetweil automated installation.

@sdetweil This a follow-on question regarding developer tools while MM running. If you have a module that is updating at a rapid pace it gets to be a real challenge trying to drill down to the lines you want to look at because at each cycle it will close all the expanded subsections. Is there a way to stop that other than setting a large update value?
Seems like it was either stock ticker or news ticker were culprits as rest of modules like calendar you can update every 12 hours or so.

@sdetweil When you address header as in the question above are you not speaking to the page as a whole?
Some modules have headers effectively turned on while others have header turned off.
I know that it pays to look at how each individual module is configured by its author.
If author of module in question is setting that property in their module CSS which one will take precedence, the
header { property}
or
.mymodule {property}

The following is from my big screen nightmare project via @Piranha1605 and is for setting border color but I think would be applicable to other module properties as well.

.module.MMM-CalendarExt2,
.module.weather,
.module.currentweather,
.module.calendar,
.module.MMM-Pollen,
.module.MMM-SystemStats {
 background-color:#2a313b;
 border-radius:8px;
 padding:8px;
 box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 1), 0 8px 20px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.19);
}

@matt216 Maybe some version of
.module.mymodule .header { yada yada }

.mymodule .header { yada yada }

SWAG on my part in some respects.

@djboob66 I have a portable Toshiba drive plugged in to the very Pi I want to make the copy of. Originally bought to upload camera images from my camera’s SD card. Plugged in a few months ago to see how the Pi would respond.

@sdetweil Thanks. Seems easy enough. There seem to be more than one way to skin that cat. Which is preferred?

Can I copy the whole SD card of an existing MM + Raspian OS on to a second SD card. I have a spare Pi and a donor monitor but not so proficient in Linux based commands and my copying experience more at the file/folder level.

@sdetweil That wa the ticket. Ran npm install on that module, said it installed 2 components which I took as a positive sign. Un-commented the module in config.js and running well.