So I did a direct copy paste of MMM-NewsFeedTicker from a MM where it works flawlessly over to big screen MM where it doesn’t work flawlessly.

If I comment out the NewsFeedTicker in config.js everything is good. Put back in service and it just pops up a black screen that I assume is some alternative terminal, Electron.
The only difference is that the MM that works is running older version of MM as I have not updated it.

@bugsounet @sdetweil I’ll take the advice of the experts.

I had configuration error yesterday and was getting the broken configuration screen and decided to do the config:check line that is displayed and after it ran with no issues but did throw up big message block that said “MAJOR UPDATE AVAILABLE” in big bold text and was wondering about running that update and where it goes.

@sdetweil I understand that. It had “loading” displayed when I went to bed but when I got up forecast/current had loaded and was displaying the current forecast.
So in some respect weathergov forecast/current was functional,

@ankonaskiff17 FWIW, the weathergov “forecast/current” loaded at some point… I posted message about last evening about hitting wall. Quit for the day and powered down monitor which I just turned on and it was up and running. I’ve rebooted and it is in that “Loading…” mode similar to what was resolved on the forecast module. I started stopwatch to see how long it takes to load. Surprised me that’s for sure. I was sitting there looking at it for a couple of minutes before it sank in to my brain.

@sdetweil So for time being its best to stick with Current Weather module that I already have up and running on different device. I can just copy/paste and be done with it since it works using openweathermap.

I’ve hit a wall on getting the hourly forecast to work.
It seems straightforward, instead of /forecast I use forecast/hourly but it just wont go.
I went to weather.gov site and I can find stuff about gridpoints and following their instructions get a result.
The other part and where I am way over my head is I ran across some lines that say something to effect that api.weather.gov/points/forecast/hourly are deprecated where api.weather.gov/points/forecast is not.
I’m stuck

@sdetweil That’s all good now. Wrestling with another instance of module but for current weather and it is whipping me.

@sdetweil That 7" is history. On my fathers coffee table now.
The one I’m working on now is 42" monitor. It will be input on bedroom TV . I’ll just edit HDMI input label as MM so I can toggle inputs on TV remote so I can get quick summary of weather, news, headlines, stock market. Not much on watching TV in bed but had spare monitor & seemed like a good application.
I have freestanding one in living room and and I look at it many times during course of the day.

@sdetweil I’ve used developer tool a bunch to get things lined up, font sizing etc.
I figured tableClass sizes were defined somewhere, just didn’t know where to look. I had looked in weather CSS but was not there.
developer tool was a challenge on that 7" screen MM

Is there a reference to where tableClass small, medium, large dimensions are located and how can you tweak size of the table in CSS so you can getting sizing correct in relation to modules stacked above or below.
There are a bunch of discrete scripts contained in that module and I searched a few of them to see if I could track down table sizing but no joy.

@sdetweil I tried that with the default zero but was kind of wondering about that when most of timer type units are in millisecond values larger than effectively “no milliseconds.”
Just tested and that was the ticket.
Seems like maybe default should be 1000 and not zero.
After you set me straight about not editing modules directly I try and minimize duplicating configuration settings that are in module itself.
Especially in a 5 day (default) forecast probably updating every 2 - 3 hours is overkill but with default load delay of 0 that means your first view of forecast is 2 - 3 hours after starting MM.
Thanks for getting me straight.

I have set up the new weather module for both forecast and current. As of right now I’ve gotten the 5 Day forecast to run but it appears that it won’t populate the data until AFTER the “updateInterval = X” times out then it loads data. As a practical matter there is no need to update a 5 day forecast that fast and I had it set for 60 minutes. So after sitting there with “Loading…” for 60 minutes it then loaded the module data.

Is there a way to make module make a retrieve as soon as launched then start counting down, rather than after the interval times down to zero then load first batch of data?

I have initialLoadDisplay = 0 in config file but doesn’t seem to impact initial loading of forecast data.

Is there a way to set the default code editor in Pi OS? A couple come pre-loaded and I use VS Code. I’d like to set that so it isn’t multiple choice each time.

@doppelganger It isn’t really that bad.
Unfortunately that was an early Fathers Day gift and now at fathers, so I can’t show the exact configuration .

But for instance, the below gives you shadows and radiused corners. I just copied from the CSS on @Piranha1605 Black Boxes example and dropped it in my custom.css file.
Just delete modules you don’t have, add ones you do have.
For me that meant deleting newsfeed, compliments and both the weatherforecast and currentweather since the weather module takes place of current and forecast.

/**

• module.color_border_shadow
  */
  .module.clock,
  .module.calendar,
  .module.newsfeed,
  .module.weatherforecast,
  .module.currentweather,
  .module.compliments {
  padding:8px;
  border-radius: 10px;
  box-shadow: 0 2em 6em #000;
  background: transparent;
  }

So mine is:
module.clock
module.calendar
module.weather
module.MMM-SmartWebDisplay {
padding:8px;
border-radius: 15px;
box-shadow: 0 2em 6em #000;
background: transparent;
}

The iFrame was a roll of dice on my part but it worked with no problems

I increased border-radius: to 15px (I think) but may be 12px and got more of a radius than in the original example.

I copy/pasted his header from the #3 example neomorphism to get the headers on the weather and calendar to get shadowed look. Clock has no header so no effect.

@doppelganger @doppelganger I copy/pasted several CSS items courtesy of @Piranha1605 in the Custom CSS Showcase
Located in Custom CSS here–> css-experiments-for-newbies
Modules are default weather and clock modules. Radar is an iFrame module, MMM-SmartWebDisplay courtesy @AgP42
Deleted a bunch of the preloaded modules in a fresh MM2 install as it is a jumbled up mess with stuff piled on top of each other with default sizes that won’t work on 7" Pi screen.
After doing what amounted to copy/paste of sections of CSS in either dark or light theme ( don’t recall which but they are approx. same other than color) then started swapping out color codes to see what was appealing to me. Pulling up a hex color picker site will provide hex codes to experiment with.
Biggest challenge was having to adjust font sizes, padding, height x width of iFrame primarily to get everything to fit.
Some folks not a fan of VNC that comes with Pi OS but I find it invaluable when working on GUI stuff like this.

@sdetweil I did use your script.

Took a little tweaking but here is 7" monitor and Pi in a combo case/stand. Should work well.

When I save the config file the MM reloads in fullscreen mode and my past MM builds did not do this.
How do I stop this? I like to save my work periodically and having to go through the toggle fullscreen every time I click save is annoying.

@harney That pictured MM is :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:
Thank You.