I can build my digital picture frame without going though a bunch of gyrations and that was my goal so I’m content. 3 - 4 days ago that looked grim.

Now to look into your comment about a server for all my pictures and see what that requires.
Stuff I’m likely ignorant of at this moment I’m sure.

@sdetweil This is where ALT comes from. First one I built I did on my own with no guidance and I expect it is why you have seen other people saying ALT doesn’t work anymore. I can only work off the documentation. Documents said hit ALT key, I hit ALT key and it works.

@sdetweil Now if I had a magic wand I could wave and this ALT issue would go up in a puff of smoke that would be nice too.

@sdetweil I was mainly curious to understand how it broke.
I look at these MM’s as these totally encapsulated hardware/module systems where say you built one two years ago, used whatever rendition of Pi+MM+modules were out at the time. You plugged it in and off to the races.

IF you leave it alone, don’t update Pi, don’t update MM, it should run forever (technically) until something in the hardware breaks.

So I’m always intrigued as a learning thing for me is just to understand what were the circumstances around “It has run for years and It just quit working”

@Dracarys What is Update/Upgrade?
Just sudo apt update the then sudo apt full-upgrade or something different? Seems odd that other modules stopped working, you updated Pi OS, I assume and now DHT sensor quits.
What is status of the other modules that were broken that prompted an update.

@lnicaodh If it is any consolation I have 3 Pi4b’s and 1 Pi3B and they all exhibit the same behavior.
Ive done automated installs, manual installs 64 bit, 32 bit, and none of them function by hitting ALT key.
F11 will reduce size on MM screen so you can get at file manager and Shift+CTL+I will launch developer tools.

I suspect as prices continue to drop on Pi’s this is going to show up more and more.

@MMRIZE I know all about 3rd party modules, some of which are well built, some others, not so much.
Just reaching out to people who may have already done same sort of project to avoid picking one of the not so good modules.

Kind of like Amazon, I don’t want to find 3 pieces of inferior product before stumbling on the quality module.

@sdetweil Kind of my thinking too.

@sdetweil I’m going to take a crack at loading a personal calendar but have a question that maybe you can answer. really relates to the Google side of things.

Google has public and or share with certain people that I equate to a private view.
In a home network environment is there a tangible benefit of one over the other. Both are hopefully behind a firewall, you are using good password security.
Everyone in IT security always going to default to private being safer and I do not disagree but curious if there is a real difference since you are hopefully doing the proper security within your home network

@Elkanah Glad I could help.
You can stack modules one after the other because in some respects something like top_left has no bottom. You can have modules below the bottom of the physical monitor.
If you want modules in a particular order, arrange them that way in config.js

If you are looking for a particular color or say colors that compliment each other you can do a search on “hex color codes” and you will get the hex nomenclature for every color imaginable. Some colors you can just say “black” or “white” and that will work but I’ve personally stuck with using the hex codes for the most part.