@sdetweil yes, this is allowed, as I use client server environment, but thanks, good point

I just learned that via MMM-remote, I should be able to do it, but while I get success in the browser when entering an API url, the notification does not show up in https://github.com/darickc/MMM-BackgroundSlideshow and also does not show in the logs.
So maybe the issue is on the side of the receiving module!?

Then @sdetweil your suggestion will not work either, as it basically does the same as MMM-remote, is that right?

Hi,
I got the morror running with the help of this forum, thanks for that.
I am a (pro) user of ioBroker home automation. A shelly sensor gives me a trigger for when my doorbell is ringing, ending up as a data point in ioBroker.

Also I have a webcam at the door that can show a snapshot of the door. I have a snapshot URL in ioBroker, giving me a direct URL of the cam.

I am using https://github.com/darickc/MMM-BackgroundSlideshow as a slideshow on the mirror.

I would not like to send a notification to the slideshow to show the snapshot URL once the door bell is ringing. In ioBroker I have the option to run Javascript or command line .sh or call an API when the doorbell is ringing.
Ideally that would let me trigger the notification for the slideshow above.
It has the right notificationtype “BACKGROUNDSLIDESHOW_URL” that would let me do that.
But I would like to do it via ioBroker and trigger it from there.

Any suggestions? I have looked into various “helper” modules, but there does not seem to be a good solution.

Thanks,
chrga

@sdetweil ok, that makes sense, caching might be an issue!

ok, then I will look into pages. But remote does not allow to change the page, that is why i did not look into it.
And it should work with 2 configs, right?

Hi all,
I am running mm in a client server scenario with the server being on a proxmox server and client being a pi3 with custom install.

Things work really well.
I now want to change my setup so that I can switch between 2 configs with the first one being a slideshow in the background with a couple of modules showing data in front. The second is just the slideshow, just brighter.

I am controlling the server with the remote module and via an ioBroker home automation.
I get it to work so I can hide modules via the remote. Unfortunately the pi is rather slow, so it takes some time to reload the page and then the remote script that would hide the modules might run too early.

So my thought was to use two different configs. I use the setup in the instructions on how to use two configs, but looks like that does not work in a client server scenario.

Has anyone implemented this correctly?

Any recoomendations welcome!

Thanks,
chrga