@romain I figured it out! The console showed me it was April 29 today (which is the right date), but it was written as “Apr. 29”, so with a dot behind the month. I tried writing it like this in the code and now it works!
So it has to be:

if (moment().format('MMM D') == 'Apr. 29')

and then it works :)
And now I know how to run my mirror in dev mode, which will be useful in the future ;) Thank you!

@romain I live in Germany, at the time I posted it was already the 27th here :) It still does not work, even though now it is the 27th pretty much everywhere in the world. Do you have any idea what might be the reason when you look at the code I posted?

@pauabaer

as you can see I don´t know much about coding, but have you tried just deleting all the default compliments and then adding the line that romain suggested?

@romain said in Is there a way to show specific compliments on specific dates?:

if (moment().format(‘MMM D’) == ‘Apr 27’)
complimentText = “Happy birthday”

Thank you for your help @romain !
I tried it but it does not work.
The config file of the compliments module now looks like this:

// Override dom generator.
   getDom: function() {
   	var complimentText = this.randomCompliment();
			if (moment().format('MMM D') == 'Apr 27')
   			 complimentText = "Happy birthday"
   	var compliment = document.createTextNode(complimentText);
   	var wrapper = document.createElement("div");
   	wrapper.className = this.config.classes ? this.config.classes : "thin xlarge bright";
   	wrapper.appendChild(compliment);

   	return wrapper;

But the mirror shows only the normal compliments.

Does this code add the birthday message to the normal compliments or does it replace them so that only happy birthday is shown on this day? If it is added, maybe I just need to wait longer until it is shown at random?

I think I kind of understood what you explained in the last part, but I would not know how to do this, sorry. I think you described how I would be able to add dates in the config file of the mirror instead of the config of the compliments module, didn´t you? I would like to do this, would you mind explaining it a little more detailed?

Thank you for your help!

Hi,

sorry if this is the wrong category for my question but the other categories don´t seem to fit either.

I want to show messages on specific dates, like “Happy Birthday!” on my birthday. Those messages shall be shown just like regular compliments and in addition to the compliments. Is there an addon for the compliments module to achieve this?

Sorry for the late reply. I updated to the new MM release and it broke everything. But now I fixed it and was able to test again.

I see the new content every time its refreshing, so it works!
Thank you so much for your help!

Hi straawberry, thank you for your help!
So, my js file now looks like this:

	getDom: function() {
		var iframe = document.createElement("IFRAME");
		iframe.style = "border:0"
		iframe.width = this.config.width;
		iframe.height = this.config.height;
		iframe.scrolling = this.config.scrolling;
		iframe.src =  this.config.url;
                iframe.setAttribute("timestamp", new Date().getTime());
		iframe.id = this.config.id;
		return iframe;

is that right?

And my congif.js now looks like this:

	{
	module: 'MMM-iFrameReload',
	position: 'bottom_right', // This can be any of the regions.
		config: {
		// See 'Configuration options' for more information.
		url: "http://MY_URL",
		width: "80%", // Optional. Default: 400px
		height: "400px", // Optional. Default: 800px
		scrolling:"no",
		refreshInterval: 60, //Optional. Default: 3600 = 1 hour
		animationSpeed: 4000,
		}
	},

Is that right?

The stream is working right now, but I don´t see any refresh animation. I will have to wait until tomorrow to see if it reloads because most of the times it takes some hours for the stream to freeze.

Unfortunately no. I am still looking for a solution. And I´m still hoping somebody might help with this issue.

My default calendar module imports facebook birthdays and a few days ago it just stopped working without me changing anything. It just says “no entries”. After that I changed the url so that it would show upcoming events instead of birthdays. This still works, events are shown. But birthdays still don´t.

Does anybody else have this problem? What can I do to fix this?

…me again. Unfortunately, iframe reload did not work. There seems to be an known issue with refreshing pages but I tried the suggested fixes and nothing worked:
https://github.com/TheBogueRat/MMM-iFrameReload/issues/2?_pjax=%23js-repo-pjax-container

The author of the module does not answer me, maybe I can get some help here? When you click on the link you see my post where I describe what I already tried.