Here’s whats configured that currently IS working:

{
module: ‘newsfeed’,
position: ‘bottom_bar’,
config: {
feeds: [
{
title: “New York Times”,
url: “http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml”
},
{
title: “CNN”,
url: “http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss”
},

title: “Jerusalem Post”
url: “http://www.jpost.com/Rss/RssFeedsFrontPage.aspx”
},

{
title: “ESPN”,
url: “http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/news”
},
{
title: “Israel National News”,
url: “http://www.israelnationalnews.com/RSS.aspx”
},

			],
			showSourceTitle: true,
			showPublishDate: true
		}
	},

]

};

Here’s what I tried to get working:

{
module: ‘newsfeed’,
position: ‘bottom_bar’,
config: {
feeds: [
{
title: “New York Times”,
url: “http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml”
},
{
title: “CNN”,
url: “http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss”
},

{
title: “Yahoo News”,
url: “http://news.yahoo.com/rss”
},
{
title: “ESPN”,
url: “http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/news”
},

{
title: “ESPN Baseball”,
url: “http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/mlb/news”
},

{
title: “Israel National News”,
url: “http://israelnationalnews.com/RSS.aspx”
},
{
title: “Ynet Breaking News”,
url: “http://www.ynet.co.il/Integration/StoryRss3254.xml”
},
{
title: “Reuters”,
url: “http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews”
},

{
title: “Reuters Sports”,
url: “http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/sportsNews”
},

{
title: “Google News”,
url: “https://news.google.com/output=rss”
},

			],
			showSourceTitle: true,
			showPublishDate: true
		}
	},

]

};

Note, that I also tried to enter each one of the above feeds individually in the config file and restarted MM and got the no config file message for each. The only feeds I could get working are the ones in the working section I described above.

I feel like there must be something I am missing? Does the version of MM I am using matter? I’m not sure the command to tell which version I have, I searched the forum but couldn’t find anything.

Thanks,

Nathan

Some more that don’t work:
title: “Yahoo News”,
url: “http://news.yahoo.com/rss”

title: "Yahoo MLB",
url: “http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/rss.xml”

Hey all,

I’m trying to understand the RSS feeds that will and wont work in the news feed. Here’s one that I got working:

title: “ESPN”,
url: “http://www.espn.com/espn/rss/news”

and here are several that do not work (I get the no config file message when I start MM):

{
title: “Reuters”,
url: “http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews”
},
{
title: "Reuters Sports",
url: “http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/sportsNews”

Google News
url: “https://news.google.com/output=rss”

Can someone help me understand which feeds will and will not work? Also, what is the limit on the number of news feeds I can configure?

Thanks,

Nathan

I can’t get absolute dates working. Here’s the relevant part of my calandar.js file.

Anyone have any ideas?

Module.register(“calendar”,{

// Define module defaults
defaults: {
	maximumEntries: 10, // Total Maximum Entries
	maximumNumberOfDays: 365,
	displaySymbol: true,
	defaultSymbol: "calendar", // Fontawesome Symbol see http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/
	displayRepeatingCountTitle: false,
	defaultRepeatingCountTitle: '',
	maxTitleLength: 15,
	fetchInterval: 5 * 60 * 1000, // Update every 5 minutes.
	animationSpeed: 2000,
	fade: false,
	urgency: 0,
	timeFormat: "absolute",
	fadePoint: 0.25, // Start on 1/4th of the list.
	calendars: [
		{
			symbol: "calendar",
			url: "http://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics",
		},
	],

Did anyone ever get the Twitter module working?

Nice. I will be out of my home office for the next day or so, so I’ll be able to test if it stays up for the amount of time.

I just opened the wall in my bathroom to install the magic mirror + box/frame in and I want to make sure all is well before doing so.

Yup, that was the setting that I found too. Did it work for you?

Hey all, well, I tried every config file change that is out there, including the ones suggested above, none worked for me (I’m on a Pi 3).

What finally worked is this:

In the terminal window type: “sudo apt-get install xscreensaver” .

It will install a screen saver that you can then access from the menu. Go in and disable the blank screen.

This is the only thing that worked for me and my screen has been on for an hour now.

Hope it helps someone.

Nathan

Hey all,

I’ve made it all the way through the install and config and have everything running well. I’m in the final stages and am trying to get autostart on boot working and disable the Pi from powersaving the monitor (right now the monitor turns off after a few minutes and wakes after I move the mouse).

I followed the instructions here: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror but its still autosleeping and does not start on boot.

However, one thing I had trouble with was this step:

Starting your MagicMirror with PM2

Simply start your mirror with the following command:

pm2 start mm.sh
You mirror should now boot up and appear on your screen after a few seconds.

Enable restarting of the MagicMirror script.

To make sure the MagicMirror restarts after rebooting, you need to save the current state of all scripts running via PM2. To do this, execute the following command

pm2 save
And that’s all there is! You MagicMirror should now reboot after start, and restart after any failure.

When I entered pm2 start mm.sh the magic mirror program started, but in order to be able to then enter pm2 save I had to control-Q to stop the program to be able to get back to the terminal window. I’m not sure if that is the reason things are not working, or if there is another way I was supposed to do this?

In doing my research, I also followed the instructions here: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror
and changed the autostart file based on these instructions:

Edit 2015/3/2: As commenter Roland points out, please use the following file in the new Raspian version: /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

@xscreensaver -no-splash
Additionally, I added the following lines:

@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@chromium --kiosk --incognito http://localhost

Anyway, any help is appreciated, this is the one part of the install where I found conflicting instructions and somewhat confusing.

Thanks,

Nathan

Has anyone had any luck getting a twitter feed working on the magic mirror? I installed the module and inputted my account information in config.js per the instructions and just get a black screen on startup. If I remove the Twitter info from the config file everything works fine.

Thanks,

Nathan