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I wrote a new module MMM-AutelisPentair to display information about the status of my pool system, pulled from my Autelis Pool Control box.

I really don’t like parsing XML, so I convert the XML to js using xml2js, which you need to install (npm install xml2js)

In theory you can also control the pool using this interface, but I haven’t done that - this is display only

Not everything is presented, since I don’t have some of the equipment (like IntelliChlor)

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-Earle

For those using the official 7" display you can use MMM-Screendimmer

Or write directly to /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness

Oh, and MM specifically is up for 20days:

pm2 show mm
 Describing process with id 0 - name mm 
│ status            │ online                               │
│ name              │ mm                                   │
│ restarts          │ 6                                    │
│ uptime            │ 20D

Just to followup on my CSS, the following should center the content pretty well on most setups - I can’t figure out why I have to manually set the height though, but if I don’t the border doesn’t draw around all the text.

This creates something like a “pop-up” in the middle of your screen for the content, which works pretty well for me.

.infoCenter {  
  position: fixed;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%,-50%); // This centers the box
  width: 80vw; // set the width to about 80% of the screen
  height: 20vw; // set the height to about 20% of the screen
}

CX3? I’m still using OG CX …

I couldn’t get CX2 to do what I was doing with CX so I never upgraded at all - it still runs, but it does have trouble parsing some kinds of calendar items.

I use OG CX to do

1. A single Day scrolling view for my 7" “Desktop MM” - not much screen space on the 7" screen so can only show a single day on one half in a scrolling loop

2. A 3-day view for the Kitchen Family Screen - an entire week makes things too small so you cannot see easily - a 3 day view fits nicely though and can use a nice large font

I’ll agree that CX2 was crazy complicated to configure though - and I gave up trying to get it look like I wanted.