@dzsoo said in MMM-Remote-Control module not showing FA icons before menu items:

After a clean install of MagicMirror2 with no errors, i also installed the MMM-Remote-Control module which is not showing the icons before menu items. Can anyone help about this issue?

See this post

Because MMM-Remote-Control menus are created differently to a standard module, a change is required to the modules code in order to adopt the update to Font Awesome icons.

There is a pull request with the fix, so please bear with @Jopyth whilst he tests the change

@sdetweil said in FontAwesome with MM 2.7.1 not showing some icons:

I saw another post on the same issue, and they posted that the module CODE has to change too

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10205/modules-icons

@sdetweil - the module code should not generally need changing. However, in the case of MMM-SystemStats, font awesome was not being referenced, so a module change was recommended. Otherwise, if that module was the only module included in the config, no icons would display at all.

@Jonas2903 when a module includes font-awesome.css using getStyles in version 2.7, the FA5 css is included as well as the FA4 shims css.

This provides backwards compatibility and means that icons can be referenced by either their old or new alias, in other words both <i> and <i> will display the same icon.

For more info see the font awesome documentation.

So we need to find out what’s affecting your mirror. Could you remove all modules (including the default modules like alert, calendar etc) from your config except MMM-Fuel and see if the icon appears?

@Quesada said in Modules icons:

Another solution i found is “updating” font awesome icons from 4 to 5.
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/8776/update-font-awesome-to-version-5
but the problem is when i start MagicMirror it takes a long time to load and some modules do not load well.

The method in that post was a way of getting FA5 icons in Magic Mirror before version 2.6. So should not be needed in 2.6 or 2.7.

If you do use it, you will load multiple versions of font awesome in the same webpage - which is not recommended and can cause unknown issues.

In 2.7, module developers requiring FA icons should use the getStyles method as per the documentation. MM will take care of ensuring only one link to the fa library is included.

Unfortunately, 2.6 allowed a module to require fa4 or fa5 resulting in multiple versions of FA on your mirror. This should be fixed in 2.7

@Quesada I’m not sure about the weather module but MMM-SystemStats does not appear to reference font awesome in the MMM-SystemStats.js file

It should include the getStyles function similar to the following…

getStyles: function() {
        return ['font-awesome.css'];
    },

If you have just updated your mirror to v2.7 - make sure you run npm install from the MagicMirror directory. This should allow the module to correctly display font awesome 4 and 5 icons

If you are using v2.6, there was an issue where some Font Awesome icons were not working depending on which modules were in use. Upgrading to v2.7 should resolve this.

@Jopyth - the font awesome package was updated in v2.7 so the direct reference to FA in remote.html will need to be updated.

It looks like this line
link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vendor/node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css"
Should be changed to
link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vendor/css/font-awesome.css"

But I’m away from my mirror right now so cannot test it.

@dxfan227 you’ve got it!

You can use almost any word for the titleClass providing you use the same value in the custom.css file. e.g. titleClass: "word" and div.module.calendar td.word - it is possible to include uppercase and lowercase letters (a-z or A-Z) in the word as well as numbers (0-9) or even hyphens (-) and underscores (_), but avoid punctuation and other such characters. There are many recommendations for css class naming conventions, but that’s for another day. I’d say just be clear and descriptive.

The color is defines by the hex value (e.g. #0e66b3) . Here is an overview if you’re not already familiar - https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors.asp

It’s worth noting the css is defined in the custom.css file. You may find some suggest changing the files within the module directory. Avoid this where ever possible as such changes will make updating modules more difficult.

Remember this customisation is only required because it can’t currently be achieved using the calendar modules configuration options. It’s possible (but less likely) that future changes to the module may break these customisations so watch out if upgrading the mirror.

As you learn you may wish to push changes to the modules code so they become supported configuration options for others to use.

Take it slowly, and enjoy the mirror.

@dxfan227 said in 2 Of the same module but different position via css?:

@ianperrin
Beautiful. Exactly what I was looking for. regarding your example below ( 2 calendars 1 module with different icons) what would it look like if I wanted sat just the title of of the event to be a different color ( but not the “in x amount of days” ) part

I believe the default calendar module allows colors to be configured, but these will affect the whole row, or only the symbol.

To color just the title, try this

1. Change the config to set the titleClass for each calendar, e.g.

{
	module: "calendar",
	header: "Holidays",
	position: "top_left",
	config: {
		calendars: [
			{
				symbol: "calendar",
				url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics",
				titleClass: "red"
			},{
				symbol: "calendar-check",
				url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics",
				titleClass: "blue"
			}
		]
	}
},

2. Edit the custom.css file located in ~/MagicMirror/css to include the following

div.module.calendar td.red {
    color: #ad0143;
}
div.module.calendar td.blue {
    color: #0e66b3;
}

3. Restart the mirror

@dxfan227 - if you simply want to display two calendars, but are happy for them to appear in one list, you can try the following config - note how different symbols can be used to differentiate between the two calendars

{
	module: "calendar",
	header: "Holidays",
	position: "top_left",
	config: {
		calendars: [
			{
				symbol: "calendar",
				url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics",

			},{
				symbol: "calendar-check",
				url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics"
			}
		],
		maximumEntries: 20
	}
},

@AdnanAhmed97 - if the default calendar module is being used, it is not necessary to clone it as multiple instances of the module can be added to the config.js file without having to use the clone trick.

@dxfan227 - assuming you are using the default calendar module, and want two calendar to be displayed side by side, try the following:

1. Add two instances of the calendar module to your config.js file

{
	module: "calendar",
	header: "US Holidays",
	position: "top_left",
	config: {
		calendars: [
			{
				symbol: "calendar-check",
				url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics"
			}
		]
	}
},
{
	module: "calendar",
	header: "UK Holidays",
	position: "top_left",
	config: {
		calendars: [
			{
				symbol: "calendar-check",
				url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics"
			}
		]
	}
},

2. Edit the custom.css file located in ~/MagicMirror/css to include the following

div.module.calendar {
    float: left;
    padding-right: 20px;
}

3. restart the mirror

The result should be something similar to this: