@rmonkey
I wrote a bash script that will take lat and lon, do an API call to Openweather, and get the sunset and sunrise times. then it will schedule a sunrise program and a sunset program to run via ‘at’. You can have +/- offsets for sunrise/sunset and you can just have a settime. So what I’m doing is doing api calls to MM at 10pm to turn off my background images, and then dim the screen via the remote api. then at 15 min after sunrise it puts it back to normal.

I have never published to github, but probably will at some point. Do you think this would be something folks would want? it is not a module. it does require jq and at to be installed on the linux system.

@rmonkey Thanks. I will get it published, don’t know when, but will get it published

@MichMich I only found out about MagicMirror two months ago, and in that time I have setup four MagicMirrors in frames (I got prefab’ed), two MagicMirrors in Dockers, and one running on our main TV. One of them is going in our RV, with GPS, that will automatically update weather, weather warnings, tell you where you are at, and turn on and off the frame at sunset/sunrise, at your current location. I have one with my elderly father, where we, can send pictures to the frame, and it can show him the weather. Playing with MM forced me to do my first pull request on Github to fix someones module. lol

I just want to thank you on your work on MagicMirror and how much pleasure it has brought to our family.

@sdetweil So I ened up using a Yo-Link Plug, and it’s API. I have my monitor plugged into the Yo-Link Plug. I wrote a script that sets a delay time off to 1 minute for the monitor, and then 10 seconds later does a sudo power off command. So the pi shuts down gracefuly and then the monitor. The pi is powered from the usb connector on the monitor.

Great build! I like it!

@JohnGalt I’m having that same issue. Larger area alerts I get smaller area alerts I do not. There is currently 3 alerts in my area. Flooding, Severe Thunderstorm Watch and Severe Thunderstorm Warning, but when I get a larger area alert is shows up. It would be interesting to know more about this.

@devonian69 Do you mean just a normal update for the module?

@rmonkey If you use MMM-BackgroundSlideShow, it has a radial option that is basically a vignette.

@1a2a3a Thank you Thank you Thank you… That worked for me as well… Message me, and I will get you a pizza like I promised to anyone who could get my pi4 running latest rasbian to turn off the monitor. Adding vc4.force_hotplug=1 to the end of the line in /boot/cmdline.txt did the trick along with using wlr-randr!!

I’m serious about the pizza.

@JohnGalt said in MM current version on Raspberry Pi 5 cannot turn off monitor:

@jbat66 - thanks for the offer. If you do wind up sharing your work, I will take a look and see if it works for me.

I don’t run any remote control module, and don’t find the “MMM-remote” you reference when I search. I do, however, find at least two (2) different modules called “MMM-Remote-Control” by two different authors. Do you mean one of those?

This one: https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control

Sorry I should have been more clear.

@sdetweil So I ened up using a Yo-Link Plug, and it’s API. I have my monitor plugged into the Yo-Link Plug. I wrote a script that sets a delay time off to 1 minute for the monitor, and then 10 seconds later does a sudo power off command. So the pi shuts down gracefuly and then the monitor. The pi is powered from the usb connector on the monitor.

@Saabman I know coding, but not some flavors, like java script and json, as an example or even API usage, but with Chat GPT over the last couple of months I have done a lot and learned a lot. It is great for making a function, or a small script, and then you use them as building blocks for larger projects. Shoot I have found out about services I never knew about. For example a website (openstreetmap.org) that has an API, that if you feed it GPS coordinates, it returns the street address, county, Country, etc. Another website (timezonedb.com) that if you feed it GPS coordinates it gives you the timezone, and GMT Offset.

My ChatGPT request was something like “Write a bash script that uses GPS coordinates set in variables to get the timezone” and tada I learned something.

Or using crazy sed commands (I never was good at them) to push the GPS data into the config.js for MM
#sed -i ‘/^\s*header: “TimeZone-- /c'”${THREE_TABS}“'header: “TimeZone-- '”$TIMEZONEABB”’ --------- Altitude: ‘“$ALTITUDE_FEET”’",’ “$CONFIG_FILE”

etc.

Great build! I like it!

@sdetweil
I looked it up and you can get power readings via the API.
http://doc.yosmart.com/docs/yolinkapi/Outlet

@sdetweil said in MM current version on Raspberry Pi 5 cannot turn off monitor:

@jbat66 trying to find devices without host connections… get more/all local

While the Yo-Link is great it is cloud and you can’t do local yet. They have been talking about it in their forums, however.