@karsten13 – Yes, that’s what I figured.

The problem from the provider’s perspective would be how to both give access to legitimate subscribers while limiting access to others. The only solution that springs to mind would be to authenticate the user when they query the server, but for something like this where all the users’ computers might each be coming for content several times each day - it begins to be a lot of computing overhead.

@raspberrypi9 – Would the content provider happen to have a separate RSS feed for subscribers?

@sdetweil – True. I usually setup my Raspberry Pi servers with vnc enabled, but it’s been a while so I appreciate the reminder.

@sdetweil - Thanks Sam. Viewed from that perspective it makes perfect sense! I’ll see if I can put a vnc client back on my phone and do it that way.

@sdetweil - ok, I think I understand. Somehow I thought if I removed into the network, the magic mirror would perceive me as just being there on the local network - and thereby continue presenting the local data.

There must be something in the tailscale VPN that affects the magic mirror.

@sdetweil - the mirror is in the US (running on a raspberry pi connected to a local monitor), and I’m viewing it on my phone from Japan by accessing my home network over a tailscale VPN/zero tier network.

I’m traveling internationally and accessed the mirror in my home office over my tailscale VPN. When doing so, the clock module shows the time where I am and not where it is. I think openweathermap does too.

Is this expected behavior?

@MMRIZE – Ok, thanks. I had enabled the ‘showImage: true’ and didn’t see images so I was just wondering.

@MMRIZE – So to recap, is it the case that all that’s needed to get the pictures to display is to add “showImage: true” to the default newsfeed, or is something more required? If more is required, what would that be?

@ChrisLeduex – OK, thanks. I wasn’t sure that the url path went anywhere in particular.