@Mykle1

Good to know, as i was not aware there was a yellow - upper_third or cyan - middle_centre zones available… just the magneta - lower_third for compliments.

top_bar and bottom_bar are light gray
top_left and bottom_left are red
top_center and bottom_center are blue
top_right and bottom_right are green
upper_third is yellow
middle_center is cyan
lower_third is magenta

All these regions will resize as needed.

@cowboysdude said in SmartThings:

@johnnyboy trying… trying LOL Great to see you!!!

As @buzzkc has stated about Device Handlers, and Im sure you have (Must have?) already done this… these can be found in the IDE, which are C&P from github.
There is a constantly updated list of DH’s on the ST Forum, so worth checking that out to compare with the devices you have, and wish to manipulate.

Me personaly, I use WebCoRE to do my manipulation… and If I need to add anything that is not the “Norm” then I would simply create a Virtual switch on the IDE, and then point towards that, with my chosen manipulation… and if you have used WebCoRE before, then you know it has limitless possibilities. Bad comparason, but I look at WebCoRE as IFTTT on Steroids :-)

Some things I do, requires using several items… like my door sensor for example - It opens (Trigger ) and it then informs ST… which then informs WebCoRE, whitch then informs EchoSpeaks to then go through Amazon, to speak my chosen text, on my chosen Amazon devices - “Warning, Side door has been opened… Alarm sequence will initiate in T-Minus 20 seconds”
I also added in another “Then” which will turn my chosen lights on @ 100%, until door is closed… and also to turn on my smart plug, which has a Siren attached, to activate after the 20 second time, also to start recording on CCTV in that location.

The lag on this is about 2 seconds… so not a real concern given the hoops it has to jump through beforehand.

I have only ever needed to slightly alter a DH once, for a Hive Sensor… but that was to simply change a 6second delay to a 12 second delay… purely because the original usage would be going through 1 loop, and I was going through 4, so need to extend the timeout.
I also have my Hive Heating controllable through ST of sorts, using ActionTiles and placing Hive on the screen there.

IF my MM was Touchscreen, and I had the time to work it out, I would have loved to be able to place several icons/Tiles (Virtual Switches) onto it, and control numerous ST devices from there… But I found it far far quicker, and easier, to simply use a Tablet… with the benefit that I can add several other tablets throughout the house, each with either control of that zone only, or the ability to swipe to another zone from the same screen… by creating a Link tile in every window to go to a chosen zone.

You could also create Media Tiles… showing a constant stream of several cameras… and make that Tile as small or as big as you like… I have Netflix/Amazon/Kodi/IPTV as tiles too, so one click, and it pops up for me.

And, as mentioned, it will aslo link to any app you have on the device you are using, by creating a link tile to it… which will open up for you directly in that screen/tile… and I find this usefull when playing music through my Sonos system, and can bring up the full library to choose from, and be able to control the speakers too.

I’m not sure by your OP that you are wanting to manipulate the data to then create something to use on the MM framework, or whether you simply want to manipulate the data just to alter things to your own suiting?
But if you have read anything above that you need any more info on, then ask away…

@cowboysdude

Perfect thanks

@broberg

Ahhhhhhhhh… Gotcha ;-)… reduce the % of the container also reduces it’s contents in relation. Thanks.

@broberg

Ah, ok… I was jumping ahead of myself there… so I will try

.MMM-WunderGround {
    width : 200px;
}

200px; or whatever looks good.
Thanks again.

Through the eyes of a newbie - I remember the very first time I saw the MM picture online, by pure accident, and clicking on numerous links that eventually brought me here.
Looking at the main forum page here, and seeing all the categories, the one and only category that I wanted to see first, was, Show your Mirror…

That was enough to convice me that I wanted to build one… so back to the Main Forum I went to see what is needed.

The only thread titles there that stood out was Hardware - Parts needed… then Modules - Software needed. Everything else, for me at least, could wait until I actually got the set up done.
Then, thats when Trouble shooting became 3rd on the list. And having to wok out the right question to ask to get the right answer needed… and quckly realising how frustrating it is work out what goes where and what keystroke to use/not use, and at what place exactly to put them, within the config.js etc…

I can only underline Mykle1’s point when he said above " I wish I would have seen such a category when I first joined the forum. It would have made a huge difference to have actually seen what a proper config looks like, and a picture of the outcome."

I’ve lost count of the number of times Ive had to search and jump in and out of numerous posts where I seen numerous helps given that shows entries to be made to config.js and some Ive simply forgot what post I seen them in, so end up asking the same question that was maybe answered several days earlier.

As an example… ( This is just a quick example that I randomly selected simply to point out how a newbie may like to see where to place the code given… as a whole, and in relation)

	module: 'clock',
		position: 'top_left',
		config: {
			displaySeconds: false,
			timezone: "America/New_York",
	                     }
      },

compared to

{
	module: 'MMM-Globe',
	position: 'bottom_center',
	config: {
	style: 'natColor',
	imageSize: 200,
	ownImagePath:'',
	updateInterval: 10*60*1000
}
},
{
	module: 'clock',
	timezone: 'America/New_York',
	position: 'top_center'
},
{
	module: 'calendar',

The latter shows me the exact position, and exactly what { } }, are needed/should be there … by seeing the whole picture I can see straight away if I have put in an extra } or }, or not.

Again, this is just what I, as a newbie, would have liked to have seen when getting help in this way, simply by seeing the soloution within the whole picture… It’s okay placing the first example when explaing to someone that has moved up a rung on the learning ladder and has already done this several times already, but through the eyes of a newbie, it’s a bit like Pinata (Mexican Donkey)

So yeah, I think having an aptly named thread, with Finished Mirrors, and attached files used, would be a great thing for a newbie to refer back to.

"You, Sir, are an absolute GENIUS! Absolutely PERFECT!

Many thanks!"

+1 I just did the same, and screen estate looks a lot better now :-)
I’ve started today making a folder and every time I see a great tip like this, I screenshot it, name it as the tip, and place into folder. ;-)

@cowboysdude

. I do however want the icon with the hat LMAO

@Mykle1 said in How to add modules. For absolute beginners.:

• Go to this page of modules:

• https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/MagicMirror²-Modules#3rd-party-modules

Hey up Amigo… You may want to update the modules page url - https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-Party-Modules

Did you format the SD to use ALL the available space, for MM? and not just allocate it a small portion?

@Stoffbeuteluwe said in MMM-Sonos - by Snille:

@johnnyboy Hi, do you know how to set the moving text (Titel / Artist) in a static text?
my fan of my Mac mini go’s up when something is moving on my screen

Sorry, no.
Since you said it was hard coded, I never bothered to play about with it.
but I turned on Mirror the other day and it is not showing anymore, so will need to find time to perhaps download it again.

Hi there Guys,
Couple of questions ifI can?

How do Idisable the interface, in order to play a video file full / partial screen, but still retaining the black background within MM… if this is how to do ithe following-----

bhelper posted in Show your Mirror, where he uses a Halloween MP4 on a loop, and he disabled the interface firstly…I’m assuming he disabled all the Modules and retained the black background?

also, would any Player work in this scenario, or will I need a specific player?

I have not done this sorta thing on MM before, so all a bit new to the setup.

Thanks

@bhepler
Really loving that … A lot!

Couple questions…

How did you disable the interface to be able to show this on it’s own? Is it still playing on MM, but with everything else stopped?

Video File?.. where did you store it and what player did you use? What is the name of the first one?

Did the player give the loop option?

Is this very CPU intensive, seeing that you disabled the MM interface?
Thanks 😉

@sdetweil
Thanks… but I managed to zoom it back down to a near enough size that it was the other week.
But unsure why this has happened on it’s own, with nobody touching anything.

And unsure as to why, even after zooming back out, that the font looks weirdly, slightly blurred… not as crisp clean as it once was.

On the Pi itself, there is a setting in Desktop prefs for Large - Medium - Small screens… to revert to Default… so tried that, for small screen, and no change in blurryness… the other 2 settings obviously enlarge things…

Soooooop, in other words - “revert to default” (what it looked like last week) does not revert it back to what it was… which is what I want… no blurry font… mods perfectly placed as I had them… and looking crisp and sharp as it did.

Gremlins at work?

Mirror not been on for over a week, just turned it on and everything was in zoom mode… MM screen, and the actual Pi desktop when I minimised MM to see if it was just MM on it’s own… so thinking this is a Pi setting??? But cannot see anything that can fix this.

Went into File, on top bar ( That bar was Huge, as was mouse pointer ) and used Zoom Out… until it looked like it was over a week ago… but it just don’t look right!
The font is kinda blurry… not a lot but you can def see ghosting as if it was blurry… not as clear as it should be. This is both MM screen and Desktop.

Anyone help me out with what could have went wrong here, and how to get it back looking proper?

I have switched it off, then on… still not looking right… reloaded… still not looking right.

No one was here to touch anything, monitor has been off but Pi still running, so i’m stumped as to why this has even happened, so I could at least have an idea of where to look for a fix.

@Stoffbeuteluwe said in MMM-Sonos - by Snille:

@johnnyboy I have bottom left and it worked well …
I think this is hard coded…i don’t know how to do some changes sorry

Thanks
Yeah I changed to bottom left and it showed… it must have a problem with bottom centre?

I then had to move it to bottom right as another module above got in the way and covered part of it, so it works there too.

But hey, it works, and works great… even without any bells and whistles.

Thanks for your time letting me know about this one. …

@sdetweil

Ahhhh… right… I will defo be giving that a look.
As you say, saves me playing around trying things in CSS and reloading mirror each time before I see if CSS worked or not… very time consuming!

Thanks again Sam… appreciate all your help.

@johnnyboy

Okay, playing around trying various combo’s, I managed this… Top one is the Header, and bottom one is the Title… Not sure why title is named as such, but?

Header is what I named as ‘‘Smart Home’’
Title is what it is named by default underneath for doors and locks.

Now, how can I name the actual items underneath? the list it compiles of my smartthings items here that was imported with the Token from Smartthings?

  }
  .MMM-Smartthings header {
  font-size: 20px;
  color: blue;
border-bottom: 2px solid blue;
}
.MMM-Smartthings {
font-size: 20px;
color: solid blue;
}

Hi Guys

I added MMM-Smartthings module to top-left… and because I have quite a lot of Smartthings items, it has produced a long list that goes all the way down the left side of my screen - covering parts of Compliments - Lower 3rd… and NewsFeed - bottom bar.

The font size is slightly larger than what I have on my callender, so wondered if reducing font size will help pull up the list? Or would this be padding or frame I need to reduce?

I also wanted to color the text on the Header, and make the Header, and bar underneath it, stand out more by size, and maybe, depending on how it looks, to have my Smartthings list colored too?

Below is what I think needs doing, but no doubt not written correctly? As Last time I did CSS on MM was a couple years back, so I’m a bit rusty, and I just tried this and it did not alter anything… So, im missing something?

Can someone help out with which bits need added to these? Or If I need to do something else to reduce length of list.

.MMM-Smartthings-Module header {
  font-size: 20px;
  color: blue;
border-bottom: blue
}

.MMM-Smartthings {
font-size: 15px;
color: blue
}

@sdetweil
For sure I was’nt knocking him… I just followed what it said - to enter that block into Config…
I’m very much a novice in this, so I just enter what I see, or be told to by members, who know far more than I… but I did say at opening post that I was unsure if there should be so many brackets at the end…

But yeah, it works brilliantly… although I have quite a lot of Smartthings items… so the list goes all down the entire side of the screen, covering Compliments - Lower 3rd, and news feed - bottom bar. … so will need to make another post to find out how to reduce the font size using CSS.

Thanks again Sam… you have helped restore my interest in MM again, with your help on several of my posts.