@in_a_days Could you check if my changes on the develop branch solve the problem?

@ChrisLaurie That is because a notification has a fixed length of time. There is no way to change the time of a notification to be displayed longer or shorter (see documentation). Maybe I should make this more clear, that the duration option only works for an alert?

Edit: @yawns was faster.

Description:

This is a module for Magic Mirror² to act based on button presses via GPIO.
It is basically a generalized version of the Button module, original idea comes from @PtrBld.
It is capable of connecting multiple buttons at once, which can be individually configured.
However it only sends out notifications to other modules.

For example this can be used to send notifications to the following modules:

• Remote Control
• Profile Switcher

Download:

[card:Jopyth/MMM-Buttons]

FAQ

Error on npm install: An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild. Unable to find electron-prebuilt’s version number, either install it or specify an explicit version

Possible Solution: Upgrade your MagicMirror 2.1.0 or higher.

Changelog

[1.0.0] - 2017-01-28

Initial release of the Buttons module.

@PointPubMedia You can connect multiple buttons to the PI.

@Brice Check this thread.

@MichMich Very nice! I like how they did not mention how many steps there are to complete. :)

Make yours today in easy steps

@trividar I moved this to a new thread. Are you running the develop branch? I am not sure what is going on here. The ics file parsing has changed recently, but I can not currently see how these changes were related to this. Maybe you can post an anonymous copy of your ics file?

@Burner911 Have you installed restarted the mirror after installation (i.e. pm2 restart mm)?

Edit: Did you install in the correct directory?

@Hein-Jan Sorry about this, forgot to mention, that the new version introduces dependencies which must be installed.

@roramirez answer should work for anyone having the same problem (thanks!).

@AAPS (and everyone else): You can try the new version, but you can also go back to a previous version afterwards with the commands:

cd MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control # or wherever you installed the Mirror and the module
git checkout v1.0.0 # or the version you want

Currently, there is v1.0.0 (which is probably the one you are on) and v1.1.0 as older versions. To check out the most recent version use git checkout master again.

@slickric Silly question, but did you npm install and restart? Forgot to mention, that an npm install is necessary when upgrading.

@thoimi It shows 1 because of the pull up resistor. Try removing that part, check my edited post above.

Edit: The 1 does not mean it is wired correctly, it just shows 1 because of the pull up resistor.

@thoimi Check for the correct wiring (PIN-Numbers can be confusing, there is the BCM numbering and the other one), also make sure GND and 5V are conncted correctly, adjust sensitivity to maximum and time to minimum (so it hopefully switch back and forth quickly), try covering up the sensor under a bowl or something and then put your hand in to test.

When I set up the sensor, I also searched for the error for hours, and at the end my problem was the sensor was plugged into pin 4 (BCM) and not 7 as I thought. Also I think you need to remove the , pull_up_down=GPIO.PUD_DOWN part (PIR example).

@sek_is_back I think this is not possible currently. However it seems like a good idea to implement.

For a work around, you could try tuning the maximum number of news items with the config option maxNewsItems (see the documentation). Since new items will be shown first, this would be a kind of way to “remove” old items.

@phrazelle In this thread we basically have the same question, so lets continue the discussion there.

Probably run sudo dpkg --configure -a?

@Makradon @kerijn I found this. I think you could save this as test.py somewhere on your Pi and see if the output changes when you move and don’t move (set the pin number in the second line) after your start it with python test.py:

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
pin = 11
GPIO.setwarnings(False)
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
GPIO.setup(pin, GPIO.IN)         #Read output from PIR motion sensor

while True:
       i=GPIO.input(pin)
       if i==0:                 #When output from motion sensor is LOW
             print "No intruders",i
             time.sleep(0.1)
       elif i==1:               #When output from motion sensor is HIGH
             print "Intruder detected",i
             time.sleep(0.1)

Also, I decided to release all the stuff I have worked on as version 1.1.0, some of it is still experimental, but I put a (hopefully) clear warning before you can mess up your config.

[1.1.0] - 2017-01-26

Added

• First version of installer script
• Menu to send Alerts and/or Notifications to your mirror
• Menu to update your MagicMirror installation and your modules (through git pull)
• Menu to change the config.js
  • Modules can be installed, added, removed, configured
  • There will be backups of the five last versions of the config.js in the config folder
  • Some of these parts are hidden behind an “exprimental” warning, do not ignore that warning
• NOTIFICATION action, see README.md for details

Changed

• Menu structure
  • Old “Edit” and “Settings” are now under “Edit view”
• Smaller font sizes in lists

Fixed

• Issues coming from disabled modules since MM version 2.1.0

@Snille I like the idea, will probably add this to my “want to do” features.