@fribse it’s not in the mirror config. you have to change the rasperrypi’s actual configuration

@MagicBeginner I actually think the mm will work great… provided that you have a way to access the data you want to display.

For example, my company uses SAGE 500 ERP and it does have an api that we can connect to and get info. The downside is that the person handing the SAGE 500 programming must create that api point.

If the company you are working for has that capability, then you can display whatever data they want you too. JSON is pretty easy with the mirror modules. You’ll just have to build a module for it. And there are lots of third party modules that you can dig into for examples of how to do that.

If they don’t already have some kind of ERP or CMS sytem already (which would make the most sense for them to enter and keep a database of historical information in) then you’ll have to build that for them too. Though you probably won’t want to do all this on a raspberry pi, the sd cards can get corrupted and all the data will be gone.

You have some choices to make about it and how serious they are about historical data tracking could impact the cost of the project for them. (reliable server, backups, automated backups, etc)

@D3dl3g if you get a free api key from openweathermap and then you can test with a known weather api that we all know works. (openweathermap works for me ). then you’ll narrow down the possibilities of why your particular setup isn’t working. 1) if it is the way you have installed the module, or 2) if the problem is with the weather endpoint you are trying to use. 3) maybe the uk weather api isn’t availble to you if you aren’t physically in the uk, 4) something else…

but getting the module working first in a known working configuration… will narrow down a lot of possibilities. it doesn’t mean that you can’t use the api you want later (unless that’s the issue).

I was at microcenter and bought a pimoroni inky touchscreen just to play with.

I’ve been fighting with teh MMM-flick-gesture module trying to add the airwheel gestures and learned I need to learn a lot more…

Since the pisupply Flick would be hanging below the mirror anyway… I’m thinking the inky display might be a better thing to use instead. And… it could display some things when the mirror is blacked out, and when the mirror is displaying, it could show instructions on how to use it to control the mirror pages and module.

I think I might be going down a rabbit hole.

I’m wondering if anyone has setup an inky display magic mirror. Have you?

@Radu_Stancu I would really like to have a copy of your module. I’ve been working with the code you posted at the beginning of this topic thread and I’ve gotten tap added. But the wheel just crashes my flick. I’m building a mirror for my Dad and I’d like to surprise him with one he can control with the flick. It would really impress him.

I hope you are still checking in on this magicmirror builders forum.

That’s really cool! I love the magnets to hold the cover over the hardware.

@drphil02 Well, you bought a Dakboard. You don’t buy a MagicMirror. MagicMirror is opensource and community supported, there isn’t a manufacturer. I suspect the Dakboard will always be more limited because they want to keep it simple to maintain and update. Less complication means it will support more people with LOTS less work to maintain and integrate updates as the third parties change their data formats and api’s.

Mich who made the MagicMirror and is spreading his joy and fun by making it available to anyone who wants it. Dakboard is actually profiting off of Mich’s project’s popularity by building and selling a very similar project as a “finished” item. I kinda doubt that without Mich in the first place a lot of these clones wouldn’t be out there in the world.

Since no one is making money of this… it isn’t ever going to be like what you want. Unless someone really really wants it, codes it and then decides to share their code. I am happy tinkering with MagicMirror, but if you want to step up and build the admin interface you are talking about… I’d give it a whirl. I’d be excited to. Go for it!

There is a great community behind the MagicMirror and people like Sam really have helped keep it alive. He’s on here everyday almost. I haven’t seen very many commercial electronics products last that long and still have active users.

@sdetweil I got it! That makes even more sense! Thanks!

@sdetweil I finally got it! Your hint on another forum post plus this… finally made sense to me after I stared at it a while.

for anyone else…

1. The pages module works on class names not actual module names.
2. MagicMirror uses the module name as the default css class for that module.
3. you don’t have to use the default class name in the pages module config, you can use the additional class you gave it instead.

so parts of my config now look like this:

{	
			module: "weather",
			classes: "nbweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				weatherProvider: "openweathermap", 
				type: "current",
				location: "New Braunfels",
				locationID: "4714131", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
				apiKey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "weather",
			classes: "nbweather",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
				type: "forecast",
				colored: true,
				showPrecipitationAmount: true,
				location: "New Braunfels",
				locationID: "4714131", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
				apiKey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
			}
		},
		{	
			module: "weather",
			position: "top_right",
			classes: "altusweather",
			header: "Altus Weather",
			config: {
				weatherProvider: "openweathermap", 
				type: "current",
				location: "Altus",
				locationID: "4529292", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
				apiKey: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
			}
		},

and the config section for my pages module looks like this:

		module: 'MMM-pages',
		config: {
				modules:
					[[ "clock", "calendar", "nbweather", "compliments"],
					 [ "clock","MMM-SolarPicture","MMM-APOD","MMM-NewsAPI"],
					 [ "altusweather","MMM-MyScoreboard"]
					],

As you can see I used the class I gave each instance of the module instead of the module’s default class name.

Re: Default Modules

I found that I can use the new weather module many times for different locations.
I"m building a mirror for my Dad and he likes to watch the weather in different cities where his family members are located.

I would like to be able to do this on different “pages” using the pages module. I setup a PiSupply Flick Large to do the page incrementing and it’s working great. So, ideally I’d have his local weather on page 1 and on page 2 have about five weather locations for the family.

How would I do this? Would I have to copy and rename the weather module?