@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?

@karsten13 that is exactly what I did. I like having it outside the config.js so the config.js doesn’t grow to be a huge file. And so if I mess up when I add to the compliments.json, I won’t break the entire mirror.

I’m adding a whole lot of birthdays and lots of family specific dates. I like having the remoteFile setting so I can keep this data out of config.js.

@kayakbabe Well, I haven’t played with Docker ever. I also used the #MagicMirrorOS install method because it sounded super fast and easy. That said, I discovered some things about Docker. .And in the process discovered that the compliments.json I created was being erased/deleted/disappeared every time I stopped and started the raspberry pi.

For those who don’t know anything about docker… it’s kind of like a software publishing system where make sure your production server always has the files it is supposed to have and you can throw copies of that production server out super quick. This is a super lame description… but it was the reason I couldn’t solve my path issue. Because the “copy” of MagicMirror didn’t have a compliments.json in any of the folders that I tried to put it, that compliments.json was being removed every time I started up magic mirror from that Docker instance.

So in short I redid my sd card with a manual install and didn’t use any of the alternative methods (no docker image).

I also am able to set my compliments remote file to
remoteFile: “…/…/…/config/compliments.json”
and it works great.

and I can now put it anywhere I want on the pi so long as the relative paths are correct. I can keep it from being replaced if I want to update the modules.

@jacktar said in Compliments: RemoteFile Configuration:

Just for clarity to others, a local compliments.json
file should be located in /pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/compliments/ directory and referenced using only the file name in the config file.
e.g. remoteFile: ‘compliments.json’

So… what happens if we update the compliments module? Do our customizations in the compliments.json file get wiped out?
can we put the compliments.json somewhere else to protect it?