Being an IT Director and the stress/frustration that comes with that, I tend to let my creativity run wild at times. At any given point I will have several projects going at the same time, and listing them would just end up in a rather long laundry list of things. There are just too many to list, but my first “public” appearance was in 1998 when I got my name in the release notes for the popular Sendmail MTA. It still amuses me when I see it:

8.9.2/8.9.2     1998/12/30
...
Portability:
                ...
                Avoid a clash with IRIX 6.2 getopt.h and the UserDatabase
                        option structure.  Problem noted by Ashley M.
                        Kirchner of Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.

After that it all went downhill for me. Created a small search engine for a start-up stock agency years ago (they’ve since been bought by another.) Wrote an entire front and back-end for an eCommerce web site at my office, none of that ‘off the shelf’ stuff, all custom programming in PHP & JS. Several, I mean, several little coding projects here and there.

I’ve always done a lot of photography (still do). That’s always part of me, wherever I go. Being able to see something and make it artistic is always fun.

Recent years though (like the last 7 or so), I’ve been doing a lot of LED electronics, as in building my own electronics and coding. One of the more fun ones is a POV “stick” that I made 3 years ago. Basically two acrylic tubes filled with LEDs, control unit, and power cell battery. The artist would spin them around and display colorful images. This is me spinning one of them during testing, standing in my living room at night:

And the “fun” part of creating that, the electrical design, hardware design, building electronics, and let’s not forget the coding too:

Created lighting units for the high school my daughter attended for various different performances. Added lights to color guard flags (and they went on to win 2nd place that year.)

I also do a lot of 3D design and printing with my 3D printer. Or even larger design “things” like these costumes for a little boy:

Created a bunch of different things for the local Ingress community, stuff that gets sold, or given away as prizes. I’ve also done some designs that were made in metal afterwards (earrings and necklace pendants.)

Then there’s the laser cutter which gets used almost daily for a variety of things:

Some with color airbrushed on:

There are many days i will simply sit down and think of the various things going on at the same time in my house and in my head and all I do is:

> opens nearby dictionary, flips to ‘politics’, grabs red pen and writes /* ... */ around definition <

YEP! Still works! :)

I wasn’t referring to the actual module files. I’m talking simply editing the config.js file and comment the specific module’s config section out.

Right, we have two different requests here. One is to display a simple, empty calendar, and another to display an actual Google Calendar with contents.

I can also verify this as I just setup a brand new rPi yesterday. Downloaded a fresh copy of jessie, booted up the rPi, did the setup for it, made sure all apps were up to date (with 'sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade' then installed MM as per the wiki’s instructions. Done.

May I suggest you add a section on how to actually connect the LED strips to the pi, which pins, etc.? Not everyone is as technical as some of us … :)

Basically the pulled a MacGyver then … :)

I have a 27" monitor (rotated vertical) on my desk that has MM running on it. It’s my development rig. No mirror, really, I don’t need to be staring at my face the whole time. So that aspect is obviously doable.

As for having the other information, Bitcoin, weather, others, those are all things that can be integrated, so long as you have the software written for it to interface with MM’s module mechanism. Anything’s possible.

As for the touch screen part, that’s between the monitor and the Raspberry Pi. MM (or any other software you run) doesn’t have anything to do with that part. So your first point to research is how to make the touchscreen work on the rpi. Are there drivers for it? How does it interface, etc., etc. But more importantly, have you tried just plugging it in, see if it doesn’t “just work” already?

Awesome, glad things are working out and you’re able to configure it the way you want to. As for the mirror … you can always get a larger mirror. :)

Couple of things:

• Are you using a proper power supply for the pi? You want something that can provide at least 2Amps.
• Is the rPi very hot? Do you have it in a sealed box with little air flow?
• Have you checked the file system itself on the card? One method is to issue a forced check upon a reboot with 'sudo shutdown -F -r now' - After the reboot, look the results in '/var/log/fsck/'. If for some reason that fails when you type it in, you can try adding 'fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=yes' to /boot/cmdline.txtand reboot the pi. That will force a file system check upon start up and you can watch to see if there are errors.
• Failing that, you can always move all of your modules onto a different computer (or in the cloud somewhere), rebuild the pi from a fresh image, and try it again, see what happens.

Errr, in your package.json you have a reference to Wunderlist module in the description.

You can easily have another module (module_scheduler?) keep track of time and when require, it can call another module’s .hide() or .show() routine. And you’d want to check on the other module every so often, in case the mirror restarted and re-displayed it.

At the moment, the module only does one at a time. If you’d like it to do more, you’ll have to write your own module. We welcome pull requests on modified versions of the defaults.

@MichMich, oooooh. I was about to start a new topic and demand access to those 'frowned' modules! :)

Feel free to create PR and submit it against the 'develop' branch so it can be checked out and incorporated is possible.

@4Flat4Life said in Got everything today... Now about Touch...:

Go figure, this is actually a pretty shitty forum.

Running Windows 7 Ultimate.

“Shitty” because you are running a platform that is not supported. You are asking questions specific to your needs, that no one else knows about. It’s unsupported, you can’t expect anyone to give you a solution if they don’t have an answer for you.

If you want proper support, a) change your attitude, and b) read the documentation, specifically the part where it clearly states it’s designed to run on a Raspberri Pi version 2 or 3.

Reality is, this forum has a ton of people who are offering all kinds of support, in various areas.

@MichMich, it is, by default, B/W. Users can set a custom CSS to change the colors, like I did as a test.

Taking this topic back to the storage question above, I did a fresh install on another rPi-3 and captured some info. One a stock Raspbian Jessie, running on an 8G card, with all apps updated, nothing removed, once you have MM up and running, you’re looking at the following for storage:

Now, since you’re likely to only use this for MM and nothing else, there’s no sense in leaving all of the other apps on it that are pre-installed. So, I removed some of the big ones:

wolfram-engine
scratch
nu-scratch
sonic-pi
idle3
smartsim
penguinspuzzle
java-common
minecraft-pi
python-minecraftpi
python3-minecraftpi
libreoffice*

And after running autoremove as well, which cleared even more space removing other unneeded apps, you’re down to this:

That’s 1.3G worth of storage that I just cleared up. So unless you need a larger SD card for other stuff, an 8G works just fine. Potentially even a 4G. You’ll still have plenty of room left after you clean up the installation.

Another option is to start with Raspbian Jessie-lite on a 4G card, but then you have to install the X server, desktop environment, and a login manager yourself. Assuming you get it all done correctly, you’ll end up with a very light weight installation of the OS, taking up only 53% of storage (remember, 4G card), with MM running lean and clean on top of that. I did try that as well but ran into issues with electron.js and for the time involved, knowing I wasn’t going to run it on there, it wasn’t worth continuing. I will leave that as an exercise to the brave.

Because the various styles have an explicit color (white), you can’t simply set a color on the main class. However what you can do is set it on one of the elements, like 'TD':

.calendar td {
  color: #ff0000;
}

Not to mention a fast processor to be able to process the video and change colors on the fly like that.

It won’t be the “default” style, but the config will set it as 'default'. The reason is because the actual 'styleDefault.css' file needs to be clean and not have anything in it other than setting the proper margin, padding, and table/cell views for the calendar and it gets included always. Custom CSS files are pulled in on top of that. That way, the user doesn’t need to set any of that themselves, but rather just over ride what they want with their own styles. So I can have a 'styleMichMich' [*] that I can set as the default style to have today highlighted in a white box.

[*] actual name to be determined still …

Never mind, went a slightly different route …