Posts made by LukeCodewalker

So here it is =)
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/986/mmm-globe

Hey guys,
here is a module for displaying live pictures of our planet on your mirror.
The pictures are taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.
It’s also possible to use custom pictures.

[card:LukeSkywalker92/MMM-Globe]

Preview:

Hope you’ll enjoy it =)

small preview =)

I’ll have to write a readme, then I’m done.
If you want to use a custom picture you just have to put your link in the config file and the module automatically uses this image.

@bibi I think you have to clone it to the modules folder. otherwise MagicMirror won’t find it. Just do it the normal way.

So I made a small test here:
[card:LukeSkywalker92/MMM-Globe]

so I could easily make the image update every x minutes and make configs for image-size and image-style just by changing the image-path.

@gizzmo this is also very interesting. It’s from the Himawari-8 satellite and almost live. there you could have very easily four different styles and you don’t need an api-key. I think your suggestions would be very complex to implement. What do you think about these pictures?

@gismo2006 sure =)

hi @bibi,
that should be no problem. I think it would be interesting to use NASA’s EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) API. There you would get two day old pictures of the globe. Here’s an example image:

You can also view the images here.

So if you would like to do that I can help you.

Displaying only an static image would not be very interesting for me.

greets Luke

Hey @gismo2006,
I think i can help you. As i started to develop MMM-DWD-WarnWeather, i used a little Pythonscript to explore the API. So if Python would be ok for you, just explain what Data should be written to your Text file and i can modify the Script for you.

So that’s how it looks now.