Description

Hi all,

I just wanted to glance over my mirror and track incoming parcels, as me and my family start to be rather heavy users of Internet buying. Well heavy… but still a few parcels per week. I thought it would be nice to show the overall status on the mirror.

The MMM-AfterShip module by @Mykle1 wich used the aftership interface inspired me to reuse that interface for parcel trackings but I needed a more compact display. So I changed the output design to a visual design with less details and more visual color and icon cues for shipment status.

Alas the Dutch PostNL nor DHL provide free API’s to receiving users, but both couriers (and +400 more) are available via Aftership. ’

The Mirror module shows the parcels that you enter via your aftership account. Aftership offers a free account with free API use when you stay under 100 parcels per month via their website aftership.com.

Screenshots

There are three presentations modes ranging from moderately compact (max three lines per parcel) to compact (max two lines per parcel) to very compact (one-liner per parcel), which can be set in config. Just as languages and colors.

Examples:

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[card:martinkooij/MMM-Parcel]

@mattn and others.
I have a stable situation with the following:

• electron 1.4.15 (withELECTRON_FORCE_WINDOW_MENU_BAR=1).
  higher elektron version gives black screen, the environment variable lowers the cpu-usage by elektron considerably).
• Magic Mirror 2.3.1 (actually I was quick to install MM2.3.0 but manually downgraded electron, but I am quite sure that amounts to the same as installing MM 2.3.1).
• nodejs version v9.11.1. (I used to have a 1.6.x nodejs, but that one caused memory leaks. )

Is now running in this configuration almost 7 days without interrupt. And no signs of stopping soon. Thanks you all in this forum for the help.

(Rasberry pi 3, Jessie, CPU Hardware: BCM2835, Revision: a02082)

yes, would be possible, I think. Good idea,!

I’ll look into a compact “3”. If we exchange mailadresses can you send me a picture of your mirror, so I can understand a little bit better what you mean… Because compactness 2 should already show a 1 liner…

cheers, martin

@goprojojo Thanks! But also thanks to Aftership.com for providing the API.

The parcel names (titles in aftership-speak) are customizable via the aftership app, or via the aftership.com website (login -> trackings). Just select the shipment, click edit and enter your own title in the title field. This name will then appear on the mirror-screen. Let me know if that helps and answers your question.

@martinkooij I now (feb 2021) updated again to multi-API support (from version 3.0.0).

Aftership has (slightly) improved their commercial offerings.

iIn the MMM-Parcel config you can now easily choose between Tracktry.com (fully free) or AfterShip.com (free for legacy users, or >9$/month paid plans for new users). Screen display still works the same, except for the somewhat less detailed information that you will receive from the tracktry.com API there is no difference in the way the parcels are displayed.