I’ve recently acquired a few Intel Compute Sticks and as a result am changing from a single Raspberry PI to a distributed architecture where I run the server within a Proxmox LXC and then use the Compute Stick (Windows) to connect to it.

The server side is done and running but I can’t figure out how to get the client to work.

With the “full” setup, there is the windows switch:

npm run start:windows

What’s the equivalent setting for the client only? I can’t find it in docs or forum posts. When I run

node clientonly --address x.x.x.x --port 8080

I’m getting

Error: Requires environment variable WAYLAND_DISPLAY or DISPLAY, none is provided.

Any hints greatly appreciated.

Not convinced it’s the right solution yet, but I have it working how I want it, at last.

I store my photos in Immich on an NFS mount.

I applied storage template that stores by album, then created another NFS export for that folder which I then mounted into the ./uploads folder within the MMM-ImagesPhotos module.

Because I’m running MM within an unprivileged LXC container, NFS mounts from inside the container directly are not possible, but this worked for me: I’m a link (essentially mounting to the Proxmox server, then using a bind mode to expose to the container)

Everything seems to working OK so far.

Ok, so to a large degree of this was my misunderstanding.

I hadn’t fully grasped that this is based on MMM-BackgroundSlideshow with BACKGROUND being the imperative word. The position needs to be

fullscreen_below

and the photo does span the entire screen.

It does work as designed but…I don’t really want the photo to be displayed fullscreen.

Has anybody found a way of integrating Immich-hosted photos that are bound to a region rather than full-screen?

I’m using MMM-Carousel, specifically https://github.com/shbatm/MMM-Carousel.

I’m trying to get MMM-ImmichSlideShow to work, but it just will not show any images when loaded within the Carousel.

I know that MMM-ImmichSlideSlow itself works, as when I disable MMM-Carousel images DO show (although quite large).

Has anybody had success in integrating MMM-ImmichSlideShow into a Carousel?

I’m wondering whether it’s the display size of images (??) but I cannot find any way to control display size in MMM-ImmichSlideShow.

No errors in MMM debug logs or Developer Console.

I previously used MMM-ImagesPhotos in the same carousel and that works fine, it just seems to be a problem with MMM-ImmichSlideShow.

Grateful for any pointers.

Here are the relevant parts of my config:

{
			module: 'MMM-ImmichSlideShow',
			position: 'bottom_center',
			config: {
			immichConfigs: [
				{
				apiKey: 'xxxxxx',
				url: 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx',
				mode: 'album',
				albumName: 'xxxxx',
				validImageFileExtensions: 'jpg,jpeg,png,gif,bmp,heic',
				slideshowSpeed: 30000
				}
			],
			sortImagesBy: 'taken',
			sortImagesDescending: true,
			validImageFileExtensions: 'jpg,jpeg,png,gif,bmp,heic',
			slideshowSpeed: 30000,
			backgroundSize: 'contain',
			animations: [
			'slide'
			]
			}
  		},
{
			module: "MMM-Carousel",
			position: "bottom_bar", // Required only for navigation controls
			config: {
			  transitionInterval: 0,
			  showPageIndicators: true,
			  showPageControls: true,
			  ignoreModules: ["weather", "MMM-MyBMW","calendar","clock","alert"],
			  mode: "slides",
			  slides: {
				main: ["MMM-ImmichSlideShow"],
				"Slide 2": [
					"MMM-MonthlyCalendar"
				],
			  },
			  keyBindings: {
				enabled: true,
				map: {
				  NextSlide: "ArrowRight",
				  PrevSlide: "ArrowLeft",
				  Pause: "ArrowDown",
				  Slide0: "Home"
				},
				mode: "DEFAULT"
			}
		  },
		}

@sdetweil

This is what I’ve ended up doing for now, thank you.

@sdetweil

Yup, the stick is windows-based.

Is there a :windows parameter similar to when you run the full npm start:windows?

@sdetweil said in node clientonly for Windows:

“WAYLAND_DISPLAY=”${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:=wayland-1}"

Hi Sam, many thanks.

I’m confused. I thought Wayland was a *nix-thing?
I’m trying to run the client on Windows 10.

Do I need to set this up as an Environment Variable?

I’ve recently acquired a few Intel Compute Sticks and as a result am changing from a single Raspberry PI to a distributed architecture where I run the server within a Proxmox LXC and then use the Compute Stick (Windows) to connect to it.

The server side is done and running but I can’t figure out how to get the client to work.

With the “full” setup, there is the windows switch:

npm run start:windows

What’s the equivalent setting for the client only? I can’t find it in docs or forum posts. When I run

node clientonly --address x.x.x.x --port 8080

I’m getting

Error: Requires environment variable WAYLAND_DISPLAY or DISPLAY, none is provided.

Any hints greatly appreciated.