My first module. A module that shows school lunch menus in Sweden from www.skolmaten.se.
Basically it justs shows an RSS feed, but is very simple / has minimal configuration that works ok with the school lunch rss feeds.
https://github.com/retroflex/MMM-Skolmaten
Looks really nice!!
Tip: as a Swede with kids, you might be interested in my school lunch module: https://github.com/retroflex/MMM-Skolmaten
A MagicMirror² module that shows a different text (or image or anything really) each week. I use it for my son who is learning to read and has “letter of the week” in school each week. But I guess there are more use cases.
Thanks to Sean for writing the actual code 
…or soccer if you prefer
Allsvenskan is the top league in Sweden. I tested all other existing modules, but there were no that included free access to Allsvenskan. So I made my own module.
There is no direct API for Allsvenskan, so this module uses the open Text TV API and scrapes the HTML it generates. Not ideal, but it works (for now).
Setup a VPN server at her place, then you can safely access everything. IMO, it seems overly complex to relay warnings etc. She can just call you when things doesn’t work.
I haven’t tried MMM-Admin, but with SSH you can do anything, so I would just go for that.
The only thing that you cannot solve is if the raspberry falls off the network. Then you have to reboot locally. Or simple option: pull the plug. But if you pull the plug while writing to the SD card, strange things can happen…
How about seting up a google account and add the birthdays to the google calendar as recurring events. Then use the default calendar module to show it?
@Henrik said in [MMM-Skolmaten] Shows school lunch menus in Sweden from skolmaten.se:
@retroflex Sure, if you add me to the repo I’ll have a look. Github username is HenrikL6.
Added you as a collaborator to the repo. I’m new to git so let me know if there’s anything else I must do. Follow up question: is it better to be a collaborator than to send pull requests? Or maybe just easier?
Welcome to the magic mirror world!
I built one mostly because it was a fun project that is both useful and makes you learn new things at the same time.
Much more than I though it would do! My whole family uses it, especially to check the family calendar. I don’t know how we could keep track of all dates before. The second most used thing are the soccer training calenders for my kids. The team provides ical links, so those are updated automatically. Third most used module is the lunch menu for my kid’s shool. Then I have a bunch of other modules that I don’t look at that much. But for example it’s nice to be able to quickly get an overview of the days of the month and see the week number.
Maybe not norm, but very common. The release of google hub and similar hints that a home display might be the future.
If I would build one again, I might opt for just a screen without the mirror glass. I never use it as a mirror as I prefer the full body mirror that we already had from before. A regular mirror will always have a bit better reflection (unless you buy a crazy expesive OLED screen). This is because the back-light of the screen lights up the entire mirror from behind, even if the screen is black. You notice this the most when it’s dark where the mirror is. Also I want to fill up the entire screen with useful info, so there’s no space left for the actual mirror. Altough it has a certain wow factor. So my tips would be…
Where are you located? Depending on where, there might be open API’s that gives you access to local services like which day the trash is emptied etc.
Also took a quick look and found this:
https://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/api.php#soleclipse
@Henrik I had a quick look now and the exception seems to indicate that Parser cannot be found. Perhaps rss-parser package isn’t properly installed. Just to make sure: did you run “npm install” in the MMM-Skolmaten folder? Can you check if rss-parser is installed on your mirror?
@MilkShake Isn’t the mirror on the same LAN? In that case you don’t have to do any port forwards.
@evroom Yeah, you’re right. It will boot from SD first and then USB if you have enabled USB boot. So there’s really nothing that will screw up by enabling the one time change. Here’s more info:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=225812
That also says the newer RPi3+ has enabled USB boot by default.
I run an SSD with my Pi 3B. Regarding the one time thing, it means it will always try to boot from USB first but if it doesn’t find a bootable USB device, it will boot from SD card instead. Disclaimer: this is what I’ve read, I have not tested myself.
I also remember that there were some issues with USB booting and Pi 4. Don’t know whether that has been resolved.
@Jalibu Awesome, thanks! I will add it to my mirror.
@Jalibu Any chance you will add it again and an option to choose between the two?
I wanted to suggest this optional source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wotd/feed/rss2
But then I saw you used that before and switched to Oxford learner dictionary. How come you switched?
I also had an idea on not adding many modules and keeping it clean. But then I kept adding useful modules as time passed. And I never use it as a mirror because a regular mirror is slightly better. Mine is 24". Bigger would definitely be ok, but smaller would be too small imo.
@Lordy Maybe this:
.mmm-suncalc table {
font-size: 30px
}
Tip: You can use developer tools in the browser to check elements and change styles.
@Lordy Where does “text” come from? Try:
.mmm-suncalc {
font-size: 30px
}
@MathieuGery Maybe 0.0.0.0/0 would work. Or a few others to test like these: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59660664