@sdetweil , sorry - being offline for a while…
Yes, seems to work.
As you was afraid of, it takes LOOOONG until calender shows but earlier as without your suggested modification.
Thanks again!

Warmest regards,
Ralf

@sdetweil
O.K. , sorry my fault…Wrong expression from my side “first fetch” means first complete fetch (so ALL data fetched).
In addition I accidentally switched the begin and end…
So correct view is

waitFetch:  17000,  //  MM starts: 10:44:49.288   minus  complete calender fetch at: 10:45:06.206 = 16.918 ms

Sorry for my mistake.
And thanks for your explanation!
Warmest regards,
Ralf

.

@sdetweil , sorry, I didn’t get you…
what do you mean by this?

Ralf

I have set refreshinterval at 180000 - 3 Minutes.
this may triggers appearance of MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda …

I’m not able to identify the startup of MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda in the log.

If I consider the difference between Mirror-startup and first calender fetching as the “right” fetching time

[2025-01-24 10:44:49.288] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.30.0 

[2025-01-24 10:45:05.760] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 22 events from https://www.feiertage-deutschland.de/
[2025-01-24 10:45:06.206] [INFO]  Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 21 events from https://calendar.google.com/calendar

it should be around 16,9 seconds - is this the right assumption?.

At least with

waitFetch:  17000,  //  start: 0:45:06.206 -  first calender fetch: 10:44:49.288 = 16.918 ms 

MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda appears “faster” than before …

@MMRIZE @sdetweil ,
thanks for this.
I’ve played around with waitFetch which doesn’t help.
But with your justification I have to investigate deeper and find the right value.

Warmest regards,
Ralf

Dear team,
I have upgraded my monitor and so I could use a higher resolution for the screen.
Coming from 1.920x1.080 I’ve tried 2.560x1.440 which really looks great.

Unfortunately MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda (which I use for calendar representation) disappears after every single restart of the mirror.
This is true for the display itself as well as for a headless (remote) VNC session.
Interesting enough the webbrowser SHOWS the module!

After some time has passed calender appears suddenly (not sure which event this triggers).

Currently I’m clueless.
(It happens earlier that MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda disappeared after a Raspberry-Reboot but a restart of MagigMirror corrects this)

Any idea/hint from the experts?

Thanks a LOT!
Regards,
Ralf

Hi Mirror Enthusiasts,

Status update:
I’ve decided NOT to use a mirror.

As some others here I will implement this as a signage monitor and mount this in our living room at a convenient wall.

Reason for this: Our mirrors are mounted in our hallways - where we are present really seldom…

And the “mirror” is a really beauty and in addition all of the showed information is that useful that we “need” this more frequently.
So I’ve ordered a 32’’ display today and will mount this in a wooden (may baroque’esce) frame with a passepartout.
Will keep you posted.

Warmest regards,
Ralf

Addition: I forgot to mention that in the meantime the PIR sensor is here and is working after some “trouble”.
Ininitially this tiny bastard demolites my WLAN on the Raspi so I have bought a new one (Raspi).
It’s possible that there is no causality and the raspi broke for other reasons. But initially when I took power away from PIR WLAN recovers…
Today the new Raspi and PIR are living together without trouble.

Second tricky part was the justification of the sensor - there are two adjusments screws: one of them for the sensitivity and the other one for the length of signal.

First lesson: SMALL adaptions, LONG break to see the “real” behaviour.
Second lesson: Build a housing for the naked sensor.
I Printed a tiny box with a kind of funnel, housing the fresnel lens so the overall sensitivity (viewing angel) becomes lower…

Now it works reliably like a charm…

Regards,
Ralf

Hi all,
work in progress :-)
I’ve played around, tried a lot and have found a couple of additional information, worth to show up on our mirror.
I’m really happy that one of the additions is an idea of my wife - this seems like a sign of “acceptance” …
Today in the morning she states “we are looking at earth… - The moon is missing”.

Voilá -

(screenshot, not photo)

Modified: strava (less disciplines).

Added:
fuel prices (MMM-Fuel) ,
moon (MMM-MoonPhase),
a countdown to event (MMM-EventHorizon) and a
custom background (MMM-Profilepicture).

Warmest regards and much fun with your own mirror,
Ralf

Dear @wyovino ,
my shame, you are right.
To be honest, acrylic or foil are no variant for me.
In my first approach I’was thinking about 120x60cm, in the meantime I have found two existing mirrors in household - 190x80 and 150x90.
All three possible dimensions - at least for me - are candidates for glass for sure.
I’ve ordered a sample package and currently I’m figuring out which one ist the right.
For sure it will be 6mm, not sure is the brand.
I’ve sapmles from Mirropane Chrome spy which is referenced quite often in this forum.
Alternatively I have a local brand “Mirastar” which looks nice as well (nicer, to be honest :-) ).
Marketing wise (from website) Mirropane sounds “better”, but we tend (from eye’s perspective) to Mirastar.
Next step is talking to vendor - the online ordering form doesn’t allow my bigger dimensions -120x60 is maximum.

But anyway: Thanks a lot for your kind hint!

Regards,
Ralf

@sdetweil from your perspective :-)
Just had a deeper look into code and I didn’t understand that much…

@sdetweil O.K.,
if I have to change modules, I can do this at the “root” - which is the MMM-Pir …
I will at least have a closer look to the MMM-Notification module - maybe a good starting point to develop a completely new (forked) module…

Thanks for your engagement anyway!

Warm regards,
Ralf

@sdetweil Yes, sounds like a brillant idea.
But if I assign a value to this.config.ScreenStatus within the trigerPayloadFilter section the fire section isn’t working - so your thought is great but I cannot try this …

Any idea why the fire section is skipped?

THANKS for your effort!!
Ralf

@sdetweil , thanks!!!

Sounds plausible but doesn’t work :-(
I can reference this.config.ScreenStatus in the TriggerPayloadFilter.
But when I do this, the fire isn’t working (no notification broadcast appears).
In addition referencing of this.config.ScreenStatus in the fire block causes an error “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘ScreenStatus’)”…
Any direct reference in the fire block in an IF statement creates an "unecpected ‘this’ " error message …

you can see my dumb trials commented in this snippet:

		{
		  module: 'MMM-NotificationTrigger',
		  disabled: false,
		  
		  config: {
		    ScreenStatus:"INIT",

		    useWebhook: false, // If you want to activate webhook as Notification emitter, set true. (eg. IFTTT)
		    triggers:[ // Array of triggers.
		      {
		        trigger: "MMM_PIR-SCREEN_POWERSTATUS", //REQUIRED
		        triggerPayloadFilter: (payload) => { //OPTIONAL should return true or false
		          if (payload.value == 'true' ) {
		            //this.config.ScreenStatus = "on"
		            return true
		          }
		          //this.config.ScreenStatus = "off"
		            return true
		        },
		        fires: [ // Array of fires. You can enable multi-firing with one trigger.
		          {
			         /* if (this.config.ScreenStatus == 'on') {
            		  	fire: "SCREEN_IS_ON",
          			  	} else {
            			fire: "SCREEN_IS_OFF",
          			  }*/
          			//fire: this.config.ScreenStatus,
          			fire: "BROADCAST",

		          },
		        ],
		      },
		    ]
		  },
		},

I’m SO sorry…
Ralf

@sdetweil , as expected :-( I’m not able to figure this out…
I’m in the fog of instances and .this / not .this…
Can somebody guid me, please?
I’m trying to configure MMM-NotificationTrigger to send two different notifications depending on the payload.
So my idea is to evaluate payload in given payload filter, store the result in a variable and decide with this variable which fire statement is the correct one.
But I’m stuck in referencing this variable which seems to be unknown outside the trigger-evaluation part.

This currently is my (non working) approach in my config.js file:

		{
		  module: 'MMM-NotificationTrigger',
		  disabled: false,
		  config: {
		    useWebhook: false, // If you want to activate webhook as Notification emitter, set true. (eg. IFTTT)
		    triggers:[ // Array of triggers.
		      {
		        trigger: "MMM_PIR-SCREEN_POWERSTATUS", //REQUIRED
		        triggerPayloadFilter: (payload) => { //OPTIONAL should return true or false
		          if (payload.value == 'true' ) {
		            this.ScreenStatus = "on"
		            return true
		          }
		          this.ScreenStatus = "off"
		          return true
		        },
		        fires: [ // Array of fires. You can enable multi-firing with one trigger.
		          {
			         if (ScreenStatus == 'on') {
            			fire: "SCREEN_IS_ON",
          				} else {
            			fire: "SCREEN_IS_OFF",
          			}

		          },
		        ],
		      },
		    ]
		  },
		},

I’ve tried to reference Screenstatus with “payload.ScreenStatus” as well as “triggerPayloadFilter.screenstatus”, but the dot is rejected as config error in both cases.

Any tip is highly appreciated.
Sorry for being this stupid…

Warm regards,
Ralf

Dear Sam, (@sdetweil ),
as always (!) Great.
this worked - thanks a LOT!

With this little “sniffer” I was able to figure out, what happens…
It is just a rumour that MMM-Pir sends a “USER_PRESENCE” notification.
In fact there is one and only one notification “MMM_PIR-SCREEN_POWERSTATUS”.
With a little bit trial & error I was able to identify that the payload is true / false for the events “screen on” / “screen off”.
With further searches today I found @MMRIZE’s module MMM-NotificationTrigger which seems to do what I’m looking for - Tranlating SCREENPOWERSTATUS-true to FRAMELIGHT_ON and opposite.

Hopefully I can figure out how to use MMRize’s module in right manner.

Warmest regards,
Ralf
(I have to wait for LED strip - they are shipping currently)
Keep you posted.

@sdetweil awesome…

I’ve missed that, I’m so sorry!
Thanks for your effort in tutoring!

Highly appreciated!

Just another quick question - fiddling with the developer console in Chrome:
I’ve found the Application tab and there is a recorder for “notifications” but there is no notification shown up.
Any chance to debug the notifications in my config (I would like to see “sender” and “payload” …

Thanks again for your kind support!

Warmest regards,
Ralf

@sdetweil OK, thanks for this.
Any chance that there is a module around that handles “intermodule communication” - like an application broker?

If not and I got you right than my way must be to adjust a given source code which leads me in trouble with updates.

Any other idea how I can solve my problem “How can I synchronize on/off switching of a LED strip with MMM-Pir’s on/off switching of monitor”?
Thanks for any suggestion.
Ralf

Hi folks,
I’ve searched a long while and found several (some of them really old) posts regarding the “easy” question:
“How can I synchronize on/off switching of a LED strip with MMM-Pir’s on/off switching of monitor”?
None of them are “answered” to a final solution - so I currently stuck…

I’ve seen that in module MMM-Pir seems to be a notification ‘USER_PRESENCE’.
(on and off, I assume).

What I cannot figure out: Where and how I can use this?

I’ve found a LED-strip module (MMM-FrameLight) which can handle notifications but is awaiting notifications in an own format e.g. “FRAMELIGHT_ON”.

How can I fetch the PIR “event” = notification for user presens/absence (from WWW-Pir) and how can I overhand this in changed format to an other module (WWW-FrameLight)?
Or is this simple not possible or do I even make an error in my approach - will this be solved in a completely other manner?

I would like to avoid to write own code to do the same work as already given modules.

For sure there is something obvious which I currently cannot see …

(To be honest I’m FAR away from real understanding what happens inside MM and I’m an absolute beginner in JavaScript - so the above mentioned “writing code at my own” would be really hard).

Thanks for any guidance.

Ralf

For Your Information:

as per Sam’s tip I will ignore the “not prepared” message.

For the described problem I’ve chosen the “hard” (not nice) approach:
I’ve eliminated the “intelligent” approach to set color and symbol with a functional design and have “hard” coded evere single condition.

• Not brillant, but: works.
• For my perception it is even much faster to load.
  in the washup with this I finally also resolved my color problem (described in an other thread) with two very simple CSS modifications - the given guidance led to no result, I’ve T&E’rrored

.CX3A .event .title {
        color: var(--calendarColor);
}
.CX3A .event .time {
        color: var(--calendarColor);
}

as the appropriate items to set the color for singl events to the icon color.

The “hard” variant of my X3A module is now as folelows:

		{
		  module: "MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda",
		  position: "top_left", 
		  //header: "Wichtige Termine",
		  config: {
			  			eventTransformer: (ev) => {
				            if (ev.title.search("Restmüll") !== -1) {ev.isFullday = [true], ev.color = "grey" }
				            if (ev.title.search("Papier") !== -1) {ev.isFullday = [true], ev.color = "blue"}
				            if (ev.title.search("Gelber Sack") !== -1) {ev.isFullday = [true],ev.color = "yellow"}
				            if (ev.title.search("Biomüll") !== -1) {ev.isFullday = [true],ev.color = "black"}
							if (ev.title.search("Restmüll & Papier & Gelber Sack") !== -1) {ev.isFullday = [true],ev.title = "Alle Tonnen",ev.color = "fuchsia"}
							if (ev.title.search("Reise") !== -1) {ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-briefcase" ],ev.color = "cyan" }
							if (ev.title.search("Arzt") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-user-doctor" ], ev.color = "red"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Grillen") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-grill-hot" ], ev.color = "red"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Flug") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-plane" ], ev.color = "Gold"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Urlaub") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-plane" ], ev.color = "Gold"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Krankenhaus") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-hospital" ], ev.color = "red"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Fahrt") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-car" ], ev.color = "cyan"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Auto") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-car" ], ev.color = "cyan"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Hochzeit") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-heart" ], ev.color = "Gold"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Hochzeitstag") !== -1) { ev.isFullday = [true],  ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-heart" ], ev.color = "Gold"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Abendessen") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-utensils" ], ev.color = "yellow"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Restaurant") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-utensils" ], ev.color = "yellow"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Geburtstag") !== -1) { ev.isFullday = [true], ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-birthday-cake" ], ev.color = "green"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Workshop") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-screwdriver-wrench" ], ev.color = "white"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Service") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-screwdriver-wrench" ], ev.color = "green"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Friseur") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-scissors" ], ev.color = "white"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Rad") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-biking" ], ev.color = "red"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Fahrrad") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-biking" ], ev.color = "red"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Zahnarzt") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-fa-tooth" ], ev.color = "red"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Arzt") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-stethoscope" ], ev.color = "red"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Kino") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-film" ], ev.color = "blue"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Film") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-film" ], ev.color = "blue"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Training") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-book" ], ev.color = "cyan"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Party") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-ticket-simple" ], ev.color = "green"  }
							if (ev.title.search("Theater") !== -1) { ev.symbol = [ "fa-solid fa-ticket-simple" ], ev.color = "green"  }
			            return ev
				        }, // end Eventtransformer

						// useWeather: false ,
						showMiniMonthCalendar: false,
						//onlyEventDays: 10  -- Nur Tage mit terminen anzeigen ist in der custom.css eingetragen, DAS funktioniert...
						endDayIndex: 30, 
		  
		      	  } // end config CalenderExt3Agenda 

		},  // End module CalenderExt3Agenda   

It would be nice if I can get some information regarding background of the errors described above…

Regards,
Ralf