@sdetweil Sam, Thanks for the pointer. I looked for the instructions but missed them some how. Tried to install a different image yesterday but it crashed with missing files. I’ll let you know how this works out for me. I’m practicing right now before I try to do it on my RPI5.

Hi, I’m trying to get MM to run on Docker. Right now I’m practicing on my laptop. I have Docker installed and working and have been through the start of their tutorial. I’m trying to figure out how to download the image from https://github.com/khassel/magicmirror which appears to be the best one of the list I found. I tried Docker pull and got an error: invalid reference format. I cloned the image to my computer and tried to run build but it failed because of no dockerfile. I haven’t the least idea what base image it would use or any dependencies needed.

I’m new fairly new to MM and want to put it on an RPI5 with a 256Gb SSD, planning on running as ServerOnly, so I want to use docker to be able to do something beside run MM like maybe a small NAS. I know I’m pushing my envelope but at my age, 79, I’m not sure how much envelope I have left.

Any helpful hints are greatly appreciated.

Ron R

Sam, here is the URL origin https://github.com/justjim1220/MMM-NewsFeedTicker (fetch)

It was my bad for trying to shorten the title by leaving off the MMM-. Sorry won’t do that again.

Here is the config I am using:

{
    module: "MMM-NewsFeedTicker",
    position: "bottom_bar",
    //classes: "day_scheduler",
    config: {
      feeds: [

        {
          title: "WFTS News",
          url: "https://www.abcactionnews.com/news.rss",
          customLogo: "wftslogo.png"
        },
	{
          title: "WFTS Local News",
          url: "https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news.rss",
          customLogo: "wftslogoSm.png"
        }
      ]
    }
   },

I appreciate your help. I just want to display the headline and not the start of the article. But I have not seen anything that I recognize as controlling that as a feature.

I’m using NewFeedTicker for my local news RSS feed. Is there a way to get just the headlines and not the start of the article? I’m still trying to figure out some of the timing and would prefer to see more headlines and less from the actual articles. I don’t see anything about it on the github page. Any suggestions are welcome. THX

OK, that helps make sense now.

Thanks

Sam,
I’m not trying to be difficult but you suggest I delete the config/electron directory? Does the system reconstruct that directory when MM is restarted?

As for the electronOptions {X: 1680} do I use the width of the monitor I want MM displayed on or is it the monitor I do not want it displayed on. The larger monitor has a width of 1920.

Sorry I don’t mean to be so dense but I want to understand what I’m doing.

Thanks

Yes, the desktop is spread over both monitors. The bar is on the little monitor and the big monitor only has wallpaper until MM loads at boot. When I restart MM it moves to the small monitor leaving the big one with just wall paper.

Thanks Sam, I have a smaller Dell monitor that I use for working and the 32" Philips TV/Monitor connected via HDMI. I want the large screen to have MagicMirror on it all the time but if I make a config change it restarts and put MM on the smaller Dell monitor. I do not understand the errors it is creating as I know literally nothing about java script.

Posting pictures on MM was something I am doing also. I’m using sdetweil
MMM-ImagesPhotos from third party modules. It was easy to setup and works well. You have to store your images in a local directory inside the module. It has several options available which I have not looked into yet. Just set it up yesterday.

I’ve just started with MM and am trying to use our TV, as the main monitor for Magic Mirror. I have tried to understand the information I have found online but when I implement it it fails. The docs say to add electronOpitions {x: 1920} to the config.js file.
Here is the start of my config.js file:

let config = {
electronOptions: {x: 1680},
address: “localhost”, // Address to listen on, can be:

Naturally there is comments before this and a whole lot after it but this is what I understand was to be added. The 1680 is the width of my smaller, 21", monitor as reported by the RPI display information. My other monitor is 1920.

It was my impression that the X: 1680 would keep MM from using that monitor and force it to the larger on. When it didn’t happen like I thought it should I looked at the error log and discovered there is some error I have not been able to resolve. Error log follows:

0|MagicMir |
0|MagicMir | [1387:0731/194921.175901:ERROR:ui/events/platform/wayland/wayland_event_watcher.cc:47] libwayland: wl_shm_pool#47 still attached
0|MagicMir |
0|MagicMir | [2846:0731/195036.124888:ERROR:ui/events/platform/wayland/wayland_event_watcher.cc:78] Fatal Wayland communication error: Broken pipe.
0|MagicMir | [2846:0731/195036.125228:FATAL:electron/shell/browser/electron_browser_main_parts.cc:502] Failed to shutdown.
0|MagicMir | [1395:0801/090349.588565:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_data_drag_controller.cc:161] Invalid state when trying to start drag. source=kMouse
0|MagicMir | /home/ron/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGINT
0|MagicMir | Gdk-Message: 09:06:17.724: Error reading events from display: Broken pipe
0|MagicMir | /home/ron/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGINT
0|MagicMir | [2025-08-01 15:00:38.013] [ERROR] Your configuration file contains syntax errors :(
0|MagicMir | Line 12 column 34: Parsing error: Unexpected token height

I copied everything from where the errors start down to the line for electronOptions the last line above is what I’m having trouble comprehending.
I have researched the error message and not found anything that made sense to me. The errors about that I have no idea what they mean. If someone could explain why the electronOptions is failing I would be happy. It is a direct copy from what I found online. I also tried the width: Height: suggestion I found but that didn’t help either.

One other little thing that happens is if I reboot the computer, RPI 4, MM comes up on the monitor I want. If I restart MM after making a change to config.js it comes up on the smaller monitor, the only way to get it back to the larger one is to reboot the computer.

Thanks for sticking with me for this long message. I appreciate any and all help.

Ron R