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Markdown is not available from my Android smartphone. I don’t have the correct character available…
And it’s a little too much to ask, to look-up the character on the web, so I can copy it…

@Jopyth It would be great to be able to disable a module on startup, so you can enable it later with the remote control. Or even better: have a ‘save settings’ option on the remote control, so you can make the disabled modules stick after a reboot/reload.

I did sudo apt-get install omxplayer and included a video using <video> tags in the helloworld module.
It works great!

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@Jopyth I think this is a really cool module! Thank you!

[EDIT: Nevermind… Wrong thread and I didn’t restart. Works great!]

@Jopyth How about the helloworld module just to add the needed html tags to display video?
(Obviously just for testing purposes…)

@Jopyth I have found something that’s exactly that:
A ghost, doing scary stuff, fading in and out on a black background and that stays mostly within an invisible portrait frame…

Unfortunately it’s not free, so I can’t share it…
But if we have some sort of video player we can use, I would certainly love to try to get it to work…
I tried MMM-Podcast, but realised it needs a button, wired to the Pi and I don’t have nor want that…

@shashank If you run the facetrainer (capture.py and train.py) first, you should know what to enter here…

@rvdgeer OK, replying to my own post for future reference:

I got it working by doing the following:

• cropped the pictures to only show my face;
• copied the cropped pictures and transformed them to greyscale;
• copied the grey pictures and upped the contact;
• moved all pictures (originals and copies) to a direct sub folder of the facetrainer folder;
• started the capture.py, pressed 2, entered my name, entered the name of the sub folder (only the sub folder, not the entire path) and waited.

This way I got it to recognize about 10 of the pictures…
Not bad!

Getting it to recognize me is still not easy, but that because of the lighting conditions in my ManCave where I’m putting it together.

@rajbadri Have you added the classes: (with a value) to all the other modules in the config.js? If you get a plain black screen without errors it might be that no modules were loaded.

Very nice module.
However I keep ruinning into the same error when I try capture.py to convert them to pgm files:
Could not detect single face!

I’ve taken ‘selfies’ with different camera’s in different lighting conditions, but not even one is good enough to convert into a pgm file…
Can you please give me some clues on what conditions my pictures have to meet?
Am I doing something wrong?
All help and advice appreciated!