you can’t install in Desktop… its protected…

use your home folder… then make a shortcut to start the mirror

i got an api key the other day without any trouble. just have to login and go to key settings…

https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs

thanks… not a nodejs developer generally, so didn’t know about the npmjs site…

also, i run the MM on an ODROID not PI. a lot faster.

i understand how ws works… i built a custom ws server and interface in front of an api emulation platform to support software testing a couple years ago.

thanks… the image is not shown in the dom, it is shown in a separate ‘browserwindow’, floating over the dom. i just loadUrl the image into the window, after creating and positioning it.
the mirror code doesn’t know the images are there

pictorial calendar reminders.

I have tested that the helper needs to do all this window mgmt

The scheduler module does scheduling (compare db data to calendar entries), start/stop viewer(s), and provide indirect services to load images depending on their source (file, dropbox, google drive, one drive).

The viewer module just walks thru a list of urls (getNext()) and opens a window hidden, loads image, hides old window, shows new window, deletes old window. (avoid dead window during load and, minimize screen flash)

yeh, but all this notification event handling really messes up the code i have which is all angular promise based.

I want to open my own browserwindow (show image), but u can’t do that in a module, only in a helper,
but then the window handle object needs to be stored inside the object which is managing the list of images for this ‘viewer’. that object is stored in the module… so, how do I transport the window handle object to the module… is the object valid in the other context (helper vs module).

see the topic ‘what can i do in a module’. (which u already have)

@idoodler

do you have any pointers to examples of websockets from the module? or your “other JS code” means some OTHER library of JS code…

looks like I would have to build another js class to wrap the ws services…(run the server side in the helper) cause I can’t require() in the module itself… load those classes via the scripts…

cool… that would allow my components to communicate in a synchronous mode…

not class variable (I got that now), but shared would solve a ton of problems.

the question was, how do you KNOW that music is playing? what code tells u?

I would expect the spotify playing module to do a sendNotification(“spotify_Playing”,something);

so that other modules might know… it does not do that (looking at the code)…

you could fork the existing code and add the 2 lines (one playing, one not) of code and submit an enhancement (pull) request to the module owner…