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and another question I have 20 modules installed in the modules folder… but only 2 are active that have package.json files. should we upgrade ALL of them? or only the active ones…(with disabled: false) I suspect that most of the time, the list will be the same either way. mine is weird cause I help others with module problems by installing them myself (and don’t erase for a while) one point to note here to get JUST the enabled ones, we need to run a tiny javascript file, (so it will take two files) otherwise we can do this all in bash

@sdetweil Ok, copied the node_modules/electron folder tree from the good working install to replace the bad… and now the bad behaves…

@Stoffbeuteluwe but not the new script? just checking…

there is a new alexa skill to view the live feed from a ring (doorbell, floodlight) camera… on an Echo Show… I’d like to put that on my MM…

SO, the workaround… NEVER call updateDom() without a minimum count of 2 (as the code divides by 2 inside) it does a hide/update/show) (hide/show each get 1/2 the time specified, ie 2/2 =1 each.

SO… the problem is the calculation uses the local hour to determine from now… but users see days… so the fix is to truncate NOW to the start of the day…, then the comparison is start of day to start of day… instead of this // uses hours/mins/seconds of now.. timeWrapper.innerHTML = this.capFirst(moment(event.startDate, “x”).fromNow()); do this // uses only date, time is 00:00:00, fullday events also start at 00:00:00 timeWrapper.innerHTML = this.capFirst(moment(event.startDate, "x").from(moment().format("YYYYMMDD")));

@sdetweil said in access to config language setting: @strawberry-3-141 cool, thanks The kid knows his stuff! He’s a good guy! Matter of fact he gave me this to add to my module if it’s of any help I use this under the start: function() this.config.lang = this.config.lang || config.language; //automatically overrides and sets language :) this.config.units = this.config.units || config.units;

@lavolp3 i do not… there are tons of options, which I guess you would expect.

we see a LOT of new users having trouble with unintended syntax errors in config.js. they don’t know, and MM is running happily without their changes… so, I want to propose adding the call to tests/configs/check_config.js as part of the error handling… this was easy, except… MM keeps running with the default config… which it shouldn’t… I’ve tried all kind of things… process.exit(0); is quick death… except the output of the tests/configs/check_config.js isn’t flushed, so the messages don’t show up… they took out process.stdout.flush() a long time ago… none of the workarounds appear to work… anyone got any ideas? thanks…

@mykle1 there is no better thought motivator than posting on a live forum…!!

My mobile does not have block popups turned on

Using the fullscreens.above class for the div makes this a lot easier. No modification of the std css is required

@sdetweil well, that was easy and works great!.. gotta figure out how to have a div with a fill color to replace the black edges when the pics are not fulls screen. also the bottom edge of the pic is clipped by the bottom of the screen somehow… half the newsfeed line is over the clip line

I’d recommend trying to do it again using the description by MichMich https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror It is crystal clear from what I see, also describes what to do. "the doc for ‘pm2 startup’ doesn’t help me… ‘will give you the command u need to execute’ execute when, how? if unattended, who is ‘you’?" No offense, but btoh the doc and your terminal will show you exactly what to do. Copy a line of text the terminal throws out and execute it again. That’s the reason I’d suggest to do it again with a bit more patience.

well, i found a solution… I modified the ImagePhotos.js to create the div once. instead of each time. this reduces the flash. added an onload handler for the image in the div., start with the image hidden the onload handler changes the just loaded image to the required opacity and transitions this over 1.25 seconds. also getting current image size, and size of screen and adjusting to not clip or zoom it then checks to see if there is more than ONE image in the div (current and just loaded)… if so, it hides the old image, and then deletes that image from the div. repeat for next image.

@elleclouds ok… the motion module needs a video device… run these two commands sudo apt-get install v4l-utils v4l2-ctl --list-devices find the ‘camera’ device in the list mine shows odroid@odroid:~/MagicMirror$ v4l2-ctl --list-devices s5p-mfc-dec (platform:11000000.codec): /dev/video10 /dev/video11 s5p-jpeg encoder (platform:11f50000.jpeg): /dev/video30 /dev/video31 s5p-jpeg encoder (platform:11f60000.jpeg): /dev/video32 /dev/video33 exynos-gsc gscaler (platform:13e00000.video-scaler): /dev/video20 exynos-gsc gscaler (platform:13e10000.video-scaler): /dev/video21 UVC Camera (046d:0825) (usb-xhci-hcd.3.auto-1.2): /dev/video0 the last is the camera… so, in the motion.conf, set the line videodevice to the value returned for the camera, in my case /dev/video0 # Videodevice to be used for capturing (default /dev/video0) # for FreeBSD default is /dev/bktr0 videodevice /dev/video0 after changing the config file either do ps -ef | grep motion get the process id (pid) use below kill -s SIGHUP pid mine is odroid@odroid:~/MagicMirror$ ps -ef | grep motion root 7756 1 0 Mar08 ? 00:14:21 motion pid = 7756 or reboot

this fix is now added to the develop branch, and will be merged to master at some time. Thanks Mitch

@sean said in how to detect main window size via code: clientHeight thanks… duh, so easy!..

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)

@sdetweil Glad I could help you!