Hi,
I have been wanting to make a touch screen mirror for a while now. So today I bought an aspire z3101 all in one computer to get started (because it was cheap). I’ve been looking online for ages to see which type of touch screen it has, can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks,
Seann.

@lavolp3 I have done that :)

@lavolp3 Here :)

MMM-Console - On screen console output.

I created this module to give more of a "nerdy" feel to my mirror. Displaying the developers console log directly to the mirror.

For the moment it's quite basic. The current config only allows you to change the number of lines displayed and the color for each function.

Preview

Installation

Installation is very simple, just clone the git into your modules directory then add the module to your config.

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
git clone https://github.com/aSeann/MMM-Console

Using the module

To use this module, add the following configuration block to the modules array in the config/config.js file:

var config = {
    modules: [
        {
        	module: "MMM-Console",
        	header: "Console Output",
        	position: "bottom_left",
        	config: {
        		lines: 15,
        	}
        
        },

@sdetweil I like the sound of that! But yeah the crash part may be an issue. But in some cases the module’s just stop updating and your mirror holds the same web content?

In case anyone is interested, I have managed to get the console output from anytime after the console module is loaded.

I had an idea of outputting the developer console to the mirror window to give it more of a nerdy feel.
I have managed to get it to output to the html but I would like it to log all console output even those which say loading modules ect, does anyone have any idea how I could go about achieving this as a module?
Edit:
I should have been a little more specific, I have made an override for the Log.info function currently. It display’s to html any output after all the modules are loaded and the updatenotification is suspended.

@kazanjig If you edit the module “MMM-Unsplash” then yes. It’s a lot easier than it sounds honestly.

@emrhssla This is a common issue for most modules, most people solve the issue by adding “self = this;” as the first line of the function they require the send notification in. Personally I declare a global variable outside of the module; e.g.:

var Test;
Module.register("MMM-Test", {

then inside the start function assign it’s value to be the module.

start: function(){
Test = this;
}

then to send the notification you would just use:

Test.sendNotification(blah blah );

@xc2dn Nice work, might be good to add live currency conversion on there too ;)

@agp42 Can’t agree more, I did enjoy learning how to do it myself and already what I learned has came in handy for another module I have worked on. It’s still good to have ideas like this too.
I’m looking forward to seeing your code for sending the new URL through the control too. Keep up the good work.

@agp42 Nice work! I recently added a similar modification to MMM-Remote-Control to submit custom url’s to an iframe, however I thought it might be a little difficult for people to use. I mainly created it for youtube and after all of my work on it I realized there’s already a youtube module which allows you to connect to the mirror as a smart device.

@sdetweil Perfect, thank you! :)

@sdetweil Nevermind, received the notification now somehow. Thank you for your help.

@sdetweil Yeah I know that, but none of which are printing anything from the scripts posted above.
I did try node_helper with console.log but no output so I switched to Log.info to test that too.

@sdetweil Basically reading a folder to return all of the files contained inside. But for testing purposes I was just printing to see if the sendSocketnotification and socketNotificationReceived were actually reaching each other through each js file. I have already created the code to get each file but I had issues sending the data through socketNotifications, hence the small files I had created and sourced here to show what I had attempted.

All I actually need is for someone to assist me by pointing me in the right direction to prove that the notifications are being sent and received correctly.
Thanks for your reply.

Basically i’m trying to source information from my computer via the node_helper.js and pass it through to my module.js
I have looked through other modules to see how it’s done and I have taken the information I think is required.

my node_helper.js: https://pastebin.com/r3zddnst
my helper.js (just a development test name): https://pastebin.com/GgME83RB

Any and all help is appreciated, thanks for reading.

@44mc44 Just a suggestion, but you may want to do some research on css using w3 schools or something. The way you attempted to create your css would only work using scss. In standard css you can’t nest the declaration of styles inside of each other. (Not sure how to word it, although i’m pretty certain declaration of styles is wrong.)

@justjim1220 Seems to me like it would be your tv settings, maybe autosize the picture or change the aspect ratio. If not try changing the resolution from the computer your using to display

@siraero you could just set the css body padding to 20px or so using the custom.css file