@sdetweil Dear Sir, you are a genius, i finally got it working. Surely it was an install issue. Using your installation script, and in the past 2 hours i have already inculcated 4 third party modules, and all seems to be working. I might have a question or two later tomorrow when i make more progress, but for now, the main issue is resolved.

@bhepler
Thanks for this tip. Came looking for this, and found your post.

The ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array is currently out of stock everywhere. Spent quite a while researching on the forum and elsewhere, before posting this. I believe it’s one of the best microphones for MM integration with voice control. Are there any similar or better alternatives available?

Look at the calendar items on the left hand side of the screenshot for reminders and appointments, and national holidays, also ecobee module. I just added the glassy effect on the items that are hard to read

I will further tweak the look of the layer so to make it look smart and classy

@sdetweil said in nhancing Text Readability on Bright Wallpapers: Adding Background Textures or Boxes with CSS?:

@Socrates maybe invert
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter-function/invert

i dont know if its live or at draw time assuming a stable background

mixed blend mode sounds better
https://css-tricks.com/reverse-text-color-mix-blend-mode/

Hello and Good Evening Sam, thanks for looking into my posts and helping with your valuable tips as always.
I found something that might interest you too.
Check out
MMM-Glassy module.
https://github.com/bugsounet/MMM-Glassy

I was able to achieve this. In this module u dont need to add css layers for each module, they will automatically show up in all the modules u have. Infact you can add exceptions to which u dont want the mmm-glassy module wrap around the module.

This is how i did it.

{
  module: "MMM-Glassy",
  disabled: false,
  config: {
    debug: false,
    ignoreModules: ["MMM-Worldclock","MMM-Remote-Control","MMM-OpenmapWeather","MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast","MMM-Mov>
    modulePadding: "10px",
    moduleRadius: "10px",
    moduleShadow: "5px",
    moduleBackgroundRGB: "0,0,0",
    moduleBackgroundOpacity: "15%",
    moduleBorderRGB: "255,255,255",
    moduleBorderOpacity: "10%",
    moduleShadowOffsetX: "-5px",
    moduleShadowOffsetY: "-5px",
    moduleShadowBlur: "8px",
    moduleShadowColor: "black",
    moduleBlur: "5px",
    moduleSpacing: "15px",
    mirrorMargin: "10px",
    mirrorBackground: false,
    mirrorBackgroundOnSuspend: true
  }
},

Hopefully its ok to necro bump this topic instead of opening a new thread, as this is the official module page?
The module was working fine until few days back since seeral years, but now it has stopped working. I have regenerated a new api key from tmdb, yet no luck.

How can I add a texture behind the module to ensure readability against bright wallpapers? I’m using the Unsplash module, which offers many attractive wallpapers, but I often have to choose the darkest ones for the white text to be visible. Can this be achieved through CSS? Do I need to write CSS for each module individually, or is there a way to automatically add a texture or box behind every module?

@bhepler
Thanks for this tip. Came looking for this, and found your post.

I love the idea of this module, not sure why i missed it out before. Anywho now that i am trying to set it up, i have installed the module (did not use sudo).
Inserted this much code with no modification.

        {
                module:"MMM-Config",
                position:"bottom_right",  // the QR code (if requested) will appear here
                config:{

                }

And when i go to the URL i see a blank page.

@Socrates
Ah that makes sense. Yes i did use sudo. You are right. Will follow the guidelines now.

@sdetweil

Hello and good evening again. The issue has been resolved. Even after reinstalling the module it did not work. Then i thought about something i would have done years back as a Linux System admin if a rpm package was not able to find depedencies already installed, i went and granted chmod -R 777 * to the MMM-OWMF folder, thus giving it recursive permission to read write and execute to self and guest users. After that i restarted and now I can see the module in my dashboard.

Thank you so much for standing with me since yesterday and helping me out with this issue. This has been a great learning curve.

Thanks again!!!