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I have a wifi watchdog installed because my wifi connection sometimes breaks off.
It automatically turn the wifi controller off and on again, when the pi can’t ping my router. Maybe u should check this out:

http://alexba.in/blog/2015/01/14/automatically-reconnecting-wifi-on-a-raspberrypi/

I just replaced the used IP Adresse from this Tutorial with my routers IP adress.

Brainstorming again. Maybe your Pi doesnt have enough power for the wifi controller when u turn on your alexa, magicmirror and such other stuff.
So it cannot hold the connection with the -71db. Maybe a repeater would help, so with e.g. -49db the wifi Controller doesnt need too much power

I tried various ways to get a short mp4 file playing while the mirror is up.
I added omxplayer commands within the config.js file and stored the mp4 file in the same folder. That didnt work.
Could I startup an python file within the config.js and the python file would then do some GPI pin (sensor) controls an start the file ?
What would be your suggestions ?

@MajorC are u using the new temp calendar fixes? from the troubleshooting section?

@sputnik & @remylpat …

Give this a try…

See if it is anything close to what you are wanting…

Still tweaking it a bit, but it is working.

I am working on getting it to work with the RasPi buttons also.

Please give me any and all feedback, Thanks! :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Description:

A very simple video player module with clickable thumbnails to show playlist.

Screenshots:

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Variations:

this is the first version, working on: simplifying configurations,
size of player, buttons, number of videos, buttons can be changed to text as well as color
and upcoming… option to use physical buttons on RasPi

Any options anyone may want with this module… Feel free to let me know! :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Download:

[card:justjim1220/MMM-MyVideoPlayer]