@johnnyboy in your case it is .clock { margin-top: 20px;}

@fox I don’t use this service, but I send an api request

As in the last weeks some solutions (MMM-RemoteControl, MMM-Admin-Interface, MagicMirrorApp, MMM-Mobile, etc.), to easily configure the MagicMirror², came out, I would like to define a standard for 3rd party module developers.

How should the configuration structure for modules look like so the developers have to put only effort once to include their modules in all solutions.

I’m pinning some people, who I’m interested on their oppinions:

@MichMich @Jopyth @ItayXD @aschulz90 @yawns @ianperrin @morozgrafix

@albinolan I’ve done it in some of my modules e.g. https://github.com/fewieden/MMM-VocabularyTrainer/blob/master/apis/geschichtsvereinkoengen.js https://github.com/fewieden/MMM-ShipmentTracking/blob/master/carriers/DHL.js

@NathTheDude you will need js to give your module some logic, some basic html for the layout and also a bit css for styling.

But you can also write your main logic in nearly every language you want, a couple of people used python for example. Though you would still need a wrapper in js to integrate it to MagicMirror.

@RHeniz you can do that by combining those two modules

https://github.com/ianperrin/MMM-ModuleScheduler

https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control

@randal-io you also have an error in here

if (this.config.lang != "en" || "ru") {
	Log.error(self.name, "Please enter a supported language into the config.");
}

this will always print the error message, it should be

if (this.config.lang != "en" && this.config.lang != "ru") {
	Log.error(self.name, "Please enter a supported language into the config.");
}

@pepemujica remove the module updatenotification from your config

Another topic which is somehow related to give feedback/appreciation

I recognized this behaviour in a lot of my repos and after viewing the profile of those users it looks like a scheme. So

Why do people fork repositorys on github instead of starring them?

Fork a repo: You fork a repo if you want to make changes to the original codebase and use the fork or create a pull request.

Star a repo: You star a repo if you like it. It’s similar to upvote on the forum or likes on facebook, youtube, … and gives the developer kind of credit for his work.

@cowboysdude you can access the global config by config.timeFormat instead of the local module config this.config.timeFormat

@roramirez i tested it back then (also commented on github) and it worked for me in electron, I tried it again now and it still works

@Damian if you dont intend to develop on modules you can also just do npm install --productive, which just downloads those ones needed for production and doesn’t download the development dependencies.

@Sean actually the problem starts even before the cache. the way magicmirror is designed in the update module function is, that it will only rerender if there was something changed in the dom. But your solution should still fix the problem.

Another similar way would be to put a “seed” to the dom element itself insetad of the url, as i suggested in the iframe reload module, which fixed the reload problem there.

after line 147

img.setAttribute("timestamp", new Date().getTime());

which will create an dom element like:

< img class="photo" timestamp="1508693514656" src="http://api.usno.navy.mil/imagery/earth.png?date=today" />

@relluts just remove it from the config.js file

@tosti007 as @yawns mentioned I’m busy with my bachelor thesis and thereafter moving into another city, starting a job etc., on the other side I’m currently online anyways to support my testers. I would just behave and helping as I am doing now.

I wouldn’t say no, but also I wouldn’t explicitly applying for it.

@doubleT personally i wouldn’t take php in the middle just to request the webiste, you could do that in the nodehelper directly

@twosix in all your examples you’re escaping the closing quote

{
  symbol: "calendar-check-o ",
  url: "webcal://p55-calendars.icloud.com/published/2/TDWYwJjbv2BpM3HLxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxvZM-3TNpXNgZXsi192SI7M6pxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXZCkcApre7Kg\"
}

you can see there that the next line is green which indicates that the string isn’t closed there probably. This happen because of the \ right in front of the quote character.

If the backslash doesn’t belong to your string remove it, if you need the backslash you have to escape the backslash by adding a second. like this:

{
  symbol: "calendar-check-o ",
  url: "webcal://p55-calendars.icloud.com/published/2/TDWYwJjbv2BpM3HLxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxvZM-3TNpXNgZXsi192SI7M6pxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXZCkcApre7Kg\\"
}

here you can see that the closing curly brace is no longer highlighted in green because the string is closed properly.

@cowboysdude Don’t forget to post some pictures when you made some progress :)

there are only few steps to integrate the voice control to someones modul cough https://github.com/fewieden/MMM-voice/blob/master/DEVELOPER.md