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@sdetweil Sure. But if I don’t recall what problems I ran into and how I solved them, I won’t k ow what to modify in the documentation until I try following the instructions again.

@sdetweil I should have kept notes on what I didn’t do initially, but was in a hurry. I’ll be making a second mirror soon, and will do that.

I would try starting over. I had a couple problems when I installed it, but I found every time the answers were actually in the instructions, just not quite how I would have expected to see them.

I have two calendars in the configuration list for the default calendar module. I cannot get the maximumEntries flag to work, either on the global level (i.e., setting it in the module configuration, before configuring individual calendars) or within each calendar’s configuration.

I’ve tried setting the global maximumEntries (with quotes around the number and without quotes), and each calendar’s maximumEntries to … I’ve even tried setting the individual calendar maximumEntries to ’1’ each. Whatever I do, it still shows the same number of entries.

Any suggestions? Here’s the calendar part of my config file, with the calendar IDs XXX’d out.

���������������{
������������������������module: "calendar",
������������������������header: "Significant dates",
������������������������position: "top_left",
������������������������showLocation: true,
������������������������wrapEvents: true,
������������������������colored: true,
������������������������maximumEntries: '2',
������������������������config: {
��������������������������������calendars: [
����������������������������������������{
������������������������������������������������symbol: "calendar-check",
������������������������������������������������url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics",
������������������������������������������������color: "#0000FF",
������������������������������������������������maximumEntries: '1',
����������������������������������������},
����������������������������������������{
������������������������������������������������url: "webcal://localhost:8080/modules/calendars/XXX.ics”,
symbol���������������������������������: "calendar",
������������������������������������������������maximumEntries: '1',
����������������������������������������}
��������������������������������]
������������������������}
����������������},

In case someone else comes looking for this functionality, I settled on MMM-RemoteCompliments — it ties in to Google Drive, and by using the Current Compliment function, I can display a single message and change it manually, or cycle through messages using Random and Scheduled compliments. It’s a really nicely organized (and documented!) module. It also allows photos, which looks good on the monitor before adding the mirror; not sure how that will change things.

Is there a module that would allow me to display messages I (or someone else) chooses to send to the mirror remotely? The idea is to be able to say hi or send short messages to a mirror that is given as a gift.

This would need to work via the Internet (ie, not only whole on the same LAN). I think the easiest would be to post the messages somewhere that the mirror can check occasionally. Happy to modify code or write simple Python scripts (JS ok in a pinch).

I’d like it to be at least modestly secure — I don’t want random strangers to be able to stumble on the messages, which they could if I just used a script watching a twitter account for example.

But I’m not sure what is available for this and what makes the most sense. — a Gmail or IMAP inbox? A password protected website? Encrypted Twitter messages? I can imagine a lot of possibilities. But I can’t be the first person to want to do this, so surely there’s some existing module or approach that will work.

Any suggestions welcome!

@thgmirror Hey, thanks! Very helpful. Will try that out tonight.

@thgmirror Just to make sure: Do you mean two instances of the module, or do you mean two separate RSS feeds in one module? I can do the latter, but for some reason the former isn’t working.

If you’ve gotten two instances to work, then I have some kind of an error in my config file that doesn’t crash the mirror entirely.

Is it possible to put the RSS module in two places on a MagicMirror implementation? I’d like it in the (default) lower third, but also in the top bar.

When I try to add another RSS module with the position of top_bar, I get a config error. But I don’t know if that’s because I’ve mistyped something, or if it’s not possible to put the RSS module in two places at once.

Thanks!