As request by some, first version of showing random full size background from a local folder.
[card:Ultimatum22/MMM-RandomBackground]
It will load a photo’s from a photo directory in ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground, easiest way is by creating a Windows share. If somebody needs help with that let me know.
This still has a lot of improvements, I will update the readme with future implementations and a list of issues. If you see any please let me know.
A very fast solution is too remove all desktop icons and set a black background. I used a different desktop then the default to fix this issue. I might do a tutorial if more people want a cleaner solution.
This is exactly what I am currently developing, loading random photos from a directory. For my personal use I want additional info about the photo, which I have done by using subdirectories. Last directory is the name who took the photo, the rest is the ‘album’.
For example folder structure:
photos\Vacation\Cuba - 2013\Dave
photos\Vacation\Cuba - 2013\Erik
photos\Vacation\Egypt - 2012\Dave
This displays Vacation\Cuba - 2013 as album and Dave as person who took the photo. I am also trying to get the timestamp from the photo but not sure it works yet. I am going to make it an option to show extra photo information.
Anybody still interested? I can do an early release in the near future.
Those files are auto created by the system, you can safely remove them.
rm package-lock.json
rm vendor/package-lock.json
In order to update git requires that no local files have changes, that is what the error message means.
Those files should really be in a .gitignore file but that is another issues. Removing the files should solve your issue.
I didn’t found that other module, thanks for pointing it out.
This is what I got so far, still a work in progress. The white square is supposed to be the rest minutes.
@cotxwx When you start the MM and it hangs try to access the webpage through another computer/phone. Go to <:8080 (I believe it was). If you are able to see the MM then it correctly starts (this is my assumption).
If it doesn’t work can you try to just run npm start without the DISPLAY=:0.
@ernst-jan said in MMM-SoccerLiveScore no pictures:
at Request._callback (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-SoccerLiveScore/node_helper.js:36:30)
You left out the most important line. The first line says there is something wrong at line 36 character 30 in the file node_helper.js but probably is the error above this. So post a bit more or upload the log somewhere. But this looks more like a bug in the plugin itself and not the core system.
DISPLAY=:0 meansyou have a screen at which you show the interface, what do you see on that screen, nothing? I haven’t install MM for a while, is there a log file by any change in the root MM folder?
Try to run in dev mode, might give you more information
npm start dev
In your second code example you are missing the . for region.
Make sure you copy paste the code exactly, dots and hashes are important
Read the error message, ad.nl is not supported. If you check the sources you see which sources are available
https://newsapi.org/v2/sources?apiKey=b33df8fffc4f47c6a75926a4bfd40088
@lavolp3 Because they are automatically generated files, you don’t include them in a repository.
package-lock.json is automatically generated for any operations where npm modifies either the node_modules tree, or package.json. It describes the exact tree that was generated, such that subsequent installs are able to generate identical trees, regardless of intermediate dependency updates.
Those files are auto created by the system, you can safely remove them.
rm package-lock.json
rm vendor/package-lock.json
In order to update git requires that no local files have changes, that is what the error message means.
Those files should really be in a .gitignore file but that is another issues. Removing the files should solve your issue.
@MM-Hans That is true, Mykle1 already said that. My post was after you swapped the SD card with an existing installation of MM on it.
@MM-Hans Check if this works, haven’t tried it myself but problems looks the same.
https://blog.miniarray.com/installing-node-js-on-a-raspberry-pi-zero-21a1522db2bb
@ROMSY Yes that is possible, I have done it too. It is a bit more hastle because the splashscreen didn’t work after the automatic installer and you have to do some manual stuff as linked by broberg earlier in this topic.