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.