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You could try this module: https://github.com/Unclearogre/MMM-CustomTable
I wrote it to be a simple legend underneath my monthly calendar to show which color corresponds to which calendar. I’m not sure how you’d easily update the info though.
Google sheets might be the way to go. Depending on how much time you have to spend on this, you could try using AI to create a module.
That’s an awesome idea. The advantage being that you could have a scrolling calendar so you always see 12 months with the current date at the left. In addition, people could then pull it up on their own desktop to see it.
My first thought was to set up a google calendar for each person (just for this) and maybe use something like MMM-CalendarExt3 to display it. I think you’d have to standardize calendar entries (like “Sick”, “Holiday”, “Personal”, “Work-at-Home”) which could be picked up on for the color formatting.
But there might be other, simpler options, such as a simple text file where people could add dates they were out (“Uncle Roger”,“20260428”,“Sick”) that could be updated via a back-end webpage which is then used to fill in date cells in a simple table.
I suspect it will be a fair bit of work to get it set up but worth it in the long run.
You could look through the list of existing modules to see if there’s something that would work: https://kristjanesperanto.github.io/MagicMirror-3rd-Party-Modules/ or https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-Party-Modules
If you don’t have someone on staff who could handle the project, maybe find a teenager/college kid who would do it for a reasonable stipend?
Best of luck!
Thanks!
P.S., I really appreciate all your help, not just for me but for everyone. You really are a rock star!
Okay, so I should back everything up, install MM on a new card, and then reinstall config/css/etc.? Ugh.
One of these days, I’m going to rebuild everything (physical stuff) to make it easier to access the RPi and all.
Thanks!
I’m not sure what happened but it seems that npm and node are no longer set up on my RPi. The MM seems to run fine but updating (npm install) modules returns “-bash: npm:” command not found".
I did “node -v” and got the same error (only “node” instead of “npm”).
Is there an easy way to get this set up correctly again?
Thanks!
So I think the “Suspended” thing is a red herring. I booted up my dev system and watched the console messages there. I saw the same behaviour of BackgroundSlideshow being suspended but it does show the images.
I’ll update just MMM-BackgroundSlideshow on that system and see what happens.
I’m using MMM-BackgroundSlideshow with MMM-Pages and it was working fine. My mirror was down for a while and when I booted it up again, it seemed to be working fine except that a bunch of modules needed updating – MMM-Traffic, MMM-EarthquakeAlerts, MMM-CalendarExt3, and MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.
Like an idiot, I updated them all (git pull/npm install) without backing things up first. I didn’t change the config except to add something to another module on a different page.
I have not reloaded the MM on the actual MM downstairs, but when I access it via a web browser from my computer, it doesn’t show any images.
I looked in the console and see that when switching to page 1 (images), it suspends the modules that were active on page 0, resumes a few always-on modules (MMM-Pages, MMM-Keypress, etc.) and then… suspends MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.
MMM-Pages.js:97 [Pages]: received a notification to change to page 1 of type number
module.js:182 clock is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-Worldclock is suspended.
2module.js:182 calendar is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-connection-status is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-WiFiPassword is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SystemStats is suspended.
module.js:182 weather is suspended.
5module.js:182 MMM-Traffic is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-MoonPhase is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-EarthquakeAlerts is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-CalendarExt3 is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-CustomTable is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SimpleText is suspended.
3module.js:182 MMM-homeassistant-sensors is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-CustomTable is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-NextEvent is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-Bluelinky is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-WeeklySchedule is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-Canvas is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-CalendarExt3Agenda is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SimpleText is suspended.
5module.js:182 MMM-AddressBook is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SimpleText is suspended.
4module.js:182 MMM-AddressBook is suspended.
module.js:182 MMM-SimpleText is suspended.
3module.js:182 MMM-AddressBook is suspended.
module.js:189 alert is resumed.
module.js:189 MMM-Pages is resumed.
module.js:189 MMM-Keypress is resumed.
module.js:189 MMM-AutoDimmer is resumed.
module.js:182 MMM-BackgroundSlideshow is suspended.
One other note - when I change pictures (mouse scrollwheel, picked up my MMM-Keypress and sent as a notification to MMM-BackgroundSlideshow), I see this error:
MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:666 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set properties of undefined (setting 'displayedName')
at Class.updateImageInfo (MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:666:38)
at Image.<anonymous> (MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:553:40)
at handleBinaryFile (exif.js:379:26)
at getImageData (exif.js:386:17)
at EXIF.getData (exif.js:983:13)
at image.onload (MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:531:12)
updateImageInfo @ MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:666
(anonymous) @ MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:553
handleBinaryFile @ exif.js:379
getImageData @ exif.js:386
EXIF.getData @ exif.js:983
image.onload @ MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.js:531
Displaying paintings is one of, if not the most important aspects of this for me so I’d really like to figure this out. Alas, I seem to be an idiot so…
Thanks in advance!
Thank you! I think that fixed it.
nvm was not found but n was – it gave me the option to install 20.8.0 or 20.9.0 so I picked the latter and got a whole lot of “cannot remove” errors. That’s the version I have currently.
So should I use the upgrade script or have I mucked it up too much for that?
My Mirror was down for a while and when I booted it up again, I had some updates to do. These included MMM-EarthquakeAlerts and MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.
I did a “git pull” and “npm install” for MMM-BackgroundSlideshow and it seemed fine. I did the same for MMM-Traffic and again, it seemed fine. Then I did it for MMM-EarthquakeAlerts and got a bunch of messages after the “npm install” saying “EBADENGINE”:
npm install
npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE package: '@eslint/config-array@0.23.2',
npm WARN EBADENGINE required: { node: '^20.19.0 || ^22.13.0 || >=24' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE current: { node: 'v20.9.0', npm: '10.1.0' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }
npm WARN EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm WARN EBADENGINE package: '@eslint/config-helpers@0.5.2',
npm WARN EBADENGINE required: { node: '^20.19.0 || ^22.13.0 || >=24' },
npm WARN EBADENGINE current: { node: 'v20.9.0', npm: '10.1.0' }
npm WARN EBADENGINE }
and so on. There are a total of 11 sets, all for “@eslint/something” except the last which just says "espree@11.1.1’ for the package.
I think that I need to update node.js to at least version 20.19 but I’m not sure how to do that. I honestly have no idea how I installed it in the first place except that it was probably via Sam’s excellent scripts?
If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, I’d really appreciate it. I found that I’ve really come to rely on it.
So put an iframe or webview on the MM to point to an HA user with that card as its only view?
Something like MMM-SmartWebDisplay or MMM-WebView?
Thanks again!
I have HomeAssistant set up and use MMM-HomeAssistant-sensors to grab some data from various devices (mostly a couple of cheap temp/humidity sensors and the fancy new stove & fridge). These display on the mirror as a simple table which is fine.
I also have my wife’s EV hooked up in HA so I can see its status. I have a nice little panel (card?) set up with a gauge for the battery and indicators for things like charging, doors locked, etc.
Can I display that panel as-is on my mirror using MMM-HomeAssistantDisplay? Or would I need to recreate the display for the mirror?
Is there a module that will simply render a HA panel on the mirror?
@sdetweil
Sorry for the late reply; it turns out you install it via HACS and then install the integration (or something like that). I thought I only needed to do the first part.
Thanks for your continuous patience and assistance!
@robotfish
Do you have any pointers to what you set up on HA to get this going? I’ve tried MMM-Bluelinky but it only works occasionally.
I would love to get your module working and get my wife’s Ioniq hooked up to HA.
Any info or links you can share would be most appreciated!
@ge
I’m sure it’s possible, but I would have no idea how to do that.
To be honest, it was the first module I came up with and I used chatgpt to help write it. I’ve since found I don’t have a need for it and it never worked correctly for gmail anyway.
Feel free to make a fork of it and add that functionality or you might be able to commission someone to do it if you can’t. (I certainly can’t.)
Sorry for the lack of help.
@monark said in small outburst - opencv:
Some people may find it fun to find solutions, but for many it is not, especially if years go by without finding solutions either on their own or with the help of the developer who claims to have installed it on other platforms. I would add that the people who find this type of activity fun are precisely those who created the module and know exactly how to untangle it.
I understand your pain. I’ve been working on my MM for a couple of years now and only just recently got it where I feel I’m satisfied for now. But it’s not perfect.
There is a module which will show the arrival times of the next bus/streetcar that I never could get to work reliably, even with the module author’s help. The MMM-Bluelinky module (to display the status of Hyundai/Kia EVs) works occasionally on my test system but almost never on the actual instance. I could go on about things I’ve tried that don’t work. It can be incredibly frustrating.
I am one of those people who enjoys figuring things out but my time is severely limited (full-time job, mentoring a robotics team, serving on the board of a non-profit, going back to college) so I wouldn’t mind a bit more of a finished product.
Here’s the thing, though: I could get a totally finished, polished, ready-to-go with no futzing about product. I would just have to pay for it. (There is a product called DAKboard, I think that might be worth looking into.)
The MagicMirror core system and all of the modules are created and maintained by volunteers who get nothing out of it. I don’t think there’s even any corporate sponsors or anything. So what you get is what people want to put into it.
Most of the people who work on MM and its modules are techies who want to figure out how to get something working either for the fun of it or because they want some functionality. Once they get to that point – working for them – many aren’t interested in the “boring” bits of polishing it up and documenting and so on. And there’s no paycheck to incentivize them to do that.
Take Linux, for example. Linux started out as a personal project and then others started contributing but for a long time it was difficult to use and install and you really had to be pretty tech-savvy to use it. Then companies started getting interested in using it and were willing to pay for a finished product. So other companies – Red Hat, Suse, etc. – were born to do the boring bits of writing manuals and help screens and testing and bug fixes and so on to make it into a product that you can pretty much install off the shelf and use without knowing much. But for a long time, there was a huge difference between Linux and Windows/MacOS because the latter had big companies that invested in them because they weren’t free. Linux was (and is) free, so you got what you paid for.
MagicMirror is the same. You get what you pay for. Actually, that’s not true – you get a lot more because of all the module developers and folks like the amazing @sdetweil who really do put in a lot of time and effort to make MM as off-the-shelf usable as possible. But it’s not going to be as polished as a commercial product.
Now, here’s a thought: Perhaps you could find someone with the time and expertise who would be willing to get your mirror set up for you the way you want it if you pay them. It’s not unheard of – there are folks who will build Ikea furniture for you and folks who will run your garage sale for you. This isn’t any different.
So it comes down to either doing all the work yourself or paying someone else to do it for you (either a freelance MM person or DAKboard/etc.).
If you choose to do it yourself, there are a lot of folks here who can and will answer questions.
I’m playing around with some modules in the bottom_left, bottom_center, and bottom_right sections. It appears that, by default, they align with the bottom of the section which, I guess, kinda makes sense.
However, I’d like to see how it looks if they’re all aligned to the top of whichever module is tallest.
Here’s what it looks like at the moment:
but I think I’d like it to look like this:
Is that possible?
@plainbroke
Thanks! I’ll check out Tapo!
I have a couple of blink cameras scattered around the house (they were freebies) but it doesn’t look like they’re particularly compatible with MM (or Home Assistant). I’d like to get a camera or two to put outside so I can see what’s going on around the house.
Does anyone have any recommendations for cameras that aren’t too expensive but which play well with MM (and, ideally, Home Assistant)? They need to be outdoor cameras.
A web interface would be nice too.
Thanks!
@BKeyport
Was the altflag option something that was related to the fatal bug in your version? If not, do you think it’s something that could be added to the latest one?