EXT-Photos is a plugins for displaying any photos urls in full-screen discover by EXT-Assistant

Installation

Execute npm run setup:EXT-Photos in the MMM-Bugsounet's folder.

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Bugsounet
npm run setup:EXT-Photos

Configuration

Insert your configuration in the config.js file of MagicMirror.

{
  module: "MMM-Bugsounet/EXTs/EXT-Photos",
  config: {
    debug: false,
    displayDelay: 20 * 1000,
    loop: false
  }
},

Option	Description	Type	Default
debug	Enable or not debug mode	Boolean	false
displayDelay	Delay before change photo automaticaly in ms. (default is 20 secs)	Number	20000
loop	Make a loop on all photos	Boolean	false

MagicMirror electronOptions

A new part of config is needed for displaying this module.

On the begining of MagicMirror config.js, modify with electronOptions

var config = {
  address: "localhost",
  electronOptions: {
    webPreferences: {
      webviewTag: true
    }
  },
  port: 8080,
...

Developer Notes

Incoming notification:

• Bugsounet_PHOTOS-OPEN:
  • Open the photo player with the URLs designed in payload.
  • payload must be an Array of URLs
• Bugsounet_PHOTOS-CLOSE: Close the photo player

Outgoing notification:

• Bugsounet_PHOTOS-CONNECTED: When the photo player just open
• Bugsounet_PHOTOS-DISCONNECTED: When the photo player just close

When the photo player is open:

This module will hide all modules for open the photo player It's the better way to disable all modules to increase RPI performance

It will use EXT_PHOTOS-LOCKED lockString