Best option to hide / show modules with GA

totofar

Hi all,
I’m new with MM and am looking for the best option to show/hide modules via notifications (triggered by GA commands).
Can it be done easily via default components of MM or I have to install a distinct module that provides ready to use ways to capture a “HIDE_MODULE_XX” notification ?
(Maybe this is just a simple setup in a recipe ?)
Thanks,

bugsounet

Hi,

You can use a recipe to send a notification to a module and the module will self hide when the wanted module receive it

or

You can use a recipe to force to hide the wanted module

so In the 2 cases you have to code an recipe

totofar

ok.
I’ll try option2 then.
Thanks

totofar

Hi,
I am not sure there are other beginners in that forum… but in case there are, here is the detailed solution to show / hide modules.
(I wish I found such details instead of wasting hours to understand how receipes & notifications work)

I finaly chose the option 2 suggested by @bugsounet.

Install Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control module
Setup the module until you successfuly manage to show/hide modules using another device (mobile or computer) with http://%MM-URL%:%port%/remote.html (easy setup with attention point on whitelisting)

Once you succeed in showing/hiding with that external device, you can now try to use MMM-GoogleAssistant to send notifications to MMM-Remote-Control to order show/hide instructions

Create a new file in with-MMM-Remote-Control.js in ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GoogleAssistant/recipes/ with following content

var recipe = {
  transcriptionHooks: {
    "SHOW_A": {
      pattern: "SHOW MY MODULE A",
      command: "SHOW_A"
    },
    "HIDE_A": {
      pattern: "HIDE MY MODULE A",
      command: "HIDE_A"
    }
  },
commands: {
"SHOW_A": {
      notificationExec: {
        notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
	  payload: {
		action: "SHOW",
		module: "%Name of module in config.js%" 			}
      },
      soundExec: {
        chime: "open"
      }
    },
"HIDE_A": {
      notificationExec: {
        notification: "REMOTE_ACTION",
	  payload: {
		action: "HIDE",
		module: "%Name of module in config.js%" 			}
      },
            soundExec: {
              chime: "open"
            }
          }
 }
}
exports.recipe = recipe

Declare that receipe in MMM-GoogleAssistant parameters in config.js declaring the .js file in the recipes

...
			  module: "MMM-GoogleAssistant",
			  position: "fullscreen_above",
			  config: {
				recipes: [
				  "with-MMM-Remote-Control.js"
				],
				debug: true,
...

Restart the Magic Mirror
Call “JARVIS HIDE MY MODULE A”… it’ll hide

prota

Bravo!!!

i’m a begginer too. Thank you very much