MMM-quote-of-the-day

Module to get a random quote from various authorship.

This module is based on the Forismatic API. Quotes are only available in English but they can be translated on the fly in the language of your choice. The translation is based on the Google API. The quote is renewed following a configurable update interval.

quote-of-the-day_english

Installation

Clone this repo into ~/MagicMirror/modules directory. Then move in the folder and install required libraries

cd MMM-quote-of-the-day
npm install

Configure your ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js:

{
    module: "MMM-quote-of-the-day",
    position: "lower_third",
    config: {
        language: "en",
        updateInterval: "1d"
    }
}

Configuration option

Option	Default	Description
language	en	ISO-639-1 code of the language of the quote. Will be translated via google API if not set to "en"
updateInterval	1d	Time between each update of the quote. Composed by an integer followed by a letter "s" or "m" or "h" or "d" for second, minute, hour or day.

Example of updateInterval:

1d: update the quote every day
4h: update the quote every 4 hours
30m: update the quote every 30 minutes

External control

From my module by using internal notification

You can send notification to this module via your own module. by using the sendNotification method.

Update the quote from my module:

this.sendNotification("QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY", "getNewQuote")

From MM API

To get a new quote from the API. Send a POST request to the /quote-of-the-day URI of your Magic Mirror

Curl example:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"notification":"QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY", "payload": "getNewQuote"}' http://localhost:8080/quote-of-the-day

From Kalliope

Here is an example of usage via Kalliope assistant

  - name: "new-quote"
    signals:
        - order: "give me a new quote"
    neurons:
        - magic_mirror:
            mm_url: "http://127.0.0.1:8080/kalliope"
            notification: "QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY"
            payload: "getNewQuote"
        - say:
            message: "here is a new quote"

See an example video here.

Sispheor / MMM-quote-of-the-day