MMM-PoemOfTheDay

Magic Mirror Module for displaying a poem of the day using poemist API. Optionally utilize detect language API to filter poems by language

Screenshot

Usage

1. Install Magic Mirror
2. Change into the modules directory and clone MMM-PoemOfTheDay

cd modules
git clone https://github.com/Steven-Gassert/MMM-PoemOfTheDay.git

3. Add this to the MagicMirror modules array in config/config.js

ex.

modules: [
  {
    module: "MMM-PoemOfTheDay",
    position: "lower_third",
    config: {
      textLimit: 1000,
      lineLimit: 10,
      detectLanguageApiKey: "{API_KEY}",
      languageSet: ["en", "es"],
      updateInterval: 120000
    }
  }
]

4. optional: to enable langague filtering, you must include a detectLanguageApiKey as well as languageSet. See Configuration options below to find out where to retrieve these values

Configuration options

Name	description	default
textLimit	the max number of characters allowed in a poem	1000
lineLimit	the max number of lines allowed in a poem (determined by number of new lines /n)	10
detectLanguageApiKey	api key used to make detect language calls, see Get API key at https://detectlanguage.com/	undefined
languageSet	an array of language options that the poem should be written in, for a complete list of language options see https://ws.detectlanguage.com/0.2/languages	["en", "es"]
updateInterval	interval at which the poems will update in milliseconds, minmum 120000	300000