MMM-Fritz-Box-Callmonitor: Notification formatting

[coernel]

@wishmaster270 and @Jan-0 Is there now a current repository with the issues fixed? I would love to use the module as well.
Also it should be added here : https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-party-modules

[Jose Walsh]

@Jan-0 said in MMM-Fritz-Box-Callmonitor: Notification formatting:

Hi,
I’m referring to this module (https://github.com/paviro/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor). Although it is quite outdated, I still like it and I was able to transfer it to an python3 environment. However, since some update (don’t know which one), the notification (“alert”) is not formatted properly.
The reason seems to be in line 85 of the file MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor.js:
// Override socket notification handler.
socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) {
if (notification === “call”) {
//Show alert on UI
this.sendNotification(“SHOW_ALERT”, {
title: this.translate(“title”),
message: “” + payload + “”,
imageFA: “phone”
});

  	//Set active Alert to current call
  	this.activeAlert = payload;
  }

There are two problems: 1) the title is not translated but printed, 2) the message is not formatted but the formatting information is printed verbosely.
Unfortunately, I’m neither an expert in the MagicMirror syntax nor in javascript. Could somebody give me a hint how I need to adopt the code?

To fix this, you can remove the quotes and use template literals instead. Template literals allow you to include variables and formatting within a string using backticks () instead of quotes. Here's how you can modify the code to use template literals: socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) { if (notification === "call") { //Show alert on UI this.sendNotification("SHOW_ALERT", { title: this.translate("title"), message: ${payload}`,
imageFA: “phone”
});

//Set active Alert to current call
this.activeAlert = payload;

}
}
As for the translation issue, you need to make sure that the translate function is correctly configured in your module. The translate function should be defined in the getTranslations function in the module’s node_helper.js file. Here’s an example of how to define the translate function:
getTranslations: function() {
return {
en: “translations/en.json”,
de: “translations/de.json”
};
},

translate: function(key) {
return this.translate(key);
}
This assumes that you have translation files for English and German located in the translations folder of your module. You may need to modify this code to match the structure of your module.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

[wishmaster270]

@coernel
Hi,
as i can see this fork https://github.com/drtorchwood/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3/tree/code_update_2023 contains all changes needed.
But you will need to either use the current development version of MagicMirror or wait for the next release which i think is planned for 2022-04-01 to get the alerts formatted correctly.

[coernel]

@wishmaster270 said in MMM-Fritz-Box-Callmonitor: Notification formatting:

@coernel
Hi,
as i can see this fork https://github.com/drtorchwood/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3/tree/code_update_2023 contains all changes needed.
But you will need to either use the current development version of MagicMirror or wait for the next release which i think is planned for 2022-04-01 to get the alerts formatted correctly.

This is great however I just get this:

Is this the formatting error we are talking about without the Core update? If yes I am willing to wait. But this for me looks like more than a formatting setting!

Callmonitor definately is enabled via Fritz!Phone. And username and password are correct - I can access the Fritz!Box and the user has the view and edit settings:

Benutzer mit dieser Berechtigung können alle Einstellungen der FRITZ!Box sehen und bearbeiten.

Any help would be appreciated!

[wishmaster270]

@coernel
The view you show indicates that there are no recent calls and that the fetch of the telephone book is still running or was not successful. But it is the normal view. The calls will be signaled as alerts. So make sure you have the default alert module activated in your config.js:

		{
			module: "alert",
		},

The formatting will only be wrong in the alert.

Please make sure to check the following things, too:

• You cloned the right fork with the following command?

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
git clone git@github.com:drtorchwood/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3.git

Edit:
* You use the right branch by calling the following commands?
As of 2023-02-25 the changes are merged to the master branch of the fork. So no need to change to the code_update_2023 branch anymore.

• You installed the JavaScript dependencies?

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3
npm install

• You installed the Python dependencies?

sudo pip3 install fritzconnection

• You activated the call monitor service of the box by dialing the following number with one of your phones?

#96*5*

• You configured the right IP address in config.js with option fritzIP. Default is 192.168.178.1?

		{
			module: 'MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3',
			position: 'bottom_left',
			header: "Verpasste Anrufe", 
			config: {
				username: "foo",
				password: "bar",
				fritzIP: "10.18.8.1",
				reloadContactsInterval: 50,
				minimumCallLength: 0,
				showContactsStatus: true,
				maximumCallDistance: 60*6,
				maximumCalls: 4,
				fade: false,
				debug: true,
			}
		},

If the call monitor service is not activated on the fritz box you will see a message like this in the logs:

[24.02.2023 16:31.29.944] [ERROR] Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.178.1:1012
    at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1494:16) {
  errno: -111,
  code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  syscall: 'connect',
  address: '192.168.178.1,
  port: 1012
}

And again the call monitor service is independent of username and password. The credentials are used to fetch the telephone book and the past calls only.

Thats how the default view looks in my case:

And thats how it looks if there is a incomming call:

If you do not use the current development branch of MagicMirror there may be some html code in the alert and it will look like <span style='font-size:30px'>Tom</span>

[Jan 0]

@coernel I now also pushed the changes into the master https://github.com/drtorchwood/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3/tree/master

[coernel]

@Jan-0
This is so cool! It does work now. Has it been published to the list of modules?
If you or @wishmaster270 are somewhere near Cologne you or are invited for a free professional solo session of Feldenkrais Functional Integration or a free professional singing lesson!

[wishmaster270]

@coernel
Great to hear and you are welcome. I try to help where I can.
I live about 30km south of Munich but thanks for your invitation.

[xIExodusIx]

Hi Everybody out there using MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor,
I would love to use this Module, but I’m not really in the mod to code or to find errors.
I tried to install your new branch under PiOS “Bookworm” but I get some errors using
“sudo apt-get install python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev && sudo pip install fritzconnection”!
The first error is: " E: For Package »python-dev« exists no Installationscandidate."
The second error for pip install is: “externally-managed-environment …”
How can I solve these problems?
Sorry for my bad english, I’m german and over 60 years old.
Thanks for helping.

[rabbit83ka]

@xIExodusIx that’s due to changes in the handling of the python packages. I installed “fritzconnection” in a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

python -m pip install fritzconnection

to make the Callmonitor use the fritzconnection, I edited the nodehelper.js (in ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-FritzBox-Callmonitor-py3) in line 212 to look like this (user is “pi”, must be adapted if you use another user):

pythonPath: '/home/pi/venv/bin/python',

Don’t know if it’s the best solution, but it works.