MMM-NewsAPI

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj OK from some testing, there is a bad interaction with MMM-News, MMM-NewsAPI and MMM-Gmailfeed.

If I have Gmailfeed active, neither of the news modules work.
If I disable Gmailfeed, NewsAPI works but News doesn’t.
If I disable Gmailfeed and NewsAPI, News works.

So for now I’ve disabled Gmailfeed and removed NewsAPI, as MMM-News fits my needs better. But I would be interested to know what is going wrong, as I would ideally like both MMM-News and MMM-Gmailfeed running, like I used to have up to sometime last week (when MMM-News stopped displaying anything)…

I appreciate this is now moved from MMM-NewsAPI to MMM-News, so if you’d prefer to troubleshoot that in a different thread (is there one for MMM-News?) I’m happy to switch.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj OK went into MMM-GmailFeed and updated it with git pull. Looks like it has been having some issues with at least one other module from its thread here.

Anyway updated to the latest version and restored it’s config and now both are happily playing together.

Thanks for all the help in getting this sorted out - my mirror is now back fully up and running with MMM-News and MMM-GmailFeed playing nicely together again!

mumblebaj

@darrenhill Ah, perfect. Yes, MMM-News and MMM-NewsApi will not work together. You can only use either or at a time. However, I am glad you managed to get things working.

swvalenti

The bottom right of where the news was sourced from is always 1 day ago is that accurate to they way it should be?

mumblebaj

@swvalenti Hi. That is correct. All the articles returned are from 1 day ago and thus the Luxon DateTime.toRelative() returns 1 day ago. That is how I coded it. If you would like a different format please raise a request on the GitHub page and I can look at it.

swvalenti

@mumblebaj nope all good was just making sure I wasn’t missing current news.

swvalenti

The news source footer, how do I make that display in the bottom right in css?

mumblebaj

@swvalenti You can try this:

#NEWSAPI .footer {
    text-align: left;
}

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj I’m trying to do something similar, but can’t quite get it to work.

I’ve got the module running in the centre bottom, and want to run it vertically rather than horizontally (so it’s more a block than a footer).
It’s almost there, except I can’t get the title to look right. Sometimes it’s OK (goes horizontally in a single line) but other times I get the text either going one word per line stacked vertically, or a block of the first few words like that and then the rest below in a correctly oriented line.

Is there anything I can adjust to make it work better and look right (all the title text going horizontally, line wrapped if it’s too long to fit)?

My config currently looks like this:

       {
            module: "MMM-NewsAPI",
            header: "News",
            position: "bottom_center",
            config: {
                    apiKey: "#########################",
                    type: "vertical",
                    choice: "everything",
                    pageSize: 20,
                    sortBy: "publishedAt",
                    drawInterval: 1000*30,
                    templateFile: "template.html",
                    fetchInterval: 1000*60*60,
                    query: {
                        country: "",
                        category: "",
                        q: "",
                        qInTitle: "",
                        sources: "",
                        domains: "bbc.co.uk",
                        excludeDomains: "",
                        language: ""
                        }
                    }
        },

and custom.css:


#NEWSAPI.vertical .header .title .content .footer {
    text-align: center;
}

Still it’s nice to have this module working in the UK again! :)

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Seems like the QR code is the culprit. Will advise once I get a chance to have a look and push a fix for it.