Are you tired of editing config.js, or have trouble doing it, see my new module

louise

@sdetweil I am soooooo new at this. I had it working once by someone else, card got corrupted and the person building it no longer available. So I’m trying to rebuild on my own. Not a coder, programmer or anything else.

I’ve tried the modules, got the calendar and weather in the config.js but it doesn’t run.

So what do you need me to show you?

louise

@sdetweil This is what I get when trying to run Magic Mirror from npm start

JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Cannot find module ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/…/modules/default/defaultmodules’
Require stack:

/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js
/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js
/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js
at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:15)
at Function.n._resolveFilename (electron/js2c/browser_init.js:257:1128)
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/module-alias/index.js:49:29)
at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:732:27)
at Function.f._load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:19)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:16:24)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1078:30)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1108:10)

sdetweil

@louise so, read the link… it will help A LOT…

from a command line, (terminal window) you need to change folders

cd new_folder_name

just like on windows
(except here the names are case sensitive)

when I said in doc

Clone this repo into ~/MagicMirror/modules directory.

that means change directory (cd command)

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules

u left off the cd

but the error implies you have not installed MagicMirror yet…

I have a script for that
see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

its just a cut/paste of one line

sdetweil

@louise errors. looks like you didn’t do npm install after git clone of MagicMirror repo …

sdetweil

@sdetweil said in Are you tired of editing config.js, or have trouble doing it, see my new module:

@josh45631 @mumblebaj

@josh45631 @mumblebaj i updated the readme to specify MM_IP_Address instead of ‘machine_name’ if you need/want/have to use the manual reivew url instead of the QR

brianlove

Thank you for this! So I’m new to MM (you’ve got to love that phrase, right?) but slowly learning. I’ve got MM-Config running and can access it via a separate laptop on my network. I can see the running modules, and the QR Code, but when I go to turn a module on/off and “save,” it won’t do anything on the MM side. I can see the “config_last_change” file has the date and time, but can’t figure out why nothing is changing or saving.

Any ideas? Thanks again!

BKeyport

@brianlove Did you restart your Mirror? (Not the whole pi, just the mirror app)

If so, please elaborate. Which module are you toggling? Can you share the config segment showing the change?

brianlove

@bkeyport

I did restart the mirror. As for the modules, I’ve tried multiple ones, but specifically currentweather & CalendarWeek.

	{
	module:"MMM-Config",
	position:"top_right",  // the QR code (if requested) will appear here
	config:{

	}
},

sdetweil

@brianlove I will check when I can.

could u enable debug in my module
( if using pm2, do pm2 stop all)
then start with

npm start > somefile.txt

then do the edit and save on the form

and then stop mm (ctrl-q) and send me the
somefile.txt via email.

same userid as here at gmail.
thanks

doogy_rev

Hi All,

I reinstalled my MM this week and decided to use this module to do the configurations. Its all installed and I can see all my modules, however it seems to be hit and miss on enabling and setting the positions. for example,

default clock - this would not enable, I manually enabled it in the config and now shows Blue but can not set the position, either from the page or in the config.

Default calendar - this enabled ok, shows blue, but can not set the position, does not save

MMM-OpenWeatherForecast - works perfectly

newsfeed - works perfectly.

Any ideas on why some modules seem to be hit or miss?

Sorry for the thread resurrection, was not sure where to post.

Thanks

sdetweil

@doogy_rev set debug in my module config

debug:true,

then start mm like this

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile.txt

if you use pm2 for autostart
before the above do

pm2 stop all

after running and ‘saving’

ctrl-c to stop mm

send the somefile.txt to my email, or open an issue on the module and attach it there. (warning this log file has full text contents of config.js, so sending as email is better as issues are public). my email is this same userid at gmail

also, positions are set down below, not in the config up above… right?

doogy_rev

@sdetweil I just emailed you the file, and yes I am setting the positions using the positions drop down menu at the bottom.

sdetweil

@doogy_rev yes, checking shortly

sdetweil

@doogy_rev see email for downloading fix

doogy_rev

@sdetweil Works like a champ! Thank you for looking in to this and fixing.

sdetweil

I posted a new release the other day, which finally fixes compliments the right way, and enables other module authors to leverage the same capabilities.
documented in the readme.

Socrates

I love the idea of this module, not sure why i missed it out before. Anywho now that i am trying to set it up, i have installed the module (did not use sudo).
Inserted this much code with no modification.

        {
                module:"MMM-Config",
                position:"bottom_right",  // the QR code (if requested) will appear here
                config:{

                }

And when i go to the URL i see a blank page.

sdetweil

@Socrates SOOOOO much fun, because there are no types in javascript and no standards for modules, i have to discover and guess the author’s intent.

sometimes i have a bug, sometimes they do weird unexpected things
can you look at the console where you do npm start?

if you use pm2, then

pn2 logs --lines=xxxx

where xxxx is a number of lines to display, default 15
I’ve tested w a lot of modules, but not all

can u give me a list of all the modules in your config.js

grep "module:" ~/MagicMirror/config/config.js | uniq | sort -h

you didn’t see it cause its not listed in the modules list

would you be willing to send me
a copy of your config.js, xxx out apikeys, private data urls, but make sure to leave the structure

from the the module folder, the
defaults.js
and the schema3.json —/ again edit out private things (near the bottom)

i do not share info sent to me, ever,
you can also attach the cleaned files to an issue on the module github page

if emailing
.js files have to be renamed by adding .txt to the end

defaults and schema3 are constructed from your installed modules

me email is the same userid as here at gmail.

sdetweil

@Socrates i really want to look at this problem.

MarcLandis

@sdetweil I get the same blank page and the reason is that it errors on buildschema4.js.

The reason is the compliments module:

compliments: {
anytime: [“Hey there sexy!”],
morning: [“Good morning, handsome!”, “Enjoy your day!”, “How was your sleep?”],
afternoon: [“Hello, beauty!”, “You look sexy!”, “Looking good today!”],
evening: [“Wow, you look hot!”, “You look nice!”, “Hi, sexy!”],
“…-01-01”: [“Happy new year!”]
},