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      sdetweil @jimb
      last edited by sdetweil

      @jimb hm… I don’t see those words
      Screenshot_20231207_143507_Chrome.jpg

      git clone is done via command line

      ALL commands are done via command line

      command line is terminal or ssh terminal window

      Sam

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        jimb
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        Sam, sorry to be so dense. You mention the ‘git clone’ command. Is that how ‘all’ your files are moved into the MagicMirror/Moddules directory? I’ll hunt around for the proper usage. It’s a little confusing using commands from the computer though. Please keep im mind this is all new to me, thanks

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          sdetweil @jimb
          last edited by

          @jimb please read this
          https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4528/how-to-create-a-working-config-for-absolute-beginners

          I didn’t write it

          Sam

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            jimb
            last edited by sdetweil

            Sam, I read your comments, thanks! I have git-cloned the files into the modules sub-directory. I modified the config.js to include the lines of code you listed. Somehow I’ve blown up the file. Running in dev mode it says “unexpected (:)” is in line 58. I’ve gone over the code and don’t see the issue. Here is my config file-

            /*
            * MagicMirror² Config Sample
             *
             * By Michael Teeuw https://michaelteeuw.nl
             * MIT Licensed.
             *
             * For more information on how you can configure this file
             * see https://docs.magicmirror.builders/configuration/introduction.html
             * and https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/configuration.html
             *
             * You can use environment variables using a `config.js.template` file instead of `config.js`
             * which will be converted to `config.js` while starting. For more information
             * see https://docs.magicmirror.builders/configuration/introduction.html#enviromnent-variables
             */
            let config = {
            	address: "localhost",	// Address to listen on, can be:
            							// - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
            							// - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
            							// - "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
            							// Default, when address config is left out or empty, is "localhost"
            	port: 8080,
            	basePath: "/",			// The URL path where MagicMirror² is hosted. If you are using a Reverse proxy
            					  		// you must set the sub path here. basePath must end with a /
            	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"],	// Set [] to allow all IP addresses
            							// or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
            							// ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
            							// or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
            							// ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],
            
            	useHttps: false, 	// Support HTTPS or not, default "false" will use HTTP
            	httpsPrivateKey: "", 	// HTTPS private key path, only require when useHttps is true
            	httpsCertificate: "", 	// HTTPS Certificate path, only require when useHttps is true
            
            	language: "en",
            	locale: "en-US",
            	logLevel: ["INFO", "LOG", "WARN", "ERROR"], // Add "DEBUG" for even more logging
            	timeFormat: 12,
            	units: "imperial",
            
            	modules: [
            		{
            			module: "alert",
            		},
            		{
            			module: "updatenotification",
            			position: "top_bar"
            		},
            		{
            			module: "MMM-Config",
            			position: "top_right",		//the QR code (if requested) will appear here
            			config:{
            		},
            			module: "clock",
            			timezone: "America/Chicago",
            			showPeriodUpper: "true",
            			showDate: "true",
            			position: "top_left",
            		},
            			module: "calendar",
            			header: "US Holidays",
            			position: "top_left",
            			config: {
            				calendars: [
            					{
            						fetchInterval: 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
            						symbol: "calendar-check",
            						url: "https://ics.calendarlabs.com/76/mm3137/US_Holidays.ics"
            					}
            				]
            			}
            		},
            		{
            			module: "compliments",
            			position: "lower_third"
            		},
            		{			
            			module: "weather",
            			units: "imperial",
            			windUnits: "imperial",
            			tempUnits: "imperial",
            			appendLocationNameToHeader: "true",
            			showPeriodUpper: "true",
            			colored: "true",
            			position: "top_right",
            			header: "Current Weather",
            			config: {
            				weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
            				lat: "29.763281",
            				lon: "-95.363274",
            				type: "current",
            				location: "Houston",
            				locationID: "4699066", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
            				apiKey: "8eca2aec0c123ce212",
            			}
            		},
            		{
            			module: "weather",
            			units: "imperial",
            			winUnits: "imperial",
            			tempUnits: "imperial",
            			appendLocationNameToHeader: "true",
            			showPeriodUpper: "true",
            			colored: "true",
            			position: "top_right",
            			header: "Weather Forecast",
            			config: {
             				weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
            				lat: "29.763281",
             				lon:"-95.363274",	
             				type: "forecast",
                 				location: "Houston",
            				locationID: "4699066", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
            				apiKey: "8eca2aecb123ce212",
            			}
            		},
            		{
            			module: "newsfeed",
            			position: "bottom_bar",
            			config: {
            				feeds: [
            					{
            				title: "New York Times",
            					url: "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
            					}
            				],
            				showSourceTitle: true,
            				showPublishDate: true,
            				broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
            				broadcastNewsUpdates: true
            			}
            		},
            	]
            };
            
            /*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
            if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}
            
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              sdetweil @jimb
              last edited by

              @jimb you are still not using the code block , which makes this hard to read…

              Sam

              How to add modules

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                sdetweil @jimb
                last edited by sdetweil

                @jimb said in Modifying the Config File:

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

                you obviously didn’t copy everything

                the syntax requires every { to have a matching }
                and every [ and matching ]
                and every " a matching "

                Sam

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                  jimb
                  last edited by

                  Sam, Guess who? I got the Config.js straightened out and MM was starting fine. This was with the MMM-Config text added to the file.

                  The I attempted to follow the steps to add the module code to the module sub-folder.

                  1. Clicked on the green button in your instructions and pasted the link into the terminal prefaced by ‘git clone’. It ‘cloned’ into the modules directory without errors.
                  2. I ran ‘MPM install’ and it executed without errors
                  3. From the terminal I started MM, by executing NPM Start.
                  4. It started loading, but had errors then stopped.
                  5. I was unable to copy text of the loading (w/errors) because the terminal times out.
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                    sdetweil @jimb
                    last edited by sdetweil

                    @jimb

                    1. npm install, all lower case
                    2. in the mm folder?, all lower case
                    3. maybe a picture?
                    4. don’t understand this, what terminal window

                    mm will always start, even to put up a dumb message. ctrl-c to stop it

                    Sam

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                      jimb
                      last edited by

                      Sam, I was able to grab the text from the terminal running on my computer- this was after starting MM

                      /home/rutspi/MagicMirror$ npm start

                      magicmirror@2.25.0 start
                      DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

                      [11.12.2023 19:08.13.289] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.25.0
                      [11.12.2023 19:08.13.298] [LOG] Loading config …
                      [11.12.2023 19:08.13.303] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
                      [11.12.2023 19:08.13.308] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
                      [11.12.2023 19:08.13.311] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
                      [11.12.2023 19:08.13.338] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
                      [11.12.2023 19:08.13.339] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
                      [11.12.2023 19:08.13.352] [ERROR] (node:1623) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Cannot find module ‘deep-object-diff’
                      Require stack:

                      • /home/rutspi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Config/node_helper.js
                      • /home/rutspi/MagicMirror/js/app.js
                      • /home/rutspi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js
                      • /home/rutspi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js
                      • at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1084:15
                        at Function. (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:117576)
                        at Module._resolveFilename (/home/rutspi/MagicMirror/node_modules/module-alias/index.js:49:29)
                        at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:929:27
                        at Function._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13327)
                        at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1150:19)
                        at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:110:18)
                        at Object. (/home/rutspi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Config/node_helper.js:10:14)
                        at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1271:14)
                        at Object…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1326:10)
                        at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1126:32)
                        at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:967:12
                        at Function._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13327)
                        at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1150:19)
                        at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:110:18)
                        at loadModule (/home/rutspi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:180:19)
                        (Use electron --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created)
                        [11.12.2023 19:08.13.353] [ERROR] (node:1623) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag --unhandled-rejections=strict (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
                      [1623:1211/190814.008170:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(590)] Failed to call
                      ``` method: org.freedesktop.portal.Settings.Read: object_path= /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop was not provided by any .service files
                      MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
                      MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
                      MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
                      MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied (search paths /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
                      failed to load driver: kms_swrast
                      MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied (search paths /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
                      failed to load swrast driver
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                        sdetweil @jimb
                        last edited by sdetweil

                        @jimb said in Modifying the Config File:

                        Cannot find module ‘deep-object-diff’

                        yeh, you missed a step

                        Clone this repo into ~/MagicMirror/modules directory.
                        
                        cd MMM-Config    <---- this one
                        
                        npm install
                        

                        I’ve updated the install steps

                        1. cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
                        
                        2. git clone https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Config
                        
                        3. cd MMM-Config
                        
                        4. npm install
                        

                        Sam

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