Modifying the Config File

jimb

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

sdetweil

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

I didn’t write it

jimb

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-

/*
* MagicMirrorÂ² 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 MagicMirrorÂ² 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;}

sdetweil

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

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 "

jimb

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.

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.
I ran ‘MPM install’ and it executed without errors
From the terminal I started MM, by executing NPM Start.
It started loading, but had errors then stopped.
I was unable to copy text of the loading (w/errors) because the terminal times out.

sdetweil

@jimb

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

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

jimb

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

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

jimb

Sam, all is working OK again. Thanks! FYI, my capitalizations were for emphasis only, not copied or used.

Now, real dumb question "How is “MMM-Config” invoked?

sdetweil

@jimb said in Modifying the Config File:

How is “MMM-Config” invoked?

from the doc

showQR OPTIONAL false Show a QR code on the MM screen to allow quick access to the configuration form

Otherwise, use a browser to open

http://MM_IP_Address:MM_Port/modules/MMM-Config/review

jimb

Sam, you can stick a fork in this one as I don’t need any more help at this point. Thanks for all the assistance!

sdetweil

@jimb is mmm-config working or just moved on?

jimb

Sam, moving on as I want to build the actual frame for the Magic Mirror and not spend this amount of time on the code which is difficult to understand. Not your fault, but mine. :-)

sdetweil

@jimb no problem. come back when you’re ready.