MMM-NewsAPI

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj OK there it works.

Partitioning time…

mumblebaj

@darrenhill If it works while you disabled the other modules then there must be a clash with one of them. Best to see which one and let me know. I can then try and see why it is clashing.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj It’s disagreeing with MMM-Gmailfeed

Commenting that out and the text and graphic appears, restore it and nothing.

Out of interest, what would be the recommended config for MMM-News to get the same (BBC content only, all items)?

I can’t get that to work either, even when MMM-NewsAPI is showing stuff? If possible I would prefer to use MMM-News, as that formatted things better for my mirror layout (as it’s an info-screen I like it vertical and bottom-centre layout).

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.

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill Have made some changes now.

Here with QACode:

And now without QRCODE

Will push the changes shortly

mumblebaj

@DarrenHill Changes have been pushed. You can update the module now.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj - Thanks for the very fast response.

Will update and test.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj said in MMM-NewsAPI:

@DarrenHill Changes have been pushed. You can update the module now.

All up and running - that’s a fix from my side :D
Thanks again for that.

Might have a play with the layout as the pics etc are a bit small (and there’s space to expand things around them in my layout), but I can handle that.

dondula

@mumblebaj
Hi, I have been running your MMM-News module for a couple years now. As of Sunday when my mirror restarted the module no longer shows up anymore. I tried to reinstall it and checked my sources in the config and nothing was altered.

Can you help me try and troubleshoot what could be happening? Let me know what I would need to provide to help. I’m not super savvy with this stuff, the mirror was actually built for me.

Thank you in advance.

sdetweil

@dondula said in MMM-NewsAPI:

. As of Sunday when my mirror refreshed

what does that mean? we don’t have auto update as part of MagicMirror

dondula

@sdetweil
Sorry let me rephrase, I have the mirror auto restart every Sunday and I noticed that’s when the module disappeared. This is for the MMM-News module not sure if this thread is talking about a different one.

I’ve checked my API key which still seems to be valid when testing in a browser. I also deleted all my sources except 1, so I’m not really sure what happened?