No Web UI with MMM-FastNotes

[sdetweil]

@rvnbrg did you chnage the MM configuration to allow outside systems to access MM?

in config.js

address:"0.0.0.0",  // this means accept incomming connections on any network
ipWhitelist:[],   // do not filter the source system requests

by default, MM is built as a mirror on the wall, with NO access from outside

address:"localhost",  // this means ONLY apps INSIDE the same system can connect
ipWhitelist:["127.0.0.1"...].

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil Yes, current setup in config is

"address": "0.0.0.0",
"ipWhitelist": [],
"locale": "en-US",
"logLevel": [
	"INFO",
	"LOG",
	"WARN",
	"ERROR"
],

[sdetweil]

@rvnbrg the module config has this

   host: "192.168.1.1",  // address of raspberry pi in local network, need for access to WEB UI
    port: 5000,           // port on host where UI will be accessible via web browser

I don’t know that that means…

what url are you using?

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil I have

host: “192.168.78.30”, // address of raspberry pi in local network, need for access to WEB UI
port: 5000, // port on host where UI will be accessible via web browser

Where “192.168.178.30” is the ip adress of my raspberry

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil

So I try to access the Web UI with: 192.168.178.30:5000

[sdetweil]

@rvnbrg said in No Web UI with MMM-FastNotes:

192.168.178.30

that is an odd home network address…

if you do
ip addr

from a terminal window, is that the address you get?

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil This is what I get

xavier@raspberrypi:~ $ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b8:27:eb:69:7b:37 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.178.30/24 brd 192.168.178.255 scope global noprefixroute wlan0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fd48:42be:e531:6cb0:2d2a:6ab4:13e2:1d5a/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
valid_lft 1624sec preferred_lft 1624sec
inet6 fe80::56dd:2b5f:e33f:829e/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

[sdetweil]

@rvnbrg said in No Web UI with MMM-FastNotes:

192.168.178.30

ok, so you should be able to connect to MM using the port from config.js

http://192.168.178.30:8080

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil Yes that works to see the MM on my desktop web browser.
Only the FastNotes WebUI does not load

[sdetweil]

@rvnbrg ok, looking at the code, it looks like there is a python script that provides that UI

so, in the module folder do

python3 FastNotes.py --host 192.168.178.30 --port 5000 --debug

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil That gives me this:

xavier@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-FastNotes $ python3 FastNotes.py --host 192.168.178.30 --port 5000 --debug
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/xavier/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-FastNotes/FastNotes.py”, line 2, in
from backend.fast_notes import start
File “/home/xavier/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-FastNotes/backend/fast_notes.py”, line 1, in
import flask
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/flask/init.py”, line 14, in
from jinja2 import escape
ImportError: cannot import name ‘escape’ from ‘jinja2’ (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/init.py)

[sdetweil]

@rvnbrg said in No Web UI with MMM-FastNotes:

ImportError: cannot import name ‘escape’ from ‘jinja2’ (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/jinja2/init.py)

that explains the error

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil how can I resolve that?

[sdetweil]

@rvnbrg that I don’t know

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil Thank you for your help so far

[sdetweil]

@rvnbrg i would ask the author

[rvnbrg]

@sdetweil i did so but no response yet

[mumblebaj]

@rvnbrg Jinja is a dependency of Flask and Flask V1.X.X uses the escape module from Jinja, however recently support for the escape module was dropped in newer versions of Jinja

To fix this issue, simply update to the newer version of Flask V2.X.X in your requirements.txt where Flask no longer uses the escape module from Jinja.

I see there is a requirements.txt where the version of Flask is specified. Maybe updating that to 2.1.1, which is the recommended version that no longer has a dependency on escape would resolve this.

This is all just guessing. Was trying to figure out how this module hangs together. 🫣

[rvnbrg]

@mumblebaj YES! Got it working! Thank you very very much