I cant get my Calender or my MMMBitcoin to work, any help please?

[clarkcrew32]

I havent been able to get anything on my calender to show, i think its cuz its not a .ical? Im trying to get the color full weeks view but got nothing but what defualt top left looks like when installed.

I tried to install MMMBitcoin as well but nothing. Do i need to do more than just type in the nano.config.js?

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 the calendar module ONLY processes ics files…
there is no embedded view support.

you can use one of the modules that does iframe and view the calendar that way
or use the default with ICS and use something like MMM-CalendarExt3 or MMM-MiniMonth to see a wall calendar view

on bitcoin
can you show the message output from npm start
if you are using pm2 to autolaunch MM, then
pm2 logs --lines=xxxx
where xxx is some number of the most recent lines, default 15 (may need 100 or more to view that far back_

[clarkcrew32]

@sdetweil how do i clear my config.js and start from default?

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32

cd ~/MagicMirror/config
cp config.js.sample config.js

that copies the sample we provide

[clarkcrew32]

@sdetweil awesome thakn you, anyway for me to check for errors before i leave nano config.js screen?

[clarkcrew32]

@sdetweil you are like gold lol

still cant get this to work tho as i found a way to do .ics file calender

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 that fetch us on every 7 days

during dev i would change it to a few minutes 5*60*1000

another thing to test

from a terminal window try to download the ics

curl -sL  the_cal_url >somefile.txt

then examine the contents of somefile.txt
for BEGIN:VEVENT…

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 check for errors

not in nano
but you can run the checker

npm run config:check

we do that on every startup now and fail if there is some problem.

[raymondjspigot]

@clarkcrew32 hiya I’m not familiar with the MMM-Bitcoin module, but just taking a look at the github page for it at https://github.com/valmassoi/MMM-bitcoin it doesn’t look like the install instructions are complete (it only suggests adding the module config to your config.js)

AFAIK to install a module to your mirror, you’re going to need to clone the repository to your modules directory, as well as add its config.

(apologies, you might know to do this all already, but just to make sure …)

try going

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules
git clone https://github.com/valmassoi/MMM-bitcoin

and the module should be cloned to your modules directory

then add the config entry into your config.js file, save the changes and try running your MagicMirror again.

(I don’t see any obvious typos for the MMM-Bitcoin entry in your config.js screenshot at the top, it looks like you edited it with nano just fine the first time).

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 the bitcoin module has a problem.
it uses s library we stopped shipping 3 years ago.
but the author didn’t document its use.

so, in the module folder do
npm install request

[clarkcrew32]

@sdetweil

im geting an error at the very last line here

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 that last },

should not have a comma

the collapsed structure looks like this (for example, ignore individual values)

  var config = {
    address: "0.0.0.0",
     port: 8090,
    basePath: "/",
    language: "en",
    serverOnly: "local",
    locale: "en-US",
    logLevel: [
      "INFO",
      "LOG",
      "WARN",
      "ERROR"
    ],
    timeFormat: 24,
    units: "metric",
    electronOptions: {
      x: "2560",
      y: "0"
    },
    useHttps: false,
    ipWhitelist: [],
    modules: [

    ]  // <--- end of modules
  }  // <--- end of confg:
;  //<<------- note this is not a comma

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

[clarkcrew32]

@sdetweil i cant figure this out, what should that section be

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 that should work,
if not show the error

[clarkcrew32]

@sdetweil

ok i figured that out so i have a nice start here but i noticed allthese errors wheni go to run it, any idea what the errors are?

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 no idea, another weird electron useless warning

[clarkcrew32]

@sdetweil

Well im very appreciative of your help, i got everything kinda running. I think my screen is too small as some things are blended in. My next goal here is to get some color and to add some sports schedules. Any idea for those? I either have to add multiple calenders or put it into one calender but google isnt working like that for some reason.

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 the MM calendar cal can process multiple urls at once and merge them
calendars[
{url: cal1},
{url: cal2},
]

or you can run multiple instances of the calendar module and put them where ever
if you use the color enabling options you can have colored text and symbols

we only process ICS files… not embedding the google wall cal view

sports, see the 3rd party module list in the top banner here

[sdetweil]

@clarkcrew32 can this be marked resolved?