Troubleshooting Positions

sdetweil

@roaminMirror if you look at the messages from npm start you should see an error maybe

one of the ideas was to make the positions extendable/customizable…
currently you have to edit 5 files.

SO, I added code to read the index.html file, which has the positions/regions used defined, in the server side where I can read a file
BUT I need to pass that info to the browser side code that checks it…
SO, I WRITE the list of positions to a file js/positions.js

someone else reported that they got a permission denied on this write…
(cause they had used sudo to install MM… oops)
it also fails on synology nas drives under docker, if the storage is created by a synology user , and accessed from the docker user(1000)

you can erase that file, js/positions.js
and it will be recreated

I added a new message to the next release about this permissions problem, instead of crashing

roaminMirror

@roaminMirror Thank you for your reply. What are the 5 files that I will need to edit to have the positions be recoginized and allowed in the positions.js file? I found that editing it manually it will, as you mentioned, recreate itself in the original manner. I am assuming it is gathering it’s array from another location butI am not sure what file is creating that positions.js file with this const modulePositions=[“fullscreen_below”]e with the array .

The only position that is working is Fullscreen_Below for some reason. Sorry I am just not understanding.

sdetweil

@roaminMirror can you show me ~/MagicMirror/index.html
that is the file i read for the regions

it should not be changed unless you ate adding new regions

also post the contents of ~/MagicMirror/js/positions.js

sdetweil

@roaminMirror see the doc on module position

see the note

roaminMirror

I haven’t made any changes to the index.html file. The config.js is unchanged as well as the positions.js file.

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>MagicMirror²</title>
    <meta name="google" content="notranslate" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />
    <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
    <meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />

    <link rel="icon" href="data:;base64,iVBORw0KGgo=" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="fonts/roboto.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vendor/node_modules/animate.css/animate.min.css" />
    <!-- custom.css is loaded by the loader.js to make sure it's loaded after the module css files. -->

    <script type="text/javascript">
      window.mmVersion = "#VERSION#";
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="region fullscreen below"><div class="container"></div></div>
    <div class="region top bar">
      <div class="container"></div>
      <div class="top_bar"><div class="container"></div></div>
      <div class="region top center"><div class="container"><clock /></div></div>
      <div class="region top right"><div class="container"></div></div>
    </div>
    <div class="region upper third"><div class="container"></div></div>
    <div class="region middle center"><div class="container"></div></div>
    <div class="region lower third">
      <div class="container"><br /></div>
    </div>
    <div class="region bottom bar">
      <div class="container"></div>
      <div class="region bottom left"><div class="container"></div></div>
      <div class="region bottom center"><div class="container"></div></div>
      <div class="region bottom right"><div class="container"></div></div>
    </div>
    <div class="region fullscreen above"><div class="container"></div></div>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="vendor/node_modules/nunjucks/browser/nunjucks.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/defaults.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="#CONFIG_FILE#"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="vendor/vendor.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="modules/default/defaultmodules.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="modules/default/utils.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/logger.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="translations/translations.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/translator.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/class.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/module.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/loader.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/socketclient.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/animateCSS.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/positions.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/main.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

![positions.png](/assets/uploads/files/1735328208567-positions.png)

sdetweil

@roaminMirror cant attach files, only their text as a paste

sdetweil

@roaminMirror are you running on Windows?

roaminMirror

@sdetweil

Yes I am running on windows for the time being until I am ready to move it to a RPI.

The positions.js file is

const modulePositions=["fullscreen_below"]

If I attempt to change it and then start the server with npm run start it will revert back to the above code.

sdetweil

@roaminMirror interesting… I don’t see this problem on windows…

anyhow

edit js/utils.js
at the end is the function

getModulePositions () {
		// if not already discovered
		if (modulePositions.length === 0) {
			// get the lines of the index.html
			const lines = fs.readFileSync(indexFileName).toString().split(os.EOL);

change that last line to

                       const lines = fs.readFileSync(indexFileName).toString().split('\n');

sdetweil

@roaminMirror I was able to recreate this on windows…

opened issue #3662 and submitted fix #3663
change to ‘\n’ as I proposed