MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call

Jose1701

Hi,

I`m new to magicmirror and I like the CallMonitor a lot.

Everthing works fine for me except the arrows and colours. I installed MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call. I put the necessary information in the conifg as ou can see:

{
		module: 'MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call',
		position: 'top_right',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in left or right regions.
		config: {
			showDirection: "true",
			colorEnabled: "true",
		}
			
	},


{
		module: 'MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3',
		position: 'bottom_right',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in left or right regions.
		header: "Letzte Anrufe", // This is optional
		config: {
			// See 'Configuration options' for more information.
			showContactsStatus: "true",
            	  fritzIP: "192.168.178.1",
            	  showContactsStatus: "true",
            	  maximumCallDistance: "240",
                        maximumCalls: "4",
                        reloadContactsInterval: "1",
			showOutgoing: "true",
			colorEnabled: "true",
                        password: "******",
		}
	},

An idea what am I doing wrong?

Regards

Jose

rkorell

@Jose1701 Dear Jose,
you are referring to my post but may I’m the wrong person.
You may ask the developer, @xIExodusIx, too.

As I’m not knowing exactly what your problem is, I just can guess what’s going on…
from configuration perspective I do not see an issue - mine is similar.
As I wrote before I only have ‘MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3’ in use, NOT ‘MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call’,

For ‘MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3’ I’m aware of some problems, but I do not know if this aligns with your problems.

do you have the right (actual) fork? in my case this was https://github.com/xIExodusIx/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3.git
I’m not sure if this is correct: In your config a username is missing. As far as I’m aware of you have to use a username/password combination - therefore I remember that I had to create a separate user for using the module.
there were some requirements for the module - some python libraries as I remember correctly. - Do you have installed them in a proper version?

This is the “guessing” version.
If you could describe the “problem” more exact or concrete may we get other ideas…

Good luck!
Regards,
Ralf

Jose1701

@rkorell

Hi,

sorry for the late response but I was ill and laying in bed.

I will have a look. Actually I have the following “proofed”.

@rkorell said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

do you have the right (actual) fork? in my case this was https://github.com/xIExodusIx/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3.git

Yes, I’m using this one, too.

@rkorell said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

I’m not sure if this is correct: In your config a username is missing. As far as I’m aware of you have to use a username/password combination - therefore I remember that I had to create a separate user for using the module.

Well, until now I didn’t need more. Everything is working fine except the arrows and colours. But I will see if sth. is needed.

@rkorell said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

there were some requirements for the module - some python libraries as I remember correctly. - Do you have installed them in a proper version?

I think I have the right ones and up to date but I will have a look, too.

Thanks so far.

Kind regards

Jose

Jose1701

said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

I’m not sure if this is correct: In your config a username is missing. As far as I’m aware of you have to use a username/password combination - therefore I remember that I had to create a separate user for using the module.
Well, until now I didn’t need more. Everything is working fine except the arrows and colours. But I will see if sth. is needed.

That was the reason. Don`t know it shows the calls without a password but not the arrows.

Now everything is working fine.

Thanks a greets

Jose

Mathes75

@xiexodusix - I set up my MagicMirror from scratch and now wanted to integrate the FRITZ-Callmonitor to it, unfortunately with no luck. No calls are displayed, the phonebook has non-stop rotating icon. In the docker logs (Yes, I’m using latest MagicMirrorOS with integrated Docker) I get the following error:

[2026-01-11 02:10:11.646] [ERROR] [app] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception... 
[2026-01-11 02:10:11.684] [ERROR] [app] Error: spawn python3 ENOENT
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:285:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:483:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn python3',
  path: 'python3',
  spawnargs: [
    '/opt/magic_mirror/modules/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3/fritz_access.py',
    '-i',
    '192.168.0.1',
    '-p',
    '*********',
    '-u',
    'magicmirror'
  ]
} 
[2026-01-11 02:10:11.686] [ERROR] [app] MagicMirror² will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?

As you can see, I have created username and password only for MM.

Starting fritzconnection from (host) commandline works, incomming calls are registered and shown in Terminal.

karsten13

@Mathes75

probably python missing, see https://khassel.gitlab.io/magicmirror/faq/dependencies/#use-the-fat-image

You can change the image in the .env file.

Mathes75

@karsten13 to get this right: Using the fat image would have at least python on board. And to get everything to work I would need to add a script, adding the dependencies for MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3:

Execute npm install to install the dependencies.
(Optional) Execute sudo apt-get install python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev && sudo pip install --break-system-packages fritzconnection to allow access to your FRITZ!Box phone book and recent calls. This can take a few minutes.

Will definitely give it a try!

Mathes75

Hello @karsten13,
I have changed the docker image to fat in .env file. Unfortunately, after pulling the docker image, the script stopped with error: No such container: 1b169eacdb711[~35 more numbers/letters].
Magic Mirror stopped working :( What did I do wrong?

karsten13

@Mathes75

which script?

show content of “the script” and output of docker compose config

Mathes75

@karsten13
Sorry for being that unspecific. I changed the .env file in the “Docker image to use” section:

# Docker Images to use:
MM_IMAGE="karsten13/magicmirror:v2.34.0_fat"
LABWC_IMAGE="karsten13/labwc:latest"
MMPM_IMAGE="karsten13/mmpm:latest"
WATCHTOWER_IMAGE="ghcr.io/nicholas-fedor/watchtower:latest"

Executed cd /opt/mm/run && docker compose up -d --force-recreate and the download started. After successfully pulling the image, Terminal stopped here:

 ✔ Image karsten13/magicmirror:fat Pulled                                318.2s 
   ✔ 304150113e8d                  Pull complete                          97.1s 
   ✔ 964f5c44c7bd                  Pull complete                           0.9s 
   ✔ ac8996972af0                  Pull complete                           0.9s 
   ✔ 3ee9d8e5c8b3                  Pull complete                         131.8s 
   ✔ f9b5315e0a0e                  Pull complete                           0.8s 
   ✔ 5e7a4985a616                  Pull complete                           0.7s 
   ✔ 9f175b8c171e                  Pull complete                          98.7s 
   ✔ c1be2df81e57                  Pull complete                           0.7s 
   ✔ 4f4fb700ef54                  Pull complete                           0.0s 
   ✔ 9dcfcb600955                  Pull complete                           1.0s 
   ✔ 0902543587b7                  Pull complete                         212.6s 
   ✔ 6454a8f98e11                  Pull complete                         314.9s 
   ✔ fe8e38a18048                  Pull complete                          97.6s 
   ✔ a4662295f62c                  Pull complete                           0.9s 
   ✔ c5dcf86b0f8a                  Pull complete                           1.0s 
 ✔ Network magicmirror_default     Created                                 0.4s 
 ✘ Container 1b169eacdb71          Error response from daemon: No such container: 1b169eacdb711404e12c838a79de243c677daaaea260867d04c133a86cc3025b 6.8s

Output of docker compose config:

name: magicmirror
services:
  labwc:
    container_name: labwc
    environment:
      LAB_WC_HIDE_CURSOR: "true"
      RANDR_PARAMS: ""
      RANDR_POLL: 1m
      XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: /tmp/labwc
    image: karsten13/labwc:latest
    networks:
      default: null
    privileged: true
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: /tmp/labwc
        target: /tmp/labwc
        bind: {}
      - type: bind
        source: /run/udev
        target: /run/udev
        bind: {}
  magicmirror:
    container_name: mm
    depends_on:
      labwc:
        condition: service_healthy
        restart: true
        required: true
    environment:
      DISPLAY: unix:0.0
      ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: "0"
      MM_CUSTOMCSS_FILE: css/custom.css
      MM_MODULES_DIR: modules
      MM_OVERRIDE_DEFAULT_MODULES: "true"
      MM_SCENARIO: electron
      MM_SHOW_CURSOR: "false"
      WAYLAND_DISPLAY: wayland-0
      XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: /tmp/labwc
    image: karsten13/magicmirror:v2.34.0_fat
    network_mode: host
    privileged: true
    restart: always
    shm_size: "268435456"
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: /tmp/.X11-unix
        target: /tmp/.X11-unix
        bind: {}
      - type: bind
        source: /home/pi/.Xauthority
        target: /home/node/.Xauthority
        bind: {}
      - type: bind
        source: /tmp/labwc
        target: /tmp/labwc
        bind: {}
      - type: bind
        source: /opt/mm/mounts/config
        target: /opt/magic_mirror/config
        bind: {}
      - type: bind
        source: /opt/mm/mounts/modules
        target: /opt/magic_mirror/modules
        bind: {}
      - type: bind
        source: /opt/mm/mounts/css/custom.css
        target: /opt/magic_mirror/css/custom.css
        bind: {}
    post_start:
      - command:
          - /bin/sh
          - -c
          - |
            if [ "init" = "init" ]; then
              # update volume permissions
              chown -R 1000:1000 config modules css/custom.css
              chmod -R 777 config modules css/custom.css
            fi
            if command -v node_modules/.bin/electron > /dev/null; then
              # if electron is installed then start dbus-daemon to avoid errors in the logs
              dbus-daemon --system || true
            fi
        user: root
networks:
  default:
    name: magicmirror_default

karsten13

@Mathes75

looks like there is an old container but no idea why docker is unable to remove it.

You can try

cd /opt/mm/run
docker compose down
docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq)
docker compose up -d

Mathes75

@karsten13
Doesn´t look good. I’m too noob about Docker to really understand what’s going on:

pi@magicmirrorMB:~ $ cd /opt/mm/run/
pi@magicmirrorMB:/opt/mm/run $ docker compose down
[+] down 1/1
 ✔ Container 1b169eacdb71 Removed                                          0.0s 
pi@magicmirrorMB:/opt/mm/run $ docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq)
Error response from daemon: No such container: 1b169eacdb71
pi@magicmirrorMB:/opt/mm/run $ docker compose up -d
WARN[0000] No services to build                         
[+] up 2/2
 ✔ Network magicmirror_default Created                                     0.2s 
 ✔ Container mm                Created                                     0.9s

After last line just nothing happens. No prompt, no display on mirror.
Can I check where the strange container is called or where the reference is?

karsten13

@Mathes75

show docker ps -a.

From the logs it looks like the strange container was deleted but I see no labwc container.

Mathes75

@karsten13

pi@magicmirrorMB:/opt/mm/run $ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                    COMMAND            CREATED      STATUS                    PORTS     NAMES
1b169eacdb71   karsten13/labwc:latest   "/entrypoint.sh"   8 days ago   Exited (128) 2 days ago             
pi@magicmirrorMB:/opt/mm/run $

What? There must be something completely wrong…

Mathes75

@karsten13
Is there a way to reload the images from scratch, delete them from the RPi without losing the customization?

karsten13

@Mathes75

really strange, the 1b1... is still there …

try docker system prune -f and check after this again docker ps -a

Mathes75

@karsten13

After docker compose down, prune resulted in Total reclaimed space: 0B .

When trying to start the containers and running the commands:

pi@magicmirrorMB:/opt/mm/run $ docker compose up -d
WARN[0000] No services to build                         
[+] up 2/2
 ✔ Network magicmirror_default Created                                                                               0.2s 
 ✔ Container mm                Created                                                                               0.5s 
Error response from daemon: No such container: 1b169eacdb711404e12c838a79de243c677daaaea260867d04c133a86cc3025b
pi@magicmirrorMB:/opt/mm/run $ docker system prune -f
Deleted Containers:
b04e79ead19ae7e42b7c7899f8e9b4b2d4f870770362c684bfadbfdaae6725aa

Deleted Networks:
magicmirror_default

Total reclaimed space: 4.096kB
pi@magicmirrorMB:/opt/mm/run $ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                    COMMAND            CREATED      STATUS                    PORTS     NAMES
1b169eacdb71   karsten13/labwc:latest   "/entrypoint.sh"   9 days ago   Exited (128) 2 days ago

I think the easiest way is to start from scratch. Save the config.js, remember the modules and just reinstall. Switch to fat image again and fiddle around with FRITZ stuff. Sorry for keeping you busy and thanks a lot for your help and patience!

Let me know if you want to finish troubleshooting ;-)

karsten13

@Mathes75

one thing (if not already done) would be a reboot and then again the prune command.

Otherwise start from scratch …

Mathes75

@karsten13

To make it short - same. Will start from scratch and let you know.

Mathes75

Short and final update on this - I give up.
Reimaged the card, edited the .env file before first start, so directly pulled the fat image. Set up my standard Modules, everything up and running - except MMM-FRITZ-BoxCallmonitor - and started to test mounts to map the fritzconnection Python scripts… as again, a strange container showed up:

pi@magicmirroros:/opt/mm/run $ docker compose up -d
WARN[0000] No services to build                         
[+] up 2/2
 ✘ Container b053acabeef9 Error response from daemon: No such container: b053acabeef9f142eb3382656732bee6b75d549c10ec2ef80da27ec2c60946d6                                          2.2s 
 ✔ Container labwc        Recreated                                                                                                                                                2.2s 
Error response from daemon: No such container: b053acabeef9f142eb3382656732bee6b75d549c10ec2ef80da27ec2c60946d6

Now I am sure my trusty SDcard is corrupt. Thanks @karsten13 for all the troubleshooting and help! I have learned a lot around Docker last days.

Will get a new card and see some time. Other projects requiring my attention.