MMM-NetworkScanner

BenNewsome

@pugsly Sorry thats from my update. Have you done a NPM install inside the module as it has a new dependency?

Hopefully this will fix the problem.

pugsly

@BenNewsome yes I did

pugsly

@BenNewsome I see that it installed two things under \Magicmirror\modules\MMM-NetworkScanner\node_modules

one dir called ping which is what the error says it can’t find
the other called sudo (that one kinda worries me).

Anyway it still doesn’t work.

BenNewsome

@pugsly Hi pugsly,
sudo is for arp-scan which is the MAC address checker as this requires sudo to be called.

Ping is the one I added which just calls the ping command from node.

Could you try editing the file: /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NetworkScanner/node_helper.js

On line 10 it says
const ping = require('ping')

Could you replace it with:
const ping = require("ping");

(Change the speach marks and add a semicolon.)

I have no idea if this is the reason as it works fine on my system, but it is my current best guess.

pugsly

@BenNewsome Sorry… same thing, still says can’t find module ‘ping’.

BenNewsome

@pugsly I think I have managed to replicate your error.

Could you run the following command.

(cd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NetworkScanner && npm install)

npm install needs running from the module directory so that it downloads the npm ping module. When I delete the ping module I get the error you do, and when I run the command above the error goes away.

derek7467

@BenNewsome any easy way to change the text color? I’m able to change text size via custom.css but the color doesn’t seem to take.

Mykle1

@ianperrin said in MMM-NetworkScanner:

there no such thing as a stupid question so keep asking away…

Hi, and please help. Thank you.

I’ve got this module running but the only devices that will show as active are the Github from the sample config and the showUnknown devices which I have turned off. All others that I have added appear as offline. I’m using the MAC addresses that I got from my router and they are correct and all in lower case. I read above where that might be an issue. I did git pull and npm install in the MMM-NetworkScanner folder.

{
        		module: 'MMM-NetworkScanner',
        		position: 'top_left', 
        		config: {
			devices: [
				{ ipAddress: "github.com", name: "Github", icon: "globe"},
				{ ipAddress: "192.168.1.4", name: "MykleDesktop", icon: "desktop"},
                    		{ macAddress: "mac.address.all.lower.case", name: "DoveMBP", icon: "laptop"},
                    		{ macAddress: "mac.address.all.lower.case", name: "MyklesiPhone", icon: "mobile"},
                    		{ macAddress: "mac.address.all.lower.case", name: "JayAndroid", icon: "mobile"},
                    		{ macAddress: "mac.address.all.lower.case", name: "DonnaMBP", icon: "laptop"},
                    		{ macAddress: "mac.address.all.lower.case", name: "DonnaiPhone", icon: "mobile"},
				{ macAddress: "mac.address.all.lower.case", name: "NikkiiPhone", icon: "mobile"},
                		],
            			showUnknown: false,  
        			showOffline: true, 
        			showLastSeen: true,
        			keepAlive: 180,
        			updateInterval: 10,
        			residents: "Mobile", // I tried this with each name of the devices above and each icon name
        			occupiedCMD: {notification: 'TEST', payload: {action: 'occupiedCMD'}},
        			vacantCMD:   {notification: 'TEST', payload: {action: 'vacantCMD'}},
        		}

derek7467

@Mykle1 looks like when i use IP, it shows offline vs online accurately. When i use MAC or a web address, it doesnt. Something is wrong with the scan by mac option.

pugsly

@BenNewsome
Removed it, did a new clone, and ran the npm install (See Below). Still getting the error that ping is missing and all of my MAC machines are grayed out.

pi@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NetworkScanner $ cd …
pi@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror/modules $ sudo rm -r ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Netw orkScanner
pi@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror/modules $ git clone https://github.com/ianperrin/MM M-NetworkScanner.git
Cloning into ‘MMM-NetworkScanner’…
remote: Counting objects: 132, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done.
remote: Total 132 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 116
Receiving objects: 100% (132/132), 80.07 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (74/74), done.
Checking connectivity… done.
pi@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror/modules $ cd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Netwo rkScanner && npm install
ping@0.1.10 node_modules/ping
└── q@1.4.1

sudo@1.0.3 node_modules/sudo
├── inpath@1.0.2
├── pidof@1.0.2
└── read@1.0.7 (mute-stream@0.0.7)
pi@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NetworkScanner $

mm-0 (err): at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:35:12)
mm-0 (err): at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
mm-0 (err): at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
mm-0 (err): at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
mm-0 (err): at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NetworkScanner/node_helper.js:10:14)
mm-0 (err): at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)
mm-0 (err): at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:565:10)
mm-0 (err): at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
mm-0 (err): at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)
mm-0 (err): { Error: Cannot find module ‘ping’
mm-0 (err): at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:455:15)
mm-0 (err): at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:35:12)
mm-0 (err): at Function.Module._load (module.js:403:25)
mm-0 (err): at Module.require (module.js:483:17)
mm-0 (err): at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
mm-0 (err): at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NetworkScanner/node_helper.js:10:14)
mm-0 (err): at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)
mm-0 (err): at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:565:10)
mm-0 (err): at Module.load (module.js:473:32)
mm-0 (err): at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12) code: ‘MODULE_NOT_FOUND’ }

mm-0 (out): { macAddress: ‘18:b4:30:1d:f6:50’,
mm-0 (out): name: ‘Nest Thermostat’,
mm-0 (out): icon: ‘dot-circle-o’ },

derek7467

Only difference between you and I is you run the install with the &&. Remove it again, rerun from the beginning and manually CD into the directory and run the install from there. Skip using the && to install all in one shot.

pugsly

@derek7467
as you said, IP works fine MAC doesn’t… MAC was working up until the update where you could add the ‘last seen xxx min ago’ option.

derek7467

@pugsly yea I’m in same boat. I haven’t read all the code just yet but I imagine the way it performs the ARP scan by Mac is the culprit. For now I set my untangle router to serve out static DHCP leases and thus my problem is gone.

Speedy-one

Me too o.O

slametps

@pugsly Unfortunately, mine is not working anymore, neither MAC or IP. :sob:

slametps

@derek7467

@derek7467 said in MMM-NetworkScanner:

Only difference between you and I is you run the install with the &&. Remove it again, rerun from the beginning and manually CD into the directory and run the install from there. Skip using the && to install all in one shot.

Still no luck. Neither MAC or IP.

Mykle1

@slametps

This worked for me. If you have FIOS you might want to try it. If not, if you have the ability to set static ip addresses in your own system, you could try that

I went into my FIOS router and assigned a “static lease” on the IP addresses of the devices that would not show in NetworkScanner with their MAC addresses. Went back into my config.js and changed the macAddress to ipAddress for each device and put in the static IP addresses I just assigned in the router.
It’s working now, all except for the machine I am working on now (my desktop). It doesn’t show as active, even with a static lease on the IP address. That’s sort of alright, as I really just wanted the cell phones to appear, which they do, but odd,

For those with FIOS that want to try:

Sign in to Verizon router. Click Advanced tab (almost top right). Click yes to proceed. Click IP Address Distribution bottom right. Click Connection List almost in the middle. On the left, find the device that you want to assign a static lease IP address to. On the right, in the Action column, click the Edit icon. Tick the Static Lease Type box. Click Apply. That is now a static IP address. GO back one page and look in the Lease Type column. It will show you the Static designation.
Peace

slametps

@Mykle1 I’m already assigned static IP for all my devices connected to the router. When I set config showUnknown: true, the module display all detected devices (of course only display MAC addresses in upper-case), instead displaying the proper device name I set in the config.

Mykle1

@slametps Yes, at first the same thing happened to me.

This might seem obvious but did you change your config.js to ipAddress instead of macAddress?

slametps

@Mykle1

@Mykle1 said in MMM-NetworkScanner:

@slametps Yes, at first the same thing happened to me.

This might seem obvious but did you change your config.js to ipAddress instead of macAddress?

I add new entries with ipAddress, but did not recognized. All displayed MAC (with showUnknown: true) already defined as entries with macAddress, but it said as Unknown devices.