http request

[Eunanibus]

Cool. It should work fine! Hurry up and try it, I made it for you :laughing:

More information about it is here - I posted it for everyone to download.

[acdacd2]

some errors with nom install

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/default/MMM-HTTPRequestDisplay $ npm install
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/package.json’
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/node_modules/node_helper/package.json’
npm WARN modules No description
npm WARN modules No repository field.
npm WARN modules No README data
npm WARN modules No license field.

[KirAsh4]

You shouldn’t need to run 'npm install' inside the module folder unless the author specifically told you to do that.

[acdacd2]

I did that,

Now it’s solved, I copied the .json in the right folder

[Eunanibus]

Awesome. @KirAsh4 is correct - The README has all the instructions so be sure to take a look.

Please let me know how it works cause you’ll be the first person to use it

[KirAsh4]

As a further explanation, 'npm install' is only required if the module you are installing requires other node modules to also be installed. When you first install MagicMirror you have to run 'npm install' to install all the dependencies for it to work, however generally, modules don’t need that. The exception is if someone writes a module that requires another node module that isn’t already installed. So there was no need to run that, nor to copy any '.json' package files anywhere.

[acdacd2]

is that correct ?

{
		module: 'MMM-HTTPRequestDisplay',
		position: 'bottom_bar',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in left or right regions.
		header: 'MMM-HTTPRequestDisplay', // This is optional
		config: {
			accessToken: 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk&mode=xml',
			// See 'Configuration options' for more information.
		}
	},

Note from Moderator: Please use Markdown on code snippets for easier reading.

[Eunanibus]

Sorry, I made a lot of mistakes on the README it seems.

Instead of

accessToken : "http://etc"

use

httpRequestURL: "http://etc"

apologies

[acdacd2]

no problemo,

with this config, black screen

modules: [
	{
		module: 'MMM-HTTPRequestDisplay',
		position: 'bottom_bar',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in left or right regions.
		header: 'MMM-HTTPRequestDisplay', // This is optional
		config: {
			httpRequestURL: 'http://192.168.1.248:8889/status.xml',
			// See 'Configuration options' for more information.
		}
	},

[Eunanibus]

Make sure that you’re not just copy and pasting blindly into your config file.

After each

modules: [
{
etc
},

Note the comma , after the module. That comma should only be there if there are more modules.

Likewise, if you’re pasting it last, you need to make sure the module before it has one, to let the script know there are more modules after the previous one.

So the pattern is

modules: [
{
   module: ‘firstModule’,
   config: {
   option : ""
   }
}, <<< COMMA HERE

modules: [
{
   module: ‘middleModule’,
   config: {
   option : ""
   }
}, <<< COMMA HERE

modules: [
{
   module: ‘last module’,
   config: {
   option : ""
   }
} <<<<< NO COMMA

hope that makes sense. hopefully that’s the problem.