http request

[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.

[acdacd2]

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[Eunanibus]

Can you Zip up and upload your config file somewhere I can download it and I’ll take a look? Somewhere like pastebin.

[KirAsh4]

Hey @acdacd2, please use proper Markdown when posting code. It really isn’t that hard to do and it makes it so much easier and pleasant for others to read, and possibly find errors quicker. Specifically you need to use back ticks before and after your code:

     ```
     like so. Note that a back tick is not the same as the normal apostrophe, ` versus ' .
     ```