Help... I need help installing 3rd party modules to Magic Mirror 2

[joeytuck]

Thank you for the replies. I did get Magic Mirror working for the initial setup prior to the 3rd party addition. I was missing the cd MMM-Traffic npm install portion. I did the npm install through Tools Open Folder in Terminal the first time. Not sure if that accomplishes the same goal? Itś still giving me the config.js error. Here is what I have for a config file with my personal info and API key copied and pasted directly from Google redacted.

		module: "newsfeed",
		position: "bottom_bar",
		config: {
			feeds: [
				{
					title: "New York Times",
					url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
				}
			],
			showSourceTitle: true,
			showPublishDate: true
		}
	},

{
		module:´MMM-Traffic´,
		position: ´bottom_right´
		classes: ´dimmed medium´,
		config:  {
			api_key: ´

´,
mode: ´driving´,
origin: ´´,
destination: ´´,
arrival_time: ´´,
route_name: ´Home to Work´,
changeColor: true,
showgreen: false,
limitYellow: 5,
limitRed: 20,
traffic_model: ´pessimistic´,
interval: 120000,
showWeekend: true
allTime: true
}
},
]

};

[joeytuck]

		module: "newsfeed",
		position: "bottom_bar",
		config: {
			feeds: [
				{
					title: "New York Times",
					url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
				}
			],
			showSourceTitle: true,
			showPublishDate: true
		}
	},

{
		module:´MMM-Traffic´,
		position: ´bottom_right´
		classes: ´dimmed medium´,
		config:  {
			api_key: ´´,
			mode: ´driving´,
			origin: ´´,
			destination: ´´,
			arrival_time: ´´,
			route_name: ´Home to Work´,
			changeColor: true,
			showgreen: false,
			limitYellow: 5,
			limitRed: 20,
			traffic_model: ´pessimistic´,
			interval: 120000, 
			showWeekend: true
			allTime: true

}
},
]

};

[broberg]

@joeytuck

you are missing a , after showWeekend: true,

[joeytuck]

Good catch. I added the comma, saved the config file and tried pi@raspberrypi: ~/MagicMirror $ npm start To no avail. Do I need to do anything to the MMM-Traffic config.js file defaults?

[broberg]

@joeytuck there is also another comma missing after the position line

[joeytuck]

Added that comma as well and itś still failing. Hereś what Iḿ getting.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

magicmirror@2.1.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
sh run-start.sh

Starting MagicMirror: v2.1.1
Loading config …
WARNING! Could not validate config file. Please correct syntax errors. Starting with default configuration.
Loading module helpers …
Initializing new module helper …
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: helloworld.
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 …
Starting server op port 8080 …
Server started …
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Sockets connected & modules started …
Launching application.

[joeytuck]

This has been kicking my butt for the last day and a half. Learning a lot during the beating though. Do I need to add ’ ’ around numeric values as well?

[joeytuck]

Also, do I need to do anything to the MMM-Traffic.js file defaults like adding the api_key or changing values to match my selections on the config.js file? It seems like it’s really easy when I read the readme files and I’m looking forward to that being the case. Any help in taking a step in the right direction would be much appreciated.

[joeytuck]

Fixed the config errors. Turns out that if you put Drive, instead of Dr, it won’t recognize it. Unfortunately, now Magic Mirror is starting normally but I don’t see the MMM-Traffic module being displayed. I’ve tried multiple screen positions and nothing.

[Anhalter42]

@joeytuck said in Help... I need help installing 3rd party modules to Magic Mirror 2:

Do I need to add ’ ’ around numeric values as well?

Usually you don’t. It distinguishes between (for example) the NUMBER 5 and the TEXT containing “5”. To be sure, you should look at the default values and just do it in the same way. For example, arrival_time seems to require " " even though the given example “1445” also could have been a plain number (I guess the reason is the leading 0 at for example “0800” which gets ignored when inputting as number)

Also, you got some strange quotation marks ´ ´. Until now I thought, only " " and ’ ’ were valid.