How do notifications work?

[A Former User]

@Sruc91 as i know, you are right.
Or you can build your ‘translator’ module which send CURRENT_PROFILE message when BTN_PRESSED message is coming between btn module and prflswtchr module… Its better to keep original legacy codes.

[j.e.f.f]

@Sruc91 well yeah, but the way MMM-Buttons works, it would send the same payload each time. So if you configured the button press to send the notification ‘CURRENT_PROFILE’ with the payload ‘Jeff’, each button press would be a request to show Jeff’s profile.

So you need something that always receives the same notification/payload pair to do something different each time with it. That’s what my modification to ‘MMM-ProfileSwitcher’ does, or you can do as @Sean says and write another module to keep track of which profile is next and relay the ‘CURRENT_PROFILE’ notification to the MMM-ProfileSwitcher.

[Sruc91]

@j-e-f-f That makes sense, thank you very much.

Is there any way that I can track those notifications? Like for example, if I send a notification with the MMM-Buttons, is it registered anyway that I can check?

[j.e.f.f]

@Sruc91 you’ll see output in Electron’s console when the event is broadcast.

[cowboysdude]

@Sruc91

console.log(your output);