Changing compliments

Stacy

@lavolp3 after I make changes to config/config.J’s did I save it as the same file or give it a new name?

Stacy

lavolp3

@Stacy save it as the same file. But please do not use windows programs like word or wordpad to edit it. They will break the file. In windows you should use e.g. notepad or notepad++. On debian/raspbian you can use whatever you like

Stacy

@lavolp3 thanks. I am using nano.

Stacy

@Stacy so, just to clear, I go to modules folder, then default, then compliments, then compliments.js. to edit?

Stacy

@lavolp3 so I go to modules, default, compliments, and change it there? I just want to make sure I am in the right folder. Thank u SO much for helping.

lavolp3

@Stacy No.
I thought you had changed the config/config.js file. This is the central MM config file. If there is one synthax error in this file, the mirror won’t load. Post the content of that here without personal info (like API keys or passwords) OR go into the magicmirror folder and do “npm run config:check”, which will tell you where the error is.

Stacy

@lavolp3 so how do I get to the modules to change them?

Mykle1

@Stacy

MagicMirror/config/config.js is the file you want to edit.

If you edit the actual modules files (which is not recommended) then you risk breaking MM altogether.

doubleT

@Stacy said in Changing compliments:

@lavolp3 so how do I get to the modules to change them?

All the modules get their information from the config.js cruunnerr and Mykle mentioned. You don’t need to change anything in the module folders.

If the module code is broken at the moment, you can rebuild it from – or completely replace it with – the original here if you don’t want to start over again.

This is the basic code for the compliment module to be added/changed/edited in the MagicMirror/config/config.js :

    {
        module: "compliments",
        position: "lower_third",	// This can be any of the regions.
                                        // Best results in one of the middle regions like: lower_third
        config: {
            compliments: {
                anytime: [
                    "Hey!",   // properties are followed by commas – most common mistake
                    "Hello."  // last property within brackets doesn't get a comma
                ],
                morning: [
                    "Hey!"
                ],
                evening: [
                    "Hey!"
                ]
            }
        }
    } // add a comma (,) if another module's config is following

See the comments in the code. The most common mistakes are missing commas or missing brackets.

Stacy

@doubleT So, I am in the directory MagicMirror. I opened nano to the file MagicMirror/config/config.js
I chose the config.js file

I added my city and I’d to the current weat her and weather forecast. I added some compliments as shown above.

When I tried to save I got an error writing to MagicMirror/config/config.js. no such file or directory

doubleT

That’s the correct file.
Try sudo nano MagicMirror/config/config.js if you haven’t used sudo, that gives you advanced rights.

Did you create config.js? I have a suspicion. At the beginning, there’s no config.js, you have to create it. But there’s a sample file.

Let’s check.
You’re in the dir MagicMirror,
cd config change the directory to config
ls list the dir contents. There should be a config.js.sample. If there is also a config.js, ignore the next step.
sudo cp config.js.sample config.js makes a copy of config.js.sample and creates config.js
ls should now show both files.
sudo nano config.js to edit the config.js

Mykle1

2 cents:

If you are struggling with using the terminal (I did) then I highly recommend that you download any one of the many free text editors for code. I use notepad++ (notepadqq for linux). Using such an editor makes a world of difference when editing MM files. You navigate to the file just as you would on your Windows or Mac (by clicking through your folders) and open the file using the text editor. Make your edits. Save. Done. They color the code, making it easy to see mistakes and they keep track of your brackets and such. They should eliminate your quote problem as well.

Peace

Mykle1

This should help you. It’s a pretty damn good tutorial for getting started with your config. :-)

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4528/how-to-create-a-working-config-for-absolute-beginners

Stacy

@doubleT First of all, many thanks to everyone helping.

I do have a config.js file, I checked using the tutorial you gave.

This time i used sudo and it atii won’t let me save, but the changes we made earlier are still in the file. They are not showing up in the MM program, though.

Curious.

doubleT

So there’s a config and when you run the MagicMirror it says there’s a config error. And sudo nano config.js from within MagicMirror/config/ doesn’t work? Cann you go to MagicMirror/config/ and show us what it says when you put in ls -l? (that’s a small letter ‘L’) which will list files with their rights/owners.

Stacy

@doubleT it does not list anything. ![alt text](image url)

Mykle1

@Stacy

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4528/how-to-create-a-working-config-for-absolute-beginners

Stacy

@doubleT pi owns both config.js and config.js.sample

doubleT

Weird, it sounds like there shouldn’t be a problem at all.
Do you have the possibility to edit the file externally and replace it? For example via FTP.
Btw. how do you save the file?