MagicMirror Forum
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Unsolved
    • Solved
    • MagicMirror² Repository
    • Documentation
    • 3rd-Party-Modules
    • Donate
    • Discord
    • Register
    • Login
    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
    Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.

    How to check your config for errors. For absolute beginners.

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Troubleshooting
    8 Posts 6 Posters 21.8k Views 7 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • ? Offline
      A Former User @Mykle1
      last edited by

      @Mykle1
      Nice job!
      It has worthy to Pin this article up or archive to FAQ.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
      • B Offline
        Bob
        last edited by

        I’m no developer (but I do love debbugging stuff :), so here are a list of dumb things I have needed to fix at various points

        • Check for missing commas at ends of line (I always add a comma, even if technically the code doesn’t need it)
        • Check for wrong types of Quotation marks. ie, " (double quotes) is not the same as ‘’ (two single quotes) but they look identical in some editors
        • Check for added spaces (and missing spaces)
        • Check CASE (Upper, lower, mixed) - Some modules are case sensitive, some less so.
        • Check your brackets/braces are completed
        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • E Offline
          E3V3A
          last edited by

          Being new to MM, JS, Node, etc myself, it would have been of great help to have some functional and pictorial description of the parts making up a MM Module. Basically an idiots-guide-to-making-your-own-module (and understanding what you are doing). I’d buy it!

          "Everything I do (here) is for free – altruism is the way!"
          MMM-FlightsAbove, MMM-Tabulator, MMM-Assistant (co-maintainer)

          cowboysdudeC strawberry 3.141S 2 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • cowboysdudeC Offline
            cowboysdude Module Developer @E3V3A
            last edited by

            @E3V3A said in How to check your config for errors. For absolute beginners.:

            Being new to MM, JS, Node, etc myself, it would have been of great help to have some functional and pictorial description of the parts making up a MM Module. Basically an idiots-guide-to-making-your-own-module (and understanding what you are doing). I’d buy it!

            Dude until I started with MM I didn’t even know JS but Thanks to a great guy [he knows who he is] that I won’t mention because I don’t want to point people at him and have him overwhelmed with questions…he’s a busy kid :) At any rate I didn’t even know JS but if you want to build a module then look inside one and form your questions and ask them. Many people would be happy to help and explain it to help you out!

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
            • strawberry 3.141S Offline
              strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @E3V3A
              last edited by

              @E3V3A Heres the official documentation https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/blob/master/modules/README.md

              Heres a module template https://github.com/roramirez/MagicMirror-Module-Template

              Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

              E 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • E Offline
                E3V3A @strawberry 3.141
                last edited by

                @strawberry-3.141 Yeah, Thanks. I saw that before, and have already added/corrected some Wiki info in the dev repo. (When is that dev gonna get merged to master, anyway?) Also looked at the Template… very useful.

                "Everything I do (here) is for free – altruism is the way!"
                MMM-FlightsAbove, MMM-Tabulator, MMM-Assistant (co-maintainer)

                strawberry 3.141S 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • strawberry 3.141S Offline
                  strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @E3V3A
                  last edited by

                  @E3V3A the next release should be on 1st of april

                  Please create a github issue if you need help, so I can keep track

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                  • 1 / 1
                  • First post
                    Last post
                  Enjoying MagicMirror? Please consider a donation!
                  MagicMirror created by Michael Teeuw.
                  Forum managed by Sam, technical setup by Karsten.
                  This forum is using NodeBB as its core | Contributors
                  Contact | Privacy Policy