MM modules not displaying or no longer refresh after restart

A Former User · Apr 25, 2018, 7:13 AM

Hi All

Need to request some help if I may. It seems my MM has stopped functioning and I can’t
figure out why, rather frustratingly.
Started yesterday after some seemingly innocuous changes I made to config.js (adding MMM-random quote which has now been removed)

Issues as follows:

Default clock displays but does not refresh beyond restart
Default weather forecast does not display
Calendar monthly displays intermittently on refresh or remains “Loading…”
Default news feed does not display

Pasting config.js

 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 *
 * For more information how you can configurate this file
 * See https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#configuration
 *
 */

var config = {
        address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
                              // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
                              // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
                              // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
                              // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
        port: 8080,
        ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
                                                               // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
                                                               // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
                                                               // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
                                                               // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

        language: "en",
        timeFormat: 24,
        units: "metric",

        modules: [
                {
                        module: "alert",
                },
                {
                        module: "updatenotification",
                        position: "top_bar"
                },
                {
                        module: "clock",
                        position: "top_left"
                },
                {
                        module: "calendar",
                        header: "UK Holidays",
                        position: "bottom_left",
                        config: {
                                calendars: [
                                        {
                                                symbol: "calendar-check-o ",
                                                url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics"
                                        }
                                ]
                        }
                },


                {
                       module: "currentweather",
                        position: "top_right",
                        config: {
                                location: "City of London",
                                locationID: "2643741",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
                                appid: "[redacted]"
                        }
                },
                {
                        module: "weatherforecast",
                        position: "top_right",
                        header: "Weather Forecast",
                        config: {
                                location: "City of London",
                                locationID: "2643741",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
                                appid: "[redacted]"
                        }
                },

                                {
                        module: "compliments",
                        position: "top_right",
                        config: {
                                updateInterval: 5000,
                                fadeSpeed: 1000,
                                compliments: {
                                        day_sunny: [
                                                "Today is a sunny day",
                                                "It's a beautiful day"
                                                ],
                                        snow: [
                                                "Snowball battle!"
                                                ],
                                        rain: [
                                                "Don't forget your umbrella"
                                                ],
                                        showers: [
                                                "Looks like it might rain!"
                                                ]
                        }
                      }

                },


                {
                        module: "newsfeed",
                        position: "bottom_bar",
                        config: {
                                feeds: [
                                        {
                                                title: "BBC World News",
                                                url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml"
                                        }
                                ],
                                showSourceTitle: true,
                                showPublishDate: true
                        }
                },
                {
                        module: "MMM-Globe",
                        position: "bottom_right",
                        config: {
                                style: "europeDiscNat",
                                imageSize: 300,
                                ownImagePath:'',
                                updateInterval: 10*60*1000
                        }
                },

                        {
                                module: "calendar_monthly",
                                position: "top_left",
                                config: {
                                                // The config property is optional
                                                // Without a config, a default month view is shown
                                                // Please see the 'Configuration Options' section for more information
                                }
                        }
]


};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

I have run npm run config:check and confirm that there are no syntax errors (presumably would’ve seen black screen otherwise)

I have also run pm2 info MagicMirror and get the following output which I believe shows no obvious issues;

Describing process with id 0 - name MagicMirror 
┌───────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ status            │ online                                     │
│ name              │ MagicMirror                                │
│ restarts          │ 0                                          │
│ uptime            │ 19m                                        │
│ script path       │ /home/pi/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh      │
│ script args       │ N/A                                        │
│ error log path    │ /home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error-0.log │
│ out log path      │ /home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-out-0.log   │
│ pid path          │ /home/pi/.pm2/pids/MagicMirror-0.pid       │
│ interpreter       │ bash                                       │
│ interpreter args  │ N/A                                        │
│ script id         │ 0                                          │
│ exec cwd          │ /home/pi/MagicMirror                       │
│ exec mode         │ fork_mode                                  │
│ node.js version   │ N/A                                        │
│ watch & reload    │ ✔                                          │
│ unstable restarts │ 0                                          │
│ created at        │ 2018-04-24T21:19:54.160Z                   │
└───────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 Revision control metadata 
┌──────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ revision control │ git                                                       │
│ remote url       │ https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git               │
│ repository root  │ /home/pi/MagicMirror                                      │
│ last update      │ 2018-04-25T07:01:33.788Z                                  │
│ revision         │ 60b9a5b9dad36a7748a5d1bdb3b32c0c6384e4c0                  │
│ comment          │ Merge pull request #1245 from MichMich/electron-downgrade │
│ branch           │ master                                                    │
└──────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Really at a loss as to what the problem is and considered entire reinstallation.
Any help would be greatly appreciated so please let me know if more info is required.

Charley · Apr 25, 2018, 1:19 PM

Did you enter the proper module name for the calendar?
Try to comment calendar out to see if it works without.

A Former User · Apr 25, 2018, 1:24 PM

@Charley

Thanks for the suggestion.

Which calendar do you mean? There’s default (bottom left) and there’s calendar-monthly (top left).
when you say comment out, do you mean the name or the entire module?

Charley · Apr 25, 2018, 1:27 PM

I would say calendar monthly

Every line from the first { until the last }
Just type // before if it runs that points to the module That holds the rest.

A Former User · Apr 27, 2018, 5:37 PM

@Charley

Thanks for the suggestions.
Bizarrely I didn’t need to do anything, just left pi off for a few days whilst I worked on some other projects.
Switched on this afternoon and everything is perfect again.

Weird
; -\

bhepler · Apr 27, 2018, 6:43 PM

@lodown It sounds like you had a temporary network interruption. Everything that you listed as a problem requires a network pull to update. Except the clock, which is just weird. Even the time synchronization failing due to a network interruption shouldn’t affect the clock.

A Former User · Apr 30, 2018, 11:14 AM

@bhepler
Got it! I did wonder whether that might be it but the outages were so ridiculously coincidental with the changes I was making that I had to wonder whether I had broken something.

Happy to report that everything is still working as expected at this time.

Thanks all for the suggestions.