Trafficmaps

wscheer

Wow guys thanks! I was a few steps behind tyho trying to get the google maps traffic option to work. I searched every few weeks for this and finally came upon this thread. I have a traffic map on my magic mirror now!!!

For any super beginners (like myself) here are a few notes to add this to my magic mirror page.

Create a dir in your modules dir (ex: MagicMirror/modules/maproute/
Create a file called maproute.js (ex: MagicMirror/modules/maproute/maproute.js) This is where you copy in the code above that alexyak posted
Edit your config.js file to add the module to your page:
I don’t think position and config are required but I stuck them in there and it works ok.

{
                      module: 'maproute',
                      position: 'top_right',
                      config: {}
                },

Restart your pi or restart the magic mirror service and you should be all set!

If I missed anything or anything is wrong, please let me know

The map is cut off in my screenshot but I haven’t changed the sizing or anything yet.

shgmongohh

@wscheer

Thanks for the little tutorial!
Could you please explain, with which module do you calculating the current time to your work and mom?

Sebastian

strawberry 3.141

@shgmongohh [card:SamLewis0602/MMM-Traffic]

Notumlord

@strawberry-3.141 said in Trafficmaps:

@shgmongohh [card:SamLewis0602/MMM-Traffic]

Hijacking this thread since i cant find one specific for MMM-Traffic.

I can only get the “driving” mode to work with MMM-Traffic, if i anything else it’s stuck on Loading Commute.
Anyone else have this issue?

strawberry 3.141

@Notumlord if the author is not registered in this forum, then the best way would be to open an issue on github https://github.com/SamLewis0602/MMM-Traffic/issues

Mitchfarino

@Notumlord @strawberry-3-141

I have these two working fine for me in my config

	{
		module: 'MMM-Traffic',
		position: 'bottom_right',
		classes: 'dimmed medium', //optional, default is 'bright medium', only applies to commute info not route_name
		config: {
			api_key: '',
			mode: 'bicycling',
			origin: 'my origin',
			destination: 'my destination',
			route_name: 'Home to Work',
			changeColor: true,
			showGreen: false,
			limitYellow: 5, //Greater than 5% of journey time due to traffic
			limitRed: 20, //Greater than 20% of journey time due to traffic
			traffic_model: 'pessimistic',
			interval: 120000 //2 minutes
		}
	},
	{
		module: 'MMM-Traffic',
		position: 'bottom_right',
		classes: 'dimmed medium', //optional, default is 'bright medium', only applies to commute info not route_name
		config: {
			api_key: '',
			mode: 'driving',
			origin: 'my origin',
			destination: 'my destination',
			route_name: 'Home to Work',
			changeColor: true,
			showGreen: false,
			limitYellow: 5, //Greater than 5% of journey time due to traffic
			limitRed: 20, //Greater than 20% of journey time due to traffic
			traffic_model: 'pessimistic',
			interval: 120000 //2 minutes
		}
	},

Notumlord

@Mitchfarino
Strange, do you use the exact same origin/destination for both modules or do you format them differently depending on the mode?

Mitchfarino

@Notumlord exactly the same origin and destination, using my postcode for home as the origin and postcode for work as the destination

If you want to share your sample config, I can put it in my mirror to see if it works

wscheer

Hey All,
I’ve been tinkering around with the Bing Traffic maps a little more. I made it a bit more customizable but I’m having an issue where the map never refreshes.

I’ve tried calling updateDom() but that does not seem to do anything. I also tried setting the wrapper to ’ ’ before it is set to the bing url path.

Any ideas?

Module.register("maproute", {
        defaults: {
                latitude: '40.4406', // city latitude
                longitude: '-79.9959', // city longitude
                map_zoom: '12', // 1 - 21
                map_layer: 'TrafficFlow', 
                map_size: '500', // using this for both length and width
                api_key: '1234567890', //  your bing maps api key
                updateInterval: 300000 // 5 mins
        },
        getDom: function() {
                var wrapper = ''; // tried setting this to blank to see if that would clear out the old image
                wrapper = document.createElement("img");
                // create the url using the custom parameters
                wrapper.src = "http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Map/Road/" + this.config.latitude + "," + this.config.longitude + "/" + this.config.map_zoom + "?mapSize=" + this.config.map_size + "," + this.config.map_size + "&ml=" + this.config.map_layer + "&key=" + this.config.map_key;
                return wrapper;
        },
	start: function() {
		var self = this;
		setInterval(function() {
			self.updateDom(); // no speed defined, so it updates instantly.
		}, this.config.updateInterval);
	},
});

strawberry 3.141

@wscheer Quote from the readme Whenever your module need to be updated, call the updateDom(speed) method. It requests the MagicMirror core to update it's dom object. If you define the speed, the content update will be animated, but only if the content will realy change. So i guess your html looks all the time the same, so there is probably no real update of the dom. I suggest to try to add an timestamp somewhere and see if it gets updated then

wscheer

@strawberry-3-141 Ding! Ding! Ding! That was it! THANK YOU!

Also thanks again to @alexyak and @tyho for their input.

I’ll post the code for anyone who wants Bing Traffic maps on their Magic Mirror.

It’s a little hackish but maybe someone will come along and write it the correct way. Basically I’m taking the pushpin (pp) parameter and just assigning two random numbers to it. Math.random() creates a number between 0 and 1. So the map never shows the pushpin on the area I’m at. This causes the information to be “new” so when updateDom() is called, the info has changed.

For any beginners, here is my file structure setup:
The code below is located: /var/www/html/MagicMirror/modules/maproute/maproute.js

Module.register("maproute", {
        defaults: {
                latitude: '40.4406', // City latitude. Use google to get these coordinates
                longitude: '-79.9959', // City longitude
                map_zoom: '12', // 1 - 21
                map_layer: 'TrafficFlow', 
                map_size: '500', // Using this for both length and width
                api_key: '123456789', // Your Bing maps api key
                updateInterval: 300000 // 5 min refresh
        },
        getDom: function() {
                var wrapper = '';
                wrapper = document.createElement("img");
                // The Math.random() calls are to place a random pushpin on the map and make the updateDom() call refresh
                wrapper.src = "http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Map/Road/" + this.config.latitude + "," + this.config.longitude + "/" + this.config.map_zoom + "?mapSize=" + this.config.map_size + "," + this.config.map_size + "&pp=" + Math.random() + "," + Math.random() + "&ml=" + this.config.map_layer + "&key=" + this.config.map_key;
                return wrapper;
        },
	start: function() {
		var self = this;
		setInterval(function() {
			self.updateDom(5000); // I set a 5 second refresh here for testing.
		}, this.config.updateInterval);
	},
});

Jeff

@wscheer
Is this modul still working?

I did everthing you explained:

in my config.js:

{
                      module: 'maproute',
                      position: 'middle_center',
                      
                },

And /var/www/html/MagicMirror/modules/maproute/maproute.js is the code from above.

I’ve created an API for Bing maps.

But if I run MM I just see a small image. Like the right picture could not be found.
And if I look to the report om bing how often my API was used, it counts 0.

Where is the mistake?

Thanks

wscheer

@Jeff yeah mine is still working.

To troubleshoot you could run magic mirror in “standalone” mode. That would let you view the page on a desktop computer and you can look at the browser console to see what the errors are.

Let me know if you need more instructions on that. I’m on a mobile right now. I could add more later.

Jeff

@wscheer

Thanks for your quick reply.
Can you just tell me how to enter the “standalone” mode?
thanks

wscheer

@Jeff yeah

execute the following command from the MagicMirror folder: “node serveronly”. This will start the server, after which you can open the application in your browser of choice.

Jeff

@wscheer
oh okay, I already did that and the command line said my page was created correctly.
But in teh browser it said page not found.

I think that’s a different problem and I have to handle that first…

Jeff

Now I can open the MM in the webbrowser.

What should I do now?

wscheer

@Jeff Ok so now if you load the page and you still see the broken image, the browser can help you find out what the problem is.

If you use firefox, hit F12 and reload the magic mirror page you can see if there are any errors being reported. When I was first testing mine, I had an typo in the api string and I couldn’t really see it until I looked at it in the browser.

Let me know if that helps, or post some screenshots of any errors and hopefully I can help :)

Jeff

@wscheer

I’ve installed Firefox:

Initializing MagicMirror.  logger.js:17:4
Loading core translation file: translations/de.json  logger.js:20:4
Loading core translation fallback file: translations/en.json  logger.js:20:4
Load script: modules/default/alert//alert.js  logger.js:20:4
Module registered: alert  logger.js:20:4
Bootstrapping module: alert  logger.js:17:4
Load script: modules/default/alert//classie.js  logger.js:20:4
Load script: modules/default/alert//modernizr.custom.js  logger.js:20:4
Load script: modules/default/alert//notificationFx.js  logger.js:20:4
Scripts loaded for: alert  logger.js:20:4
Load stylesheet: modules/default/alert//ns-default.css  logger.js:20:4
Styles loaded for: alert  logger.js:20:4
alert - Load translation: translations/de.json  logger.js:20:4
alert - Load translation fallback: translations/en.json  logger.js:20:4
Translations loaded for: alert  logger.js:20:4
Load script: modules/maproute//maproute.js  logger.js:20:4
Module registered: maproute  logger.js:20:4
Bootstrapping module: maproute  logger.js:17:4
Scripts loaded for: maproute  logger.js:20:4
Styles loaded for: maproute  logger.js:20:4
Translations loaded for: maproute  logger.js:20:4
Load stylesheet: css/custom.css  logger.js:20:4
Starting module: alert  logger.js:17:4
All modules started!  logger.js:17:4
maproute received a system notification: ALL_MODULES_STARTED  logger.js:20:4
maproute received a system notification: DOM_OBJECTS_CREATED  logger.js:20:4
GET 
http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Map/Road/40.4406,-79.9959/12 [HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized 108ms]

I think I have a wrong API access, but I think I did everything as described…

wscheer

@Jeff Ok now we are getting somewhere.

Try this:
In your browser, paste this url but add your bing maps api key at the end. Mine looks like this (i replaced some characters with #)
######ss9ZpK9lZjPRNo78Xp######xM_zjDmyQ2M5GmkzcOUhW2BYmO######-2

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Map/Road/40.4406,-79.9959/12?mapSize=500,500&ml=TrafficFlow&key= ADD YOUR API KEY HERE

When you do that, you should see the map all by itself. That would tell you if it was an issue with your api key itself.

If that works, double check the api key was copied right in the config section
“api_key: ‘123456789’, // Your Bing maps api key”

Let me know what you find