MMM-Navigate, Navigation inside MagicMirror with Rotary Encoder

AxLed

@Eisblume
Please post your config and make sure your private keys are x-ed. So i can try to copy your setup to my test pi and maybe find out whats the reason. That your rotary encoder generally works is good to know.
AxLED

Eisblume

Ok, thanks @AxLed !!

config.js:

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * 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: "0.0.0.0", // 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", "::ffff:192.168.1.1/120", "192.168.1.1/24"], // 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: "de",
	timeFormat: 24,
	units: "metric",

	modules: [
		{
			module: "alert",
		},
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left"
		},
		{
			module: "MMM-Navigate",
			header: "Navigation",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
					Alias: [
						'Seiten blättern',
						'News (mehr/weniger Details)',
						'Test notification',
						'News - mehr Details',
						'News - weniger Details',
						'Neustart MagicMirror (PM2)',
						'Neustart',
						'Herunterfahren'
					],
					Action: [
						[{notification:'PAGE_INCREMENT',payload:''},{notification:'PAGE_DECREMENT',payload:''}],//action array, first press locks menu, after this rotation CW/CCW executes, second press release lock mode
						[{notification:'ARTICLE_MORE_DETAILS',payload:''},{notification:'ARTICLE_LESS_DETAILS',payload:''}],
						{notification: "SHOW_ALERT", payload: {type:"notification",message:"Dies ist eine Testnachricht"}},//single action, execute on press
						{notification:'ARTICLE_MORE_DETAILS',payload:''},
						{notification:'ARTICLE_LESS_DETAILS',payload:''},
						{notification: "REMOTE_ACTION", payload: {action: "RESTART"}},
						{notification: "REMOTE_ACTION", payload: {action: "REBOOT"}},
						{notification: "REMOTE_ACTION", payload: {action: "SHUTDOWN"}}
					],
					GPIOPins: [26,20,19]//rotary cw, rotary ccw, rotary press (BCM Numbering)
					},
},
		{
    		module: 'MMM-Remote-Control',
    		// uncomment the following line to show the URL of the remote control on the mirror
    		// , position: 'bottom_left'
    		// you can hide this module afterwards from the remote control itself
    		config: {
        		customCommand: {},  // Optional, See "Using Custom Commands" below
        		customMenu: "custom_menu.json", // Optional, See "Custom Menu Items" below
        		showModuleApiMenu: true, // Optional, Enable the Module Controls menu
        		apiKey: ""         // Optional, See API/README.md for details
    		}
		},
		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar"
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "Familie Reetz",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check",
						url: "webcal://pxxxxxxm/xxxxxxxKSw_tdQ8WGeTZVjgr6Vwn1HDxxxxxxx5OuupPnKOIExxxx"
					}
				]
			}
		},
//		{
//			module: "compliments",
//			position: "lower_third"
//		},
{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "xxxx",
				locationID: "xxx",  //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/; unzip the gz file and find your city
				appid: "xxxxx"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Wettervorhersage",
			config: {
				location: "xxxx",
				locationID: "xxxx",  //ID from https://openweathermap.org/city
				appid: "xxxxx"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "Tagesschau",
						url: "http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2"
						//url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
		{
    		module: "MMM-Fuel",
    		position: "bottom_left",
    		config: {
        			api_key: "xxxxx",
        			lat: 123456,
        			lng: 654321,
        			types: ["diesel"],
        			radius: 15,
        			max: 3     			
    				}
		},
		{
	        module: 'MMM-Dreambox',
			header: 'Vu+ Ultimo4K powered by VTi',
			position: 'bottom_right',
			config: {
				apiBase: 'http://192.168.1.50:90',
				//omxargs: ' --vol -6000 --win 0,625,590,957 --live ',
				omxargs: ' --win 600,60,1490,940 -o both ',
				refreshInterval: 1000 * 30, //refresh every 30 seconds
				apibouquet: 0, //bouquet, if there is more than one under apiservices (/web/getallservices),
				apiRecordingsID: 0, //which recording folder should be listed
				listmax: 10,
				apiabout: '/web/about',
				apiservices: '/web/getallservices',
				apiepgnow: '/web/epgnow?bRef=',
				apizap: '/web/zap?sRef=',
				apiTimerlist: '/web/timerlist',
				apiServicelistplayable: '/web/servicelistplayable?sRef=',
				apiLocations: '/web/getlocations', //where are the recording folders listed
				apiMovielist: '/web/movielist?dirname=' //link for opening recording folder and list recordings
				}
		},
	]

};

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

AxLed

@Eisblume
I tested wih modules of your config.

My testconfiguration:

Raspberry Pi 1
MagicMirror v2.7.1
npm v6.8.0
node v8.9.0
no electron (as i dont run/installable on Pi 1), i run node serveronly
display: Webbrowser

My rotary encoder works as follows:

Seite blättern (press works and gives a red frame an a lock sign, cw an ccw dont work, as MMM-Pages isnt part of your config)
News (mehr/weniger Details) (press works and gives a red frame an a lock sign, cw an ccw works)
Test notification (press works, no cw or ccw functionality by design)
News - mehr Details (press works, no cw or ccw functionality by design)
News - weniger Details (press works, no cw or ccw functionality by design)
Neustart MagicMirror (PM2) (dont work in my testconfiguration, as i dont use PM on RPI1)
Neustart (press works, there is a pop up notification to press twice for reeboot, requires MMM-Remote-Control)
Herunterfahren (press works, there is a pop up notification to press twice for shutdown, requires MMM-Remote-Control)

Two ideas:

wrong cabeling, here are the 3 pins for CW, CW and PRESS of your config.js (GPIOPins: [26,20,19])
messed up setup, try to save your config and reinstall raspian an MM

Greets

AxLED

Eisblume

Thank you so much for your help. But It still doesn’t work.

The cabeling is correct I checked it many times ;-)

The crazy thing is, when I remove ground, the press button works, but not the cw and cww.

I think, I will try a clean reinstall on my RPi3.

Eisblume

@AxLed
Also after clean install with nothing more, the default modules and MMM-Navigate and MMM-Remote-Controll it doesn’t work.

Here you can see: https://youtu.be/G2eRoPxRPjU

Only when I remove ground, the press action works. But then, the cw and cww doesn’t work…

AxLed

@Eisblume
Thanks for your reply, i tested at my pi with disconnected ground cable, but there is no press, cw or ccw working at all.
My last ideas:

can you messure your 5 cables if maybe one is interrupted
maybe there are two versions of KY-040 on the marked, i have this one Amazon
is your second rotary encoder shows same symptoms?
did you connect + of rotary encoder to 5V once (which would be wrong and maybe damaged your GPIO PINs/chip)?

AxLED

Eisblume

@AxLed
Do not think that I am lying ;-), but it works fine, when I start MagicMirror and after that I start the python - script from here https://github.com/martinohanlon/KY040.

cw, cww and press works absolutely fine.

It is very strange.

Eisblume

@AxLed
Ok, i fix it now for me.

I know, it is a dirty code, but don’t found another solution :dizzy_face:

I attached the KY040 python script in the node_helper.js. Then everything works fine.

//node_helper.js
/* Magic Mirror
 * Node Helper: {MMM-Navigate}
 *
 * By {AxLED}
 * {MIT} Licensed.
 */

 //Debugging
 //tail -f ~/.pm2/logs/mm-out-0.log
 //tail -f ~/.pm2/logs/mm-error-0.log 

const Gpio = require('onoff').Gpio;
...
const spawn = require("child_process").spawn;
//Variables
...
  start: function() {
		var self = this;
		this.loaded = false;
		var process = spawn("python", ["/home/pi/Downloads/KY040/examples/python3.py"]);
	},
	
...
});

AxLed

@Eisblume
No Problem, i am glad it works for you now, so you also did your first coding experiance.

AxLED

Eisblume

@AxLed
Yes very interesting experiences :-) !

Could you explain my how to start “Tagesschau in 100 Sekunden” in MMM-Navigate ??