MMM-MealViewer

[cowboysdude]

@gonzonia PHP won’t work in this software. If he doesn’t answer you I will be happy to help you get this going…

[gonzonia]

@cowboysdude Thanks. I’m happy to use a JS implementation as well. The family calendar I created is just hitting a wordpress site I’m hosting on a mac mini. PHP was just so that it could load pre-render but the main thing is just to get the meal list populated on the calendar screen instead of having a separate tab open in the browser. I haven’t had a lot of time to try to look into this or switching to MM. I hate to be hijacking a MM thread but this is literally the only discussion I’ve found of anyone accessing the MealViewer data like this.

[gonzonia]

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[gonzonia]

Okay. I’ve decided to build a MagicMirror to replace my homegrown and now I’m trying to implement this module. I’ve downloaded the repository for this from GitHub and ran npm install.
I’ve added some config info to set the school and position. It’s showing breakfast and “Tomorrow’s Undefined”. I’d like it to show lunch. Help?

[sdetweil]

Open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i on the keyboard. Select the console tab and scroll up to see any errors. Usually red text

[gonzonia]

@sdetweil Thank you. That’s helpful (I’m still learning the ins and outs of Magic Mirror) but there’s no errors. The “Undefined” is coming up while it’s loading the data. There’s no documentation for the module, I’m thinking there’s something that’s missing in the setup.

[sdetweil]

@gonzonia can u should your config info?

looking at the code, these are the options that are configurable

  defaults: {
    schools: [],
    maxWidth: "300px",
    updateInterval: 5 * 60 * 1000,
    interval: 1000 * 60 * 15,
  }

where schools is an array of names
[ ‘school1’,school2’, ‘school3’]

used to call the api

https://api.mealviewer.com/api/v4/school/’ + this.config.schools[i]

school names can be found here
https://schools.mealviewer.com/

comment says only for one day
// Currently set to only pull one day’s data so endDayFormatted = todayFormatted

[gonzonia]

@sdetweil
Thanks. I actually went in to the code and tweaked it. It was pulling the data fine, I think the issue was that the original developer’s usage only had a single meal (Lunch) available at the school and so it worked as is. Our school has Breakfast and Lunch I added an additional iteration to show all the meals or just what was placed in the config. The header now also reflects that. I’m not sure what that was supposed to do before because I couldn’t figure out where it was expecting the data.header to come from since nothing was loaded.

My changes can be found here.

https://github.com/gonzonia/MMM-MealViewer/tree/patch-1
added shortName to config to replace text based on config option instead of hardcoded
changed className to menuWrapper to allow for style control without interfering with other modules
added config option for showing single or multiple meals based on name, default is All

Still need to add some documentation but it might be a couple of weeks.

[gonzonia]

The module works great on the initial load. The problem is that it doesn’t seem to be updating. After 12pm it’s supposed to start showing the next days meals but doesn’t. Even the next day it doesn’t update. I’ll try to dig into the core aspects of developing a module and see if I can find out why, but if anyone with more experience has any ideas where I should start looking I’d appreciate it.