Config Options in the News Module

[edwardssj]

Hi there, new to this but have played with pies for a while.

So I am trying to get much more of the current news articles on the screen, not just the headlines, how do I set up the config file to do this please.

I have read throught the manual but I am just not getting it.

Thanks

[sdetweil]

@edwardssj not in the doc, but a config option (defaults to false) is

showFullArticle

so, set that to true in the config.js newsreader config section

[edwardssj]

Could you give me an example please so I can understand where and the format, thanks.

[sdetweil]

@edwardssj never mind,. it doesn’ty work for some sites (as the site refuses to allow embedding)

the setup was

		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			disabled: false,
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true,
				broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
				broadcastNewsUpdates: true,
				showFullArticle : true      // < ---  added this, with the comma on line before
			}
		},

[edwardssj]

@sdetweil Could you give me an example please so I can understand where and the format, thanks.

[sdetweil]

@edwardssj I did that in the message above this one

[edwardssj]

@sdetweil Sorry Sam, I should have refresehed :)

[sdetweil]

@edwardssj no problem. Hope it works for you.

The New York Times doesn’t allow it’s feed to be framed away from it’s parent site

[edwardssj]

@sdetweil It does but of course brings the story up into a full screen, I just have to find a way to bring the text only into the window.

Thank you for showing me the anatomy of the module.

Stuart

[edwardssj]

@sdetweil I have broken something and I cannot see where

/*************** AUTO GENERATED BY REMOTE CONTROL MODULE ***************/

var config = 
{
  address: '0.0.0.0',
  electronOptions: {},
  ipWhitelist: [],
  modules: [
    {
      module: 'MMM-Remote-Control',
      position: 'bottom_right',
      config: {
        apiKey: '',
        customCommand: {}
      }
    },
    {
      module: 'alert',
      config: {}
    },
    {
      module: 'updatenotification',
      position: 'top_bar',
      config: {}
    },
    {
      module: 'clock',
      position: 'top_left',
      config: {}
    },
    {
      module: 'calendar',
      header: 'UK Holidays',
      position: 'top_left',
      config: {
        calendars: [
          {
            symbol: 'calendar-check',
            url: 'webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics'
          }
        ],
        titleReplace: {
          'De verjaardag van ': '',
          '\'s birthday': ''
        },
        excludedEvents: []
      }
    },
    {
      module: 'currentweather',
      position: 'top_right',
      config: {
        location: 'Cwmbran',
        locationID: '2651654',
        appid: 'c1a5ad438e20f60a0f61165ef64837da',
        iconTable: {
          '01d': 'wi-day-sunny',
          '02d': 'wi-day-cloudy',
          '03d': 'wi-cloudy',
          '04d': 'wi-cloudy-windy',
          '09d': 'wi-showers',
          '10d': 'wi-rain',
          '11d': 'wi-thunderstorm',
          '13d': 'wi-snow',
          '50d': 'wi-fog',
          '01n': 'wi-night-clear',
          '02n': 'wi-night-cloudy',
          '03n': 'wi-night-cloudy',
          '04n': 'wi-night-cloudy',
          '09n': 'wi-night-showers',
          '10n': 'wi-night-rain',
          '11n': 'wi-night-thunderstorm',
          '13n': 'wi-night-snow',
          '50n': 'wi-night-alt-cloudy-windy'
        }
      },
      header: ''
    },
    {
      module: 'weatherforecast',
      position: 'top_right',
      header: 'Weather Forecast',
      config: {
        location: 'Cwmbran',
        locationID: '2651654',
        appid: '6ad7c913f464a99eef2b61631b084d42',
        iconTable: {
          '01d': 'wi-day-sunny',
          '02d': 'wi-day-cloudy',
          '03d': 'wi-cloudy',
          '04d': 'wi-cloudy-windy',
          '09d': 'wi-showers',
          '10d': 'wi-rain',
          '11d': 'wi-thunderstorm',
          '13d': 'wi-snow',
          '50d': 'wi-fog',
          '01n': 'wi-night-clear',
          '02n': 'wi-night-cloudy',
          '03n': 'wi-night-cloudy',
          '04n': 'wi-night-cloudy',
          '09n': 'wi-night-showers',
          '10n': 'wi-night-rain',
          '11n': 'wi-night-thunderstorm',
          '13n': 'wi-night-snow',
          '50n': 'wi-night-alt-cloudy-windy'
        }
      }
    },
    {
      module: 'newsfeed',
      position: 'top_center',
      config: {
        feeds: [
          {
            title: 'BBC News',
            url: 'http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml'
          }
        ],
        showDescription: true,
        ignoreOldItems: true,
        scrollLength: true,
        startTags: [],
        endTags: [],
        prohibitedWords: []
}
      },
      header: ''
  ],
  paths: {
    modules: 'modules',
    vendor: 'vendor'
  }
}

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

[sdetweil]

@edwardssj u could edit the code not to be full screen. Careful the article could be clipped at the iframe edge

[sdetweil]

@edwardssj what is that extra } after prohibited words?

Match the braces and brackets

[edwardssj]

@sdetweil Do I just remove it?

Coding is not my strong suit, I tried adding an extra module and got it very wrong

[sdetweil]

@edwardssj run npm run config:check from the MagicMirror folder.

Fix errors starting from the top.
Errors are usually reported on the line after the problem.

(Usually)

[edwardssj]

@sdetweil Fixed it by copying the lower portion of the sample file into the live file, will look at the differences later to see where I went wrong, thank you for your help.

Stuart