resolved.. MMM-NetworkScanner

[sdetweil]

@sonicgoose its HIS fork and HIS special branch … so you have to clone HIS repo, then switch to the special branch that has the code

[sonicgoose]

@sdetweil Thanks. Github is to me about as intuitive as theoretical physics. How exactly do I go about that?

[sdetweil]

@sonicgoose so, he said

Only the slametps fork has them, and that’s the version with the column view in it.

that means the USER slametps has a copy (fork) of the original repo, and this fork has the changes

SO…

go to github and find the user slametps, (there is a search box) or google search ‘slametps github’, find his list of repos (push the repositories link), and scroll til you find it, or put ‘network’ (some part of the repo name) in the ‘find a repository’ field and hit enter

click on the repo name, click on clone or download, click on the clipboard (to copy the url to use in clone)

go to your system ~/MagicMirror/modules folder (in a terminal window)
rename your old MMM-NetworkScanner folder out of the way (to some other name, ANY other name)
then
git clone (paste the link from the clipboard)
cd MMM-NetworkScanner
it has a package.json, that means u need to do
npm install

then restart your MM, and read the readme for the slametps copy of the repo for new features

[sonicgoose]

@sdetweil said in resolved.. MMM-NetworkScanner:

slametps

I’ve removed the version I had and installed the repo found here, which has outdated instructions telling me to install the ianperrin version. (I didn’t.) After restarting MM on my RPi, I know get just a list of mac addresses as I entered them in the config where I was getting at least a list of device names and icons. I’m getting really frustrated with this. Maybe time to take a break from it…

[sdetweil]

@sonicgoose i looked at his code, and it doesn’t look different…

I don’t know anything about the module

[sonicgoose]

@sdetweil Thanks. I appreciate the help and that you took the time to look at the code. I wish I knew more about how this stuff works. I’m learning, but I’m also getting frustrated. I’ll revisit this another time.

[DarrenHill]

This one, from the repo linked above:

https://github.com/spitzlbergerj/MMM-NetworkScanner/blob/master/MMM-NetworkScanner.js

Personally I hate GitHub too, finding it about as straightforward as spaghetti. So I just copied that file and overwrote the one I had installed with it. Then it worked fine.

You can see where it’s been updated based around the comments starting “// sjj” that I mentioned before.

It sounds like the one you already have though. But that version is working for me with multiple rows and columns. This is the relevant part from my config.js (it works equally well with macAddress, I just prefer IP ones):

		{
			module: "MMM-NetworkScanner",
			position: "bottom_right", 
			config: {
                                sort: false,
                                showUnknown: false,
                                showDeviceColums: true,
                                coloredState: true,
				devices: [
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.1", name: "Router", icon: "wifi", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.2", name: "Repeater", icon: "wifi", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.3", name: "NAS1", icon: "server", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.4", name: "NAS2", icon: "server", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.5", name: "LoungePi", icon: "tv", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red", showInNewRow: true },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.6", name: "BedroomPi", icon: "tv", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.7", name: "RadioPi", icon: "music", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.8", name: "DockerPi", icon: "cubes", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" }, 
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.9", name: "Printer", icon: "print", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red", showInNewRow: true },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.10", name: "VPNPi", icon: "lock", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.11", name: "PiHole", icon: "filter", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.12", name: "Hive Hub", icon: "plug", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.13", name: "ButtonPi", icon: "keyboard", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red", showInNewRow: true },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.14", name: "Fingbox", icon: "hockey-puck", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.15", name: "Connect", icon: "broadcast-tower", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" },
					{ ipAddress: "192.168.0.16", name: "Quatro", icon: "broadcast-tower", colorStateOnline: "green", colorStateOffline: "red" }
				]
			}
		},

[sonicgoose]

I’ve done a complete reinstall of MagicMirror, all the modules I had, from scratch, and this one still produces only a list, not nice columns and rows of icons. I’ve officially given up.

[sdetweil]

@sonicgoose that source file documents a new config parm

showDeviceColums

which is false by default
add and set to true

[DarrenHill]

@sonicgoose - Note the (mis)spelling of the config parameter for columns - the config entry is “showDeviceColums”, not “showDeviceColumns”. It is missing an n, and needs it removed to work (or the script corrected for it).

See my config example above, which works. Yours is wrong as (ironically) it’s spelt correctly!