MMM-RemoteCompliments does not appear

justtrying

Hi everyone I hope someone can help me out with this.
I’m a newbie on the raspberri pi, and I tried to install MMM-RemoteCompliments as my first module.
I followed the instructions, setup was a success, put the module code in my config.js, but when I start my MagicMirror the module does not show up, not even the header. I’ve tried moving it around, but it’s nowhere to be seen.
I’ve checked my code, I even copy pasted it directly from the instructions to make sure I didn’t make a typo.
The only thing I can think of is that I accidentally first installed the module in the wrong folder, and it might be an interference? I can’t get it removed though for some reason, so I can’t check if that’s the problem.

Any help would be great!

bhepler

@justtrying - Are any of the other modules appearing? The clock, for example?

The easiest way to check for errors is to check the logs. If you’re using PM2 to auto-start your mirror, then you can just enter pm2 log 0 and look for messages that contain “error”.

If you don’t see anything there, you can check the front-end logs by stopping your mirror (pm2 stop 0, changing to the install directory (cd /home/pi/MagicMirror) and displaying the developer console: npm start dev. That will show you any errors that may be preventing your module from displaying.

Let’s check on where you did install it. Get a terminal connection to your Pi (SSH into it, open a terminal on the pi itself, whatever). Once there, type ls /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules and see if the module is among the results. If it is not present, then you’ll have to clone it into the proper location.

To do so, it’s just a handful of commands. Do this as the pi user, do not do this as root. One at a time:

change to the proper directory: cd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules
clone the module from GitHub: git clone https://github.com/mitchelltmarino/MMM-RemoteCompliments.git
restart your mirror process: pm2 restart all

Give these a try and report back. Remember to use the markdown features of the forum!

sdetweil

@bhepler this module may/should fail as it depends on the googleapis library but unlikely it is installed…

the module does not provide a package.json file (as it should) , but does document it

Download dependencies
    Open the console and enter npm install googleapis
          This will install the Google APIs service. (Working as of googleapis@33.0.0)

bhepler

@sdetweil Good point. It really should specify the google API as a dependency and tell you to install the module with npm.

sdetweil

@bhepler it does, that is the text of the instructions

really it should have a package.json, which documents all these and makes it so the user doesn’t have to read and type

justtrying

@bhepler said in MMM-RemoteCompliments does not appear:

the markdown features

ok so when I put in npm install googleapis
I get the following error message:

npm install googleapis
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /home/pi/node_modules/pm2
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm WARN pi No description
npm WARN pi No repository field.
npm WARN pi No README data
npm WARN pi No license field.

npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /home/pi/node_modules/pm2
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/pi/node_modules/pm2'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/pi/node_modules/pm2']
npm ERR! stack:
npm ERR! 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/home/pi/node_modules/pm2\'',
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'access',
npm ERR! path: '/home/pi/node_modules/pm2' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-06-12T08_24_18_697Z-debug.log

I checked the location as instructed, and it showed that the installed modules were default en MMM-RemoteCompliments, so it is in the correct spot.

I checked the log, and I get the following error message:

pm2 log 0
[TAILING] Tailing last 15 lines for [0] process (change the value with --lines option)
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log last 15 lines:
0|MagicMir | at loadConfig (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:69:12)
0|MagicMir | at App.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:210:3)
0|MagicMir | at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js:115:7)
0|MagicMir | at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:786:30)
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-07 17:47:32.481] [ERROR] Calendar Error. Could not fetch calendar: http://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN www.calendarlabs.com
0|MagicMir | at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:60:26) {
0|MagicMir | errno: 'EAI_AGAIN',
0|MagicMir | code: 'EAI_AGAIN',
0|MagicMir | syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
0|MagicMir | hostname: 'www.calendarlabs.com'
0|MagicMir | }
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-07 17:47:32.704] [ERROR] fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/mitchelltmarino/MMM-RemoteCompliments.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com
0|MagicMir | 
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-07 17:47:32.710] [ERROR] fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com
0|MagicMir | 

/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-out.log last 15 lines:
0|MagicMir | at new driveFetcher (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RemoteCompliments/Drive/DriveUtils.js:40:36)
0|MagicMir | at Class.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RemoteCompliments/node_helper.js:43:23)
0|MagicMir | at /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:230:18
0|MagicMir | at new Server (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/server.js:84:3) {
0|MagicMir | errno: -2,
0|MagicMir | syscall: 'open',
0|MagicMir | code: 'ENOENT',
0|MagicMir | path: '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RemoteCompliments/Drive/Token.json'
0|MagicMir | }
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.727] [LOG] Starting node helper for: MMM-RemoteCompliments
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.727] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started ...
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.816] [LOG] [SIGINT] Received. Shutting down server...
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.818] [LOG] Stopping module helper: updatenotification
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.819] [LOG] Stopping module helper: calendar
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.819] [LOG] Stopping module helper: MMM-RemoteCompliments	 	 	
 npm install googleapis
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /home/pi/node_modules/pm2
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm WARN pi No description
npm WARN pi No repository field.
npm WARN pi No README data
npm WARN pi No license field.

npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /home/pi/node_modules/pm2
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/pi/node_modules/pm2'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/pi/node_modules/pm2']
npm ERR! stack:
npm ERR! 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/home/pi/node_modules/pm2\'',
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR! syscall: 'access',
npm ERR! path: '/home/pi/node_modules/pm2' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-06-12T08_24_18_697Z-debug.log

When I gave the same command again I got:

pm2 log 0
[TAILING] Tailing last 15 lines for [0] process (change the value with --lines option)
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log last 15 lines:
0|MagicMir | at loadConfig (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:69:12)
0|MagicMir | at App.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:210:3)
0|MagicMir | at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js:115:7)
0|MagicMir | at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:786:30)
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-07 17:47:32.481] [ERROR] Calendar Error. Could not fetch calendar: http://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN www.calendarlabs.com
0|MagicMir | at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:60:26) {
0|MagicMir | errno: 'EAI_AGAIN',
0|MagicMir | code: 'EAI_AGAIN',
0|MagicMir | syscall: 'getaddrinfo',
0|MagicMir | hostname: 'www.calendarlabs.com'
0|MagicMir | }
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-07 17:47:32.704] [ERROR] fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/mitchelltmarino/MMM-RemoteCompliments.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com
0|MagicMir |
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-07 17:47:32.710] [ERROR] fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com
0|MagicMir |

/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-out.log last 15 lines:
0|MagicMir | at new driveFetcher (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RemoteCompliments/Drive/DriveUtils.js:40:36)
0|MagicMir | at Class.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RemoteCompliments/node_helper.js:43:23)
0|MagicMir | at /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:230:18
0|MagicMir | at new Server (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/server.js:84:3) {
0|MagicMir | errno: -2,
0|MagicMir | syscall: 'open',
0|MagicMir | code: 'ENOENT',
0|MagicMir | path: '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RemoteCompliments/Drive/Token.json'
0|MagicMir | }
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.727] [LOG] Starting node helper for: MMM-RemoteCompliments
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.727] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started ...
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.816] [LOG] [SIGINT] Received. Shutting down server...
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.818] [LOG] Stopping module helper: updatenotification
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.819] [LOG] Stopping module helper: calendar
0|MagicMir | [2020-06-12 10:23:13.819] [LOG] Stopping module helper: MMM-RemoteCompliments

sdetweil

@justtrying said in MMM-RemoteCompliments does not appear:

/home/pi/node_modules

but it looks like you are not in the MM folder or the module folder where u need to install this

looks like you are in the users home folder (/home/pi)

for a module, you should be in

/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/???modulename???

justtrying

@sdetweil
I tried to do as you said, so changed it to MMM-RemoteCompliments, and got this:

pi@RideorDie:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RemoteCompliments $ npm install googleapis
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@2.1.3 (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})

+ googleapis@52.1.0
updated 1 package and audited 829 packages in 49.282s

29 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 3 low severity vulnerabilities
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

Still no remote compliments showing up sadly. I’m thinking about rebooting the entire thing and reinstalling MM.

sdetweil

@justtrying I haven’t used that. module. but maybe it has the same problem as remote control.
.see this topic
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/12485/has-anyone-got-mmm-remote-control-working-on-mm-2-11/10?_=1593613231689

you have to restore one file back to 2.10 level. copy paste/replace file contents

justtrying

@sdetweil Followed these instructions, still no module appearing. It really sucks, I tried reinstalling everything, followed every instruction to a T (even though the setup instructions are outdated), but it just doesn’t work.