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    How to add modules. For absolute beginners.

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    • D Offline
      Dask
      last edited by

      Thank you all for the help. I am slowly getting it. Honest.

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        Dask
        last edited by

        Mykle! I have the PilotMX instlled and working on the bottom bar with my chosen 2 airports but it takes up the full width of the screen. Can I make it narrower. I changed the maxWidth to 300px but it is still all the way across.

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        • BKeyportB Offline
          BKeyport Module Developer @Dask
          last edited by

          @Dask bottom bar is designed to do exactly that. you’d be better to use bottom_left, bottom_right, or bottom_center (or is it middle, I don’t recall, I keep my config organized by the regions, so I get reminded when I redesign)

          The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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            TheSij @Mykle1
            last edited by

            @Mykle1 - thanks for this guide. I promise I’ve studied it through and read the additional helpful comments that other contributors have made. However, I’ve having trouble adding the MMM-PrayerTime module to config.js. When I add the module and MM restarts, it shows blank and an error telling me to create a config file. Grateful for pointers on where I’m going wrong (please see code below. I’ve hidden any personal information). Thanks.

            To note that without the entry to the MMM-PrayerTime module added to config.js Magic Mirror runs fine with the other modules.

            modules: [
            		{
            			module: "alert",
            		},
            		{
            			module: "updatenotification",
            			position: "top_bar"
            		},
            		{
            			module: "clock",
            			position: "top_left"		
            		},
            		{
            			module: "MMM-PrayerTime",
            			position: "top_left",	// This can be any of the regions. Best result is in the top_left/top_right.
            			config: {
            				apiVersion: "1.0", // please, leave unchanged. reserved for future use.
            				lat: xx.xxxxxxx, // latitude of your position (city)
            				lon: -x.xxxxxxx, // longitude of your position (city)
            				timezone: Europe/London, // please refer to http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
            				timeFormat: 24,
            				method: 5,
            				playAdzan: ["fajr", "dhuhr", "asr", "maghrib", "isha"],
            				notDisplayed: ["midnight", "sunset"],
            				useUpdateInterval: true,
            				updateInterval: 86400 * 1000, // How often do you want to fetch new praying time? (milliseconds)
            				animationSpeed: 2.5 * 1000, // Speed of the update animation. (milliseconds)
            				language: config.language,
            				showAdzanAlert: true,
            				showTomorrow: true,
            				vertical: true, // set false for horizontal view
            				alertTimer: 15000
            			}
            		},
            		{
            			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"					}
            				]
            			}
            		},
            		{
            			module: "currentweather",
            			position: "top_right",
            			config: {
            				location: "London",
            				locationID: "2643743", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
            				appid: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
            			}
            		},
            		{
            			module: "weatherforecast",
            			position: "top_right",
            			header: "Weather Forecast",
            			config: {
            				location: "London",
            				locationID: "2643743", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
            				appid: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
            			}
            		},
            		{
            			module: "newsfeed",
            			position: "bottom_bar",
            			config: {
            				feeds: [
            					{
            						title: "New York Times",
            						url: "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
            					},
            					{
            						title: "BBC World News",
            						url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml"
            					},
            					{
            						title: "Reddit",
            						url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss"
            					},
            					{
            						title: "Buzzfeed",
            						url: "https://www.buzzfeed.com/world.xml"
            					},
            					{
            						title: "Al Jazeera",
            						url: "http://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml"
            					}
            
            				],
            				showSourceTitle: true,
            				showPublishDate: true,
            				broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
            				broadcastNewsUpdates: true
            			}
            		},
            	]
            };
            
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              sdetweil @TheSij
              last edited by

              @TheSij ok, general rules for config values

              thing to the right of :

              if numeric or true/false
              no quotes

              otherwise quoted, single or double doesn’t matter as long as both ends are the same

              exception here, if the string is config.something (yours has config.language)
              then not quoted, as this means use the value of that item from this config

              so, your timezone is text, but has no quotes.
              I assume u xx the lat/long so we won’t know where u are

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                TheSij @sdetweil
                last edited by

                @sdetweil. Thanks, Sam. That’s helpful to explain the general rules.

                I’ve made a slight amendment - I figured that the timezone parameters was not correctly entered (see below - this time just showing the modules before and after). To answer your last point, I did remove the lat/lon values to hide my exact location (this time I’ve put in made-up numbers). With the slight amendment to the code, it’s still not working - do you think it’s the ‘timezone’ value that is causing the problem? I’ve not made any changes to the other modules.

                {
                			module: "weatherforecast",
                			position: "top_right",
                			header: "Weather Forecast",
                			config: {
                				location: "London",
                				locationID: "2643743", //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
                				appid: "1ab234c567defgh89012ij34k56l78mn"
                			}
                		},
                		{
                			module: 'MMM-PrayerTime',
                			position: 'top_left',	// This can be any of the regions. Best result is in the top_left/top_right.
                			config: {
                				apiVersion: '1.0', // please, leave unchanged. reserved for future use.
                				lat: 12.3456789, // latitude of your position (city)
                				lon: -0.1234567, // longitude of your position (city)
                				timezone: date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London'), // please refer to http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
                				timeFormat: 24,
                				method: 5,
                				playAdzan: ['fajr', 'dhuhr', 'asr', 'maghrib', 'isha'],
                				notDisplayed: ['midnight', 'sunset'],
                				useUpdateInterval: true,
                				updateInterval: 86400 * 1000, // How often do you want to fetch new praying time? (milliseconds)
                				animationSpeed: 2.5 * 1000, // Speed of the update animation. (milliseconds)
                				language: config.language,
                				showAdzanAlert: true,
                				showTomorrow: true,
                				vertical: true, // set false for horizontal view
                				alertTimer: 15000
                			}
                		},
                		{
                			module: "newsfeed",
                			position: "bottom_bar",
                			config: {
                				feeds: [
                					{
                						title: "New York Times",
                						url: "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
                					},
                					{
                						title: "BBC World News",
                						url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml"
                					},
                					{
                						title: "Reddit",
                						url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/.rss"
                					},
                					{
                						title: "Buzzfeed",
                						url: "https://www.buzzfeed.com/world.xml"
                					},
                					{
                						title: "Al Jazeera",
                						url: "http://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml"
                					}
                
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                  sdetweil @TheSij
                  last edited by

                  @TheSij yes, still timezone., that syntax says call a function named date_default_timezone_set

                  but I don’t know where that would be.

                  just comment out that one line. add // at the start of the line

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                    TheSij @sdetweil
                    last edited by

                    @sdetweil - thanks! Unfortunately, still no luck on adding // at the start of the line, or after ‘timezone:’. According to the module creator, the timezone is a required field. I went to the php website that the module creator refers to, but it just doesn’t make sense to me - the coding information on that website is vast and much too advanced for me. I may have to abandon my desire to add this particular module. :-(

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                    • Mykle1M Offline
                      Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer
                      last edited by Mykle1

                      @TheSij said in How to add modules. For absolute beginners.:

                      I may have to abandon my desire to add this particular module.

                      Don’t give up! I just installed this to test it for you. I can see why it was confusing for you but it does work. Here is my config entry. Use it as a template for yours, replacing your info for mine. The following screenshot shows it working.

                      Screenshot from 2020-07-27 17-02-42.png

                      {
                      		module: 'MMM-PrayerTime',
                      		position: 'top_center',	// This can be any of the regions. Best result is in the top_left/top_right.
                      		config: {
                      			apiVersion: '1.0', // please, leave unchanged. reserved for future use.
                      			lat: myLat, // latitude of your position (city)
                      			lon: myLong, // longitude of your position (city)
                      			timezone: 'Europe/London', // please refer to http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
                      //			timeFormat: 24,
                      			method: 5,
                      			playAdzan: ['fajr', 'dhuhr', 'asr', 'maghrib', 'isha'],
                      			notDisplayed: ['midnight', 'sunset'],
                      			useUpdateInterval: true,
                      			updateInterval: 86400 * 1000, // How often do you want to fetch new praying time? (milliseconds)
                      			animationSpeed: 2.5 * 1000, // Speed of the update animation. (milliseconds)
                      	//		language: config.language,
                      			showAdzanAlert: true,
                      			showTomorrow: true,
                      			vertical: true, // set false for horizontal view
                      			alertTimer: 15000
                      		}
                      	},
                      

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                        sdetweil @Mykle1
                        last edited by

                        @Mykle1 thx!

                        so the original problem was the timezone wasn’t quoted.

                        Sam

                        How to add modules

                        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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