trouble with MMM-GoogleTrafficTimes

[laschalkh]

Hi Sam,

ok, got it all running and it is working. Your script works very well. I tried adding MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic as well and that seems to kill the mirror. It says it can’t find the config file. As long as I leave that out, it’s working.

[sdetweil]

@laschalkh u might want my version of Googlemapstraffic, as the original is broken

https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic

[laschalkh]

yea, that’s the one I’m trying. I just tried that module only and it’s not working. I ran the install again and it is warning about grunt styles not being installed. Seems like it’s missing parts.

[sdetweil]

@laschalkh thats noise

you did the git clone
cd
and then npm install

right?

so, whats your config section look like… no one has had trouble installing it, it was a run problem I fixed…

[laschalkh]

yup, went through and did the install and such

 {
                        module: 'MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic',
                        position: 'bottom_left',
                        config: {
                                key: '< my key>',
                                lat: < my lat>,
                                lng: < my long>,
                                height: '300px',
                                width: '300px'
                                styledMapType: "transparent",
                                disableDefaultUI: true,
                                backgroundColor: 'hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0)',
                                markers: [
                                        {
                                                lat: <my lat>,
                                                lng: <my long>,
                                                fillColor: '#9966ff'
                                        },
                                ],
                        },
                },

[sdetweil]

@laschalkh how are u specifying lat/lng (in both places, right)

like this (good)

lat:30.4623841,

or this (bad)

lat:"30.4623841",

[laschalkh]

yup, not quoted

[sdetweil]

@laschalkh ok, so what is the error?

[laschalkh]

magicmirror@2.13.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
./run-start.sh $1 “dev”

[2020-10-16 11:15:36.565] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.13.0
[2020-10-16 11:15:36.775] [LOG] Loading config …
[2020-10-16 11:15:36.823] [ERROR] WARNING! Could not validate config file. Starting with default configuration. Please correct syntax errors at or above this line: /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js:73
styledMapType: “transparent”,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:723:23)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
at loadConfig (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:70:12)
at App.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:217:3)
at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/serveronly/index.js:4:5)
[2020-10-16 11:15:36.862] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
[2020-10-16 11:15:37.496] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[2020-10-16 11:15:37.507] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[2020-10-16 11:15:37.525] [LOG] No helper found for module: helloworld.
[2020-10-16 11:15:37.531] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[2020-10-16 11:15:39.089] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 …
[2020-10-16 11:15:39.324] [LOG] Server started …
[2020-10-16 11:15:39.335] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[2020-10-16 11:15:39.346] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …
[2020-10-16 11:15:39.354] [LOG]

[sdetweil]

@laschalkh said in trouble with MMM-GoogleTrafficTimes:

/home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js:73
styledMapType: “transparent”,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

rule number 1 debugging syntax errors:

IF you see ’ Unexpected identifier’, find the line number
config.js:73

back up one line (72), and check for the missing , at the end

                                width: '300px'                                   <  --- 
                                styledMapType: "transparent",

[laschalkh]

I see it, damn, I’ve stared at that for way too long, rebooting…

[sdetweil]

@laschalkh you don’t need to reboot all the time, just restart mm…

[laschalkh]

it’s working now. Thank you for all of the help!

Kevin

[mrhurley]

I have been playing around with this and it works well. However, it doesn’t like when you trying to get times for another travel mode. It will change the icons, but the times are always for driving. I played with the file and forced the cycling mode but then it won’t show up on the screen. I think the issue is the Distance Matrix API returns unexpected information for the other modes.

Can someone help point me in the right direction? Thanks