Config modules from external file (JSON)

[sdetweil]

@telmini i do not know, screen is hard to read. got enoent file not found. path is wrong.

[telmini]

Sorry, this is the output.

> magicmirror@2.11.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

[2021-01-27 16:55:09.858] [LOG]    Starting MagicMirror: v2.11.0
[2021-01-27 16:55:09.878] [LOG]    Loading config ...
[2021-01-27 16:55:09.892] [LOG]    Loading module helpers ...
[2021-01-27 16:55:09.896] [LOG]    Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/../modules/default/currentweather/node_helper.js'
    at Object.accessSync (fs.js:202:3)
    at Object.fs.accessSync (electron/js2c/asar.js:491:38)
    at Object.fs.accessSync (electron/js2c/asar.js:491:38)
    at loadModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:124:7)
    at loadNextModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:166:5)
    at loadModules (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:177:3)
    at /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:223:4
    at loadConfig (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:72:4)
    at App.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:211:3)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js:115:7) {
  errno: -2,
  syscall: 'access',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: '/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/../modules/default/currentweather/node_helper.js'
}
[2021-01-27 16:55:09.924] [LOG]    No helper found for module: currentweather.
[2021-01-27 16:55:09.926] [LOG]    All module helpers loaded.
[2021-01-27 16:55:10.246] [LOG]    Starting server on port 8080 ... 
[2021-01-27 16:55:10.256] [INFO]   You're using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs
[2021-01-27 16:55:10.268] [LOG]    Server started ...
[2021-01-27 16:55:10.268] [LOG]    Sockets connected & modules started ...
[2021-01-27 16:55:10.428] [LOG]    Launching application.
^[$

I don’t understand why it’s trying to go to this path

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access’/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/…/modules/default/currentweather/node_helper.js’

[sdetweil]

@telmini because its looking for the (optional) node_helper.js of a module.
this one, currentweather doesnt use one

[sdetweil]

@telmini so the returncode is right but its not fatal in mm view.

[telmini]

It could probably be that the XmlHttpRequest is async and the page is already loaded when the request has finished executing.

[tatianobusatto]

Hi, I’m trying something similar. Have you managed to solve your issue using this fuction loadJSON? If not, did you find any solution to update config.js “dinamicaly”?

[sdetweil]

@tatianobusatto others have written js/python code that takes their settings ( file, database, web service) and applied to a model config.js. (all their modules with fake strings for keys, etc)
and call that js/python just before launching mm

in installers/mm.sh

[tatianobusatto]

@sdetweil thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a good js/python script example for that. For a while, I ended up creating a simple batch script to append multiple json config files for each module in between the config header and footer. In case you remember a place were I can find a thread for that discussion, please let me know.