MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs

Matthewlawson3

Hi, I am trying to configure the MMM-NewsFeedTicker module and it is hanging on one or two sources and never gets to the other sources. Can anyone help with this? Below is my code. Also, is there anyway to delay the fade to the other news stories until the current story finishes its line of text?

Just to note I did change the speed at which the text moves and I did change the ticker itself to none for the background.

{
	disabled: false,
	module: "MMM-NewsFeedTicker",
	position: "bottom_bar",
	//classes: "day_scheduler",
	config: {
	    feeds: [
		{
			title: "New York Times",
			url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
			customLogo: "NYT_logo_rss_250x40.png"
		},
		{
			title: "USA Today",
			url: "http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories",
			customLogo: "RSS_Syndication_Logo-USATN.png"
		},
		{
			title: "BBC World News",
			url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#",
			customLogo: "bbc_news_120x60.gif"
		},
		{
			title: "Ars Technica",
			url: "http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/technology-lab",
			customLogo: "arstechnica.jpg"
		}
		
    	    ]
	}
    },

cowboysdude

@matthewlawson3 There are a few different versions which one are you using?

Matthewlawson3

@cowboysdude the one at the link below. It just seems that it will hang on one source and keeps repeating that source instead of fading out and going to the other sources. I added Ars Technica. Could that be the issue?

Click the link to see

What do you recommend for another news ticker?

cowboysdude

@matthewlawson3 Not sure let me try to load it and see what it does.

Mykle1

@cowboysdude said in MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs:

Not sure let me try to load it and see what it does.

I just installed it. Running for 10 minutes, flawlessly, using the default config entry.

Nice module, Jim! :-)

EDIT:

It is NOT working properly. The 5 or 6 news items keep repeating

Matthewlawson3

@mykle1 interesting.

Like I said changed in the .css file the background to none and I also made a change in the speed of the ticker to 2000 in the MMM-NewsFeedTicker.js file. Could that be causing issues? Or maybe my Ars Technica addition is causing issues for some reason.

Mykle1

@matthewlawson3

I don’t think it’s you. See my edited post

Matthewlawson3

@mykle1 said in MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs:

@cowboysdude said in MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs:

Not sure let me try to load it and see what it does.

I just installed it. Running for 10 minutes, flawlessly, using the default config entry.

Nice module, Jim! :-)

EDIT:

It is NOT working properly. The 5 or 6 news items keep repeating

Okay. At least I know it is not something I did.

General question: How does one uninstall a module? Or do you just comment it or // it out?

cowboysdude

@matthewlawson3 You can delete it from your config entry and go to the MagicMirror/modules directory find the module and delete it so for example :

MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Whatever

You go to MagicMirror/modules
then delete the MMM-Whatever directory…

Gone!

Mykle1

@matthewlawson3

You can comment out the config entry or delete the entry.

Easiest way to delete the module itself. Click your way to the modules folder, enter the modules folder, trash the MMM-NewsFeedTicker.