Looking for beta testers for MMM-Remote-Control

[Jopyth]

@rvdgeer Would be great to find out what causes this and hopefully fix it, however it is still not clear to me, what the reason is. I will investigate a little bit more on the weekend. Maybe I am able to reproduce the issues, could you post your node --version?

In the meantime you could compare your config.js and the config.js.backupX and see if you find possible differences?

[rvdgeer]

This morning (CET) I have a little more time to do bug reports, troubleshoot and answer some of your questions.
So, first things first.

My node version:
v6.8.1

About the config backups:
I noticed the that the double quotes were added to the keys and values before the backup was made.
This means I don’t have a backup of the true original.
It also means I can only compare the current config file to the backup and not the the original.

Another thing I noticed is that backupfile got overwritten this morning.
Because my MagicMirror is still a work in progress it’s powered off most of the time.
When I tried to reproduce the issues I came across last time I noticed that the first backup I made was saved as config.js.backup1, overwriting a previous backup.
At least for me this wasn;t expected behaviour and I don’t think it’s how I wish to save (or lose) my backups.

About saving hidden/shown modules:
As I said before, I haven’t set any special permisions and I’m using the default useron my Pi Zero: pi
Becasue there’s no keyboard and mouse attached (the Pi Zero’s micro usb port is used for a wifi dongle) I use ssh and scp (and of cource the Remote!) to do most editing, testing and troubleshooting.
On saving the current state of hidden/shown modules the pm2 logs reported this:
On hiding the helloworld module:

0|mm       | ** Message: console message: http://localhost:8080/modules/MMM-Remote-Control//MMM-Remote-Control.js @219: [object Object]
0|mm       | ** Message: console message: http://localhost:8080/js/logger.js @20: helloworld is suspended.
0|mm       | ** Message: console message: http://localhost:8080/js/module.js @313: TypeError: Object is not a function (evaluating 'callback()')

On saving the current state directly after:

0|mm       | ** Message: console message: http://localhost:8080/modules/MMM-Remote-Control//MMM-Remote-Control.js @219: [object Object]
0|mm       | Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
0|mm       | { Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control/settings.json'
0|mm       |     at Error (native)
0|mm       |   errno: -13,
0|mm       |   code: 'EACCES',
0|mm       |   syscall: 'open',
0|mm       |   path: '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Remote-Control/settings.json' }
0|mm       | MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
0|mm       | If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

This can be reproduced every time when I follow these steps.
I you need any specific testing, please let me know and I’ll try to find the time.

[rvdgeer]

And one more.
On restarting I get the following error:

0|mm       | { Error: Command failed: pm2 restart mm
0|mm       |     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:206:12)
0|mm       |     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
0|mm       |     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
0|mm       |     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:877:16)
0|mm       |     at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:334:11)
0|mm       |     at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
0|mm       |     at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
0|mm       |     at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:498:12)
0|mm       |   killed: true,
0|mm       |   code: null,
0|mm       |   signal: 'SIGTERM',
0|mm       |   cmd: 'pm2 restart mm' }
0|mm       | Loading config ...
0|mm       | Loading module helpers ...
0|mm       | No helper found for module: helloworld.
0|mm       | No helper found for module: alert.
0|mm       | Initializing new module helper ...
0|mm       | No helper found for module: clock.
0|mm       | Initializing new module helper ...
0|mm       | Initializing new module helper ...
0|mm       | No helper found for module: currentweather.
0|mm       | No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
0|mm       | Initializing new module helper ...
0|mm       | No helper found for module: compliments.
0|mm       | Initializing new module helper ...
0|mm       | All module helpers loaded.
0|mm       | Starting server op port 8080 ...
0|mm       | Server started ...
0|mm       | Connecting socket for: MMM-Remote-Control
0|mm       | Starting node helper for: MMM-Remote-Control
0|mm       | Connecting socket for: MMM-Traffic
0|mm       | MMM-Traffic helper started ...
0|mm       | Connecting socket for: calendar
0|mm       | Starting node helper for: calendar
0|mm       | Connecting socket for: MMM-NetworkScanner
0|mm       | Starting module: MMM-NetworkScanner
0|mm       | Connecting socket for: newsfeed
0|mm       | Starting module: newsfeed
0|mm       | Sockets connected & modules started ...
0|mm       | Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://localhost:8080

[done]

Is there any new version to test?

[Jopyth]

@done Kind of, yes. I think I have not fixed all mentioned errors, but hopefully the major ones. Also @Mr-Meeseeks added some new functionality (sending alerts).

Feel free to git pull the current status and test again. :) It should no longer mess up config.js files as much, but it still could be. It is using config.js.backupX so make manual backup somewhere else.

[Mr.Meeseeks]

@rvdgeer do you have pm2 installed and configured? Oh looked above, you do. Well I have noticed even though logs show command error, it still works, I think it’s because node doesn’t surround commands in quotes.