MMM-RFID and MMM-Profileswitcher with RC522

[Kavilan]

Re: Profile Switcher - RC522 RFID

Hi all, I’ve been trying to get my RFID tag to switch profile and I have referred every solution so far I can’t seem to get MMM-RFID to detect my card in MagicMirror. When i run the test given it can read the card and the data but when i run npm start dev, I can’t see anything about notifcation getting sent when i scan my RFID. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[sdetweil]

@kavilan said in MMM-RFID and MMM-Profileswitcher with RC522:

MMM-RFID

did u do the steps in the doc to program the rfid tag?

[Kavilan]

@sdetweil Yeah I’ve done that and when I run the test read.py from MMM_RFID it shows the UID and the Data in decimals.

And this is the config.

[sdetweil]

@kavilan the code says it uses

python MFRC522-python/Dump.py
(from the module folder)

to read the rfid chip on the pi

[Kavilan]

@sdetweil When I run Dump.py I still am able to scan the RFID tag and the correct data is shown. SoI dont know why it doesn’t work when running MagicMirror

[sdetweil]

@kavilan ok, the just send a notice that an rfid was read…

open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i on the MM keyboard and
select the tab labeled console

you should be able to see the events being sent out
“RFID_UID”, payload
and
“RFID_DATA”, payload

and any events in the config events list

[Kavilan]

@sdetweil Yeah this is how I found out there are no events being sent out by MMM-RFID. I have two tags and I’ve tried both and nothing new shows up in the console

[sdetweil]

@kavilan when u ran the python pgm, did you use python or python3 as the command?

the module uses python

to change u can edit the rfid.js file and change this line

   this.rc522py = this.spawn('python', ['-u', __dirname + '/MFRC522-python/Dump.py']);

to use python3

   this.rc522py = this.spawn('python'3, ['-u', __dirname + '/MFRC522-python/Dump.py']);

[Kavilan]

@sdetweil I used python. Python 3 thrown error whenever used since all those codes don’t use () for print function.

[sdetweil]

@kavilan so it’s down to the output parser in the rfid.js