MMM-GoogleBirthdaysProvider giving Error

[lu-need]

Re: MMM-GoogleBirthdaysProvider No red birthday cake

Hi! I am new here, building my first project and I am stuck. I cannot get the googlebirthdaysprovider to work. Here is the config:

			module: "calendar",
			header: "Upcoming Birthdays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				displayRepeatingCountTitle: true,
				calendars: [
						{
						
							url: 'http://localhost:8080/mmm-googlebirthdaysprovider',
							symbol: "birthday-cake",
							repeatingCountTitle: "Birthday",
							color: '#f00',
							colored: true,
							coloredSymbolOnly: true,
						}	
					]
			}
		}, code_text

it’s gotta be user error – what am I doing wrong? Thank you so much!

[joey]

@lu-need

Just to make sure, do you have the opening curly bracket before your first line above? Also, why do you have “code_text” after the comma at the end?

I also notice that you use single quote marks instead of double-quotes in the config: block. I am not sure that matters, but all of the examples use double-quotes. (Single quotes should work, but there is always the chance that npm, MM, or some other component is expecting double-quotes.)

When you say you cannot get it working, does having that block of code in your config.js cause MM not to launch correctly at all? (Ie., do you get a black screen or the “create a config or check the existng one for errors” message?) Or does MM launch correctly, and the module does not show up? Or it shows up, but just has a “Loading” message instead of the expected calendar?