Changing MMM-Traffic into using TomTom API

[rxlDavid]

@sdetweil
hi,
I changed the API Return, there is an option to get it back in JSON.
What do you mean with write message to the console? & where/when should I execute “npm start >somefile.txt”

[sdetweil]

@rxldavid

write message to console
console,log(“some message”+variable+…)

[sdetweil]

@rxldavid u probably use pm2, so

pm2 stop all

then

cd ~/MagicMirror

then u can

npm start >somefile.txt

ctrl-c to end

repeat til working

[sdetweil]

@rxldavid the json data u posted is not valid… something is missing after the trailing comma

[rxlDavid]

@sdetweil
I know, it was just an extinct, since it used private Data,
I updated it to the full return with random Data

[sdetweil]

@rxldavid if u put it thru the formatter

{
  "formatVersion": "0.0.12",
  "routes": [
    {
      "summary": {
        "lengthInMeters": 1147,
        "travelTimeInSeconds": 140,
        "trafficDelayInSeconds": 0,
        "trafficLengthInMeters": 0,
        "departureTime": "2021-09-19T17:16:54+02:00",
        "arrivalTime": "2021-09-19T17:19:14+02:00"
      },
      "legs": [
        {
          "summary": {
            "lengthInMeters": 1147,
            "travelTimeInSeconds": 140,
            "trafficDelayInSeconds": 0,
            "trafficLengthInMeters": 0,
            "departureTime": "2021-09-19T17:16:54+02:00",
            "arrivalTime": "2021-09-19T17:19:14+02:00"
          },
          "points": [
            {
              "latitude": 52.5093,
              "longitude": 13.42937
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50904,
              "longitude": 13.42913
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50895,
              "longitude": 13.42904
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50868,
              "longitude": 13.4288
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.5084,
              "longitude": 13.42857
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50816,
              "longitude": 13.42839
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50791,
              "longitude": 13.42825
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50757,
              "longitude": 13.42772
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50752,
              "longitude": 13.42785
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50742,
              "longitude": 13.42809
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50735,
              "longitude": 13.42824
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.5073,
              "longitude": 13.42837
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50696,
              "longitude": 13.4291
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50673,
              "longitude": 13.42961
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50619,
              "longitude": 13.43092
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50608,
              "longitude": 13.43116
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50574,
              "longitude": 13.43195
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50564,
              "longitude": 13.43218
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50528,
              "longitude": 13.43299
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50513,
              "longitude": 13.43336
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.505,
              "longitude": 13.43366
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50464,
              "longitude": 13.43451
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50451,
              "longitude": 13.43482
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50444,
              "longitude": 13.43499
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50418,
              "longitude": 13.43564
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50364,
              "longitude": 13.4369
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50343,
              "longitude": 13.43738
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.5033,
              "longitude": 13.43767
            },
            {
              "latitude": 52.50275,
              "longitude": 13.43873
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "sections": [
        {
          "startPointIndex": 0,
          "endPointIndex": 28,
          "sectionType": "TRAVEL_MODE",
          "travelMode": "car"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

[rxlDavid]

@sdetweil
this is also the view Tomtom provided me.
but I don’t get what I need to change.
right now I got the following error in the console:
[19.09.2021 17:22.10.688] [ERROR] Failed to fetch git data for MMM-Traffic: Erro r: block timeout reached

[sdetweil]

@rxldavid that is from the updateNotifcation module which has a bug … fixed in next release

after u got the data, then what did u do?

[rxlDavid]

@sdetweil
Sorry, Tomtom provides a website which returns the data.
So it wasn’t my MagicMirror returning it

[sdetweil]

@rxldavid javascript provides a built in library call JSON

which provides 2 useful functions

parse (text) = converts to javascript object
stringify(object,routine(most if the time u would use null ),indentation ) = returns string of text

so then u could

console.log("mesage="+JSON.stringify(pointer_to_data_returned_from_api))

to see it on the console (or somefile.txt if u redirect to a file)