I changed text in a module, now I don't get the module

[HALPi-Thousand]

So, I’ve got MM on a Pi 4b. I installed Magic Mirror, and changed a few things - measurements from Metric to Imperial, being American and behind the times, and weather locations. So far so good.

Then I went and changed the compliments (because I don’t need a computer to tell me I’m sexy), and the opening messages (because I do want it to know I’m the boss and tell me it does).

Now it doesn’t do either one. just a big blank space. I was going to just toss it and re-install it, but that would just mean it would happen again next time.

So, I think I’d like to know how to prevent it instead. Obviously, other people manage to do this, so I’d like to know where I’m getting it wrong.

I opened the xxx.js files in the desktop environment; it opened them automatically with Mousepad, which I gather is the Pi’s text editing app. Should I have used something else? Maybe open it in the Terminal, and if so, how? Or is there something else I’m missing?

Thanks, guys

[sdetweil]

@halpi-thousand 1st

NEVER edit the module source code

ALL config goes in config.js

to recover a shipped mm file do( from the mm folder)

git status

if a file is modified, then do

git checkout  ???  

where ???
is the full path to the modified source file

for compliments, for example

git checkout modules/default/compliments/compliments.js

[HALPi-Thousand]

@sdetweil said in I changed text in a module, now I don't get the module:

NEVER edit the module source code
ALL config goes in config.js
to recover a shipped mm file do( from the mm folder)
git status

Thanks, that did the trick.

But how can I change things like the compliments text and opening greetings and such, things that aren’t in the main config file? Or am I just stuck with a very obsequious Pi?

[sdetweil]

@halpi-thousand just put the stuff into config.js

see the two links in my signature below