MMM-dropbox - new module to show Dropbox photos on your mirror!

[michael5r]

Hi,

Just wanted to share a new module I published recently - it’s called mmm-dropbox and allows you to grab images from a Dropbox folder, have them automatically scaled down and displayed in 1 or more rows on your mirror.

As I also point out in the Read Me this is a module with a pretty specific focus - it does exactly what I describe above (and does it well), but it doesn’t support stuff like videos, setting a Dropbox image as the background of your mirror, displaying information about the image, etc. I built this for my wife & this is what she wanted - but, hey, there’s no reason you can’t use it on your mirror as well!

Here’s the repo:
https://github.com/michael5r/mmm-dropbox

And here’s a screenshot of what it looks like on the mirror with the default configuration:

Enjoy!

[Stoffbeuteluwe]

Hi the module show only loading since a couple off days

[sdetweil]

@Stoffbeuteluwe open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i, select the tab labeled console in that new window,
and scroll up to find any errors

[Stoffbeuteluwe]

@sdetweil Hi, no errors ,the strange thing is …sometime it works sometimes not

[sdetweil]

@Stoffbeuteluwe so, its an api usage problem…

[swampy242001]

Hi, got the app on my mirror all ok. The problem is it tells me the dropbox folder does not exist.

Here is the code, please see if I have gone wrong, left folder blank due to wanting all photos.

{
module: ‘mmm-dropbox’,
position: ‘top_bar’, // pick whichever position you want
config: {
token: ‘<kxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxMJG_o0xxgC>’,
folder: ‘<DROPBOX_FOLDER_NAME>’,
// … and whatever else configuration options you want to use
}
},

Would really like to get this working.

Thank you for looking

[sdetweil]

@swampy242001 try ‘/’ as the folder

[KamiSchami]

@sdetweil said in MMM-dropbox - new module to show Dropbox photos on your mirror!:

@swampy242001 try ‘/’ as the folder

Hi, auch das funktioniert nicht bei mir. Was kann es noch sein? VG

[sdetweil]

@KamiSchami did u fill in the token field?

I don’t know anything about this module, but my code that reads images from Dropbox continues to work, do the API is still good

[KamiSchami]

@sdetweil said in MMM-dropbox - new module to show Dropbox photos on your mirror!:

@KamiSchami did u fill in the token field?

I don’t know anything about this module, but my code that reads images from Dropbox continues to work, do the API is still good

Yes, i have the Token.

[sdetweil]

@KamiSchami open the developers window ctrl-shift-i then select the console tab and scroll up to see any errors, usually red text.

also look at the terminal window log, pm2 --lines=100

or the messages in the terminal window where u did npm start

[Blakwatch]

I realize this is an old thread, but I tried installing this module and all I get is “Loading…” on the Magic Mirror. Have tried 2 API tokens and several different folders including Dropbox root. No luck. Help?

[sdetweil]

@blakwatch see the post just before yours for debugging

[Blakwatch]

@sdetweil No errors in developer mode. I have the following in pm2 log:

0|MagicMir | [07.02.2022 14:51.19.466] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
0|MagicMir | [07.02.2022 14:51.19.472] [ERROR] TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')
0|MagicMir |     at Class.getData (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/mmm-dropbox/node_helper.js:54:43)
0|MagicMir |     at Class.socketNotificationReceived (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/mmm-dropbox/node_helper.js:363:18)
0|MagicMir |     at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/node_helper.js:109:11)
0|MagicMir |     at Socket.emit (node:events:394:28)
0|MagicMir |     at Socket.emitUntyped (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/socket.io/dist/typed-events.js:69:22)
0|MagicMir |     at /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/socket.io/dist/socket.js:466:39
0|MagicMir |     at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:78:11)

[sdetweil]

@blakwatch module had trouble getting data don’t know why. open an issue on the module GitHub page…

[michael5r]

Hi guys - there’s a new version of the module out that should fix the Dropbox API issue. Please try it out and see if it works for you.