MMM-NewsAPI

mumblebaj

@darrenhill Your domains are incorrect. Should be all lowercase. Did you also run npm install in the MMM-NewsApi folder?

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj - Thanks for the reply.

I corrected the case, but it’s made no difference.

Yes npm install ran on the folder after doing the git clone (and run again just now to check).

One thing I did notice when going onto the API site is that there doesn’t seem to be any content from the BBC in the feed. Shouldn’t affect the config above as it doesn’t use that domain for the moment, but may explain why the original MMM-News stopped working.

Also can I just confirm that MMM-News is now depreciated, and that MMM-NewsAPI is its successor (as you are author of both)?

mumblebaj

@darrenhill I tested the config that you provided and I am getting results returned from it. MMM-News is still around and can be found here:
MMM-News. MMM-NewsApi is a lightweight version of MMM-News.

Do you see any errors in the terminal or the pm2 logs or in the Dev Window (shift+ctrl+i)?

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj Nothing I can see that’s relevant to MMM-NewsAPI:

http://paste.debian.net/1231616/

The config error (around line 98) was me trying a few different things in the set-up , and made a typo (forgot a comma).

Neither of the modules are giving any response for me. MMM-News was working about a week ago, and then just seemed to stop (or at least not display anything).

Has the BBC stopped making their feeds available to the API, I can’t see anything from them in the stream if I look via their website…

mumblebaj

@darrenhill BBC seems to be working fine.

Not sure why yours is not pulling anything. I am using the following config.

                        module: "MMM-NewsAPI",
                        header: "news",
                        position: "bottom_bar",
                        pages: {"sport": "bottom_bar"},
                        config: {
                                apiKey: "API_KEY",
                                type: "horizontal",
                                choice: "everything",
                                pageSize: 20,
                                sortBy: "publishedAt",
                                drawInterval: 1000*30,
                                templateFile: "template.html",
                                fetchInterval: 1000*60*60,
                                query: {
                                        country: "",
                                        category: "",
                                        q: "",
                                        qInTitle: "",
                                        sources: "",
                                        domains: "bbc.co.uk",
                                        excludeDomains: "",
                                        language: ""
                                        }
                                }
                },```

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj With your exact config above (only adding in my API key) I just get the news title and the divider bar. Nothing below it at all?

Very weird…

mumblebaj

@darrenhill Something else is definitely going on. Can you add debug: true to your config and send me the output?

                    config: {
                            apiKey: "API_KEY",
                            type: "horizontal",
                            choice: "everything",
                            pageSize: 20,
                            sortBy: "publishedAt",
                           debug: true,
                            drawInterval: 1000*30,
                            templateFile: "template.html",
                            fetchInterval: 1000*60*60,
                            query: {

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj Below is a pastebinit of mm-out.log (I presume that’s what you want).

http://paste.debian.net/1231629/

From what I can see, it’s working there fine. It just doesn’t actually display anything?

I’m going to try moving it to the top of the screen just to make sure it’s not something stupid like it’s displaying it below the screen or something like that.

Edited to add - nope, moving it to the top just gives me the same title and divider bar, but this time at the top…

mumblebaj

@darrenhill Ok. It is getting results and sends it to the main module. Can you check in the Developer Window if there is anything received there. You should see something like payload received with the json payload.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj How do I do that?

Normally I access the mirror via ssh, but I can use a keyboard/mouse on it if needed (it’s running in a PiTop Ceed).

mumblebaj

@darrenhill just press ctrl+shift+i and select the console tab

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj In the console there if I filter for MMM-NewsAPI, I can see script and stylesheet loading, but nothing about payloads.

Where in that window do I need to be looking, is that the right place?

mumblebaj

@darrenhill Don’t filter by MMM-NewsApi.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj I’m not seeing anything like that. There are some errors for other modules (DigiClock and weather) but none for NewsAPI but no payload either

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj OK my mistake - I commented out the debugging after the earlier test. Sorry for the confusion!

Adding it back in and now I see the payload in the console.

Still nothing is being actually added in the display though.

I’ve also re-enabled MMM-News, and that isn’t displaying anything either.

mumblebaj

@darrenhill That is strange. You should see the payload received by the main js. Can you deactivate all the other modules and start the mirror with only the NewsApi module?

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj OK there it works.

Partitioning time…

mumblebaj

@darrenhill If it works while you disabled the other modules then there must be a clash with one of them. Best to see which one and let me know. I can then try and see why it is clashing.

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj It’s disagreeing with MMM-Gmailfeed

Commenting that out and the text and graphic appears, restore it and nothing.

Out of interest, what would be the recommended config for MMM-News to get the same (BBC content only, all items)?

I can’t get that to work either, even when MMM-NewsAPI is showing stuff? If possible I would prefer to use MMM-News, as that formatted things better for my mirror layout (as it’s an info-screen I like it vertical and bottom-centre layout).

DarrenHill

@mumblebaj OK from some testing, there is a bad interaction with MMM-News, MMM-NewsAPI and MMM-Gmailfeed.

If I have Gmailfeed active, neither of the news modules work.
If I disable Gmailfeed, NewsAPI works but News doesn’t.
If I disable Gmailfeed and NewsAPI, News works.

So for now I’ve disabled Gmailfeed and removed NewsAPI, as MMM-News fits my needs better. But I would be interested to know what is going wrong, as I would ideally like both MMM-News and MMM-Gmailfeed running, like I used to have up to sometime last week (when MMM-News stopped displaying anything)…

I appreciate this is now moved from MMM-NewsAPI to MMM-News, so if you’d prefer to troubleshoot that in a different thread (is there one for MMM-News?) I’m happy to switch.