mmm Dad Jokes

[bokow]

Ok, what am I not doing right. I have placed the module
in the config file and get no errror when running he MMM yet nothing shows on the screen when I run MM other than the normal MM items.

[motdog]

Try a reboot. I believe that it’s needed for this module

[Mykle1]

@bokow

Have you cloned the module into your modules folder?

Your config entry should look like this. There is a comma missing in the example of the README file:

{
         module: 'MMM-Dad-Jokes',
         position: 'bottom_left', // Or wherever you want
         config: {
             updateInterval: 60000,
             fadeSpeed: 4000
         }
     }, 

Notice the closing curly bracket. It has a comma after it that needs to be there which is not depicted in the README example. Here is a screenshot of the module displayed in the lower_third position.

[bokow]

Thanks for all the reply’s will let you know if it works

[bokow]

Still have not got it to work, Here are the errors:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token var
at new Script (vm.js:74:7)
at createScript (vm.js:246:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:298:10)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:678:28)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:722:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:620:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:559:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:551:3)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:658:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)

[bhepler]

@bokow - Copy & paste your relevant config.js entry for MMM-Dad-Jokes here and we’ll take a quick look at it. Remember to use the markdown features of the board.

[bokow]

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
*

• By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
• MIT Licensed.
• For more information how you can configurate this file
• See https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#configuration

*/

var config = {
address: “localhost”, // Address to listen on, can be:
// - “localhost”, “127.0.0.1”, “::1” to listen on loopback interface
// - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
// - “”, “0.0.0.0”, “::” to listen on any interface
// Default, when address config is left out, is “localhost”
port: 8080,
ipWhitelist: [“127.0.0.1”, “::ffff:127.0.0.1”, “::1”], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
// or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
// [“127.0.0.1”, “::ffff:127.0.0.1”, “::1”, “::ffff:192.168.1.5”],
// or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
// [“127.0.0.1”, “::ffff:127.0.0.1”, “::1”, “::ffff:192.168.3.0/28”],

language: "en",
timeFormat: 24,
units: "metric",

modules: [
	{
		module: "alert",
	},
	{
		module: "updatenotification",
		position: "top_bar"
	},
	
	{
        module: 'MMM-icanhazdadjoke',
        position: 'bottom_right',
        config: {
            // See below for configurable options
        	}
    		},
	{	
		module: "clock",
		position: "top_left"
	},
	{
		module: "calendar",
		header: "US Holidays",
		position: "top_left",
		config: {
			calendars: [
				{
					symbol: "calendar-check",
					url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
				}
			]
		}
	},
	{
		module: "compliments",
		position: "lower_third"
	},
	{
		module: "currentweather",
		position: "top_right",
		config: {
			location: "Saginaw",
			locationID: "5007989",  //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/; unzip the gz file and find your city
			appid: "90f012418925c43d4ac4e54f147c53be"
		}
	},
	{
		module: "weatherforecast",
		position: "top_right",
		header: "Weather Forecast",
		config: {
			location: "Saginaw",
			locationID: "5007989",  //ID from https://openweathermap.org/city
			appid: "90f012418925c43d4ac4e54f147c53be"
		}
	},
	{
		module: "newsfeed",
		position: "bottom_bar",
		config: {
			feeds: [
				{
					title: "New York Times",
					url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
				}
			],
			showSourceTitle: true,
			showPublishDate: true
		}
	},
]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== “undefined”) {module.exports = config;}

[bokow]

Never mind got the Dad Jokes working by moving where the text was displayed to a blank area of the screen

[sdetweil]

@bokow could u edit your post with the config and add three backticks (shifted left of 1 key) on the 1st line, then config start on line 2, and 3 backticks on the last line by themselves…

[bokow]

All I had to do was place the location of the jokes to an unoccupied part of the screen. It now works as advertised but t his raises a new problem with the calendar module. The calendar shows nothing, even holidays. I guess my question is where does this app take the calendar info from??