3rd Party Modules with APIs not loading.

[sdetweil]

‘loading’ is a hard coded message, put out until the module gets data. then the data replaces the ‘loading’ text…

so, no data has come in…

open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i, and select the tab labeled ‘console’ and scroll up to see any errors (usually red text)

[bflbarlow]

Excellent suggestion!

Interestingly enough, the only error logged in the console was for the openweathermap.

There doesn’t appear to be any errors related to any other modules.

[sdetweil]

@bflbarlow what did you configure for the info you wanted to display?

MyStandings
i tested for baseball, and got a block of data back

[bflbarlow]

Here’s what I have for my config for those four 3rd Party Modules.

The MMM-Launch config is directly copy/pasted from the module’s README, minus the location to “bottom_right”.

		{
				module: "MMM-MyStandings",
				position: "top_left",
				config: {
				updateInterval: 60 * 60 * 1000, // every 60 minutes
				rotateInterval: 1 * 60 * 1000, // every 1 minute
				sports: [
				{ league: "NBA", groups: ["Atlantic", "Central", "Southeast", "Northwest", "Pacific", "Southwest"] },
					]
			}
		},
		{
				module: "MMM-NFL",
				position: "top_left",
				config: {
				focus_on: "GB"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "MMM-CollegeFootballTop25",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				headerText: "AP Top 25",
				teamsToShowAtATime: 2,
				showColumnHeaders: false,
				showPollWeekAndDate: false,
				textClass: "small",
				highlightTeams: ["Wisconsin::#6a2c3e"],
				colorRankChange: false,
				onScreenRefreshRate: 6000,
				animationSpeed: 3000,
			}
		},
		{
    		module: 'MMM-Launch',
    		position: 'bottom_right',               // Best in left or right region
    		config: {
				showPix: "Yes",                 // No = No picture
				showAgency: "Yes",              // No = Launch Agency not shown
				showDescription: "No",          // Yes = full description of mission under picture
				useHeader: false,               // false if you don't want a header
				header: "We have liftoff!",     // Any text you want. useHeader must be true
				maxWidth: "300px",
    		}
		},

[Mykle1]

@bflbarlow said in 3rd Party Modules with APIs not loading.:

The MMM-Launch config is directly copy/pasted from the module’s README, minus the location to “bottom_right”.

I just ran this module. There is a delay in loading (< 30 seconds). I believe it to be an api delay issue because the module will run in less than 30 seconds.

I just took this screenshot.

[Mykle1]

And another as it goes through the rotation.

[bflbarlow]

I’m glad yours works.

Mine still doesn’t.

If 30 seconds is what I have to wait, then I’m already 120+ times past that (over an hour) with no rotation.

I’m curious if you have any suggestions on things to try to help narrow this issue down.

[Mykle1]

@bflbarlow

Try disabling the other modules to see if it loads. If not, I would delete the MMM- Launch module folder and clone it again, trying it alone again. If that does not work then something else is amiss. I assure you, the module does work and it should work for you.

[bflbarlow]

I’ll give that a try.

I’m not concerned with that specific module not working. 3rd Party Modules I’ve installed that do not utilize APIs work perfectly well and the default modules work perfectly well as well.

It is a trend however, that of the six total 3rd Party Modules that I have tried and tested that do connect to APIs, none of them appear to be receiving data, which is why I am still slightly suspicious about something being wrong in the general Raspberry Pi configuration. But that wouldn’t explain why the default modules work perfectly well despite pulling from the openweathermap API.

[Mykle1]

@bflbarlow

Then my suggestion should confirm or eliminate that suspicion. Good luck and report back here.

[bflbarlow]

Removing the modules file, starting from a fresh config.js, cloning back the modules file, and adding the MMM-Launch config didn’t yield any data after the last 5 minutes.

I’m thinking I’ll just cut ties and start again from scratch with a fresh install of raspbian. Maybe that’ll reset anything that might have gone haywire in the setup.

[bflbarlow]

Unfortunately, a fresh raspbian image and MagicMirror install doesn’t appear to solve the problem.

Still open to any/all suggestions.

It’s been sitting on T - Minus 5 seconds for the last 10 minutes.

[Mykle1]

@bflbarlow

Please start MM using npm start dev. You should see an error for MMM-Launch.

Question: You are cloning the module into the MagicMirror/modules folder? Not into the default folder?

[Mykle1]

The error, in the dev console on loading, should look like this

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined. As the api is slow to respond. Then, upon refresh, the module works normally, or should.

[bflbarlow]

MMM-Launch is located at home/pi/MagicMirror/modules.

The only errors were for openweathermap, so I removed that from the config.

I’m only seeing some warnings, but no more errors.

[bflbarlow]

I’ll include a screenshot here in a minute, but I’m noticing that “MMM-Launch received a module notification: CLOCK_SECOND from sender: clock” is being logged. Is that expected?

EDIT: Screenshot.

[Mykle1]

@bflbarlow

I believe that is just the clock module broadcasting a notification and should have no affect on MMM-Launch as MMM-Launch has no action to perform when receiving.

[Mykle1]

@bflbarlow

Can you open a browser and try this url?

https://launchlibrary.net/1.2/launch?next=60&mode=verbose

[bflbarlow]

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[Mykle1]

@bflbarlow

Going out for a smoke. I’ll be back in 10.