3rd Party Modules with APIs not loading.

Mykle1

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.

bflbarlow

That URL worked great on the browser.

I really appreciate the help troubleshooting.

Mykle1

@bflbarlow

No problem. Ok, so you can get data. Now let’s see what the module tells us about getting the data. Can you go in the MMM-Launch.js file and uncomment line 124. Save. Run MM again using npm start dev and see if it reports receiving the data from the api. It should look something like this

>Array (60)

bflbarlow

No errors a few minutes in.

Mykle1

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

No errors a few minutes in.

Sucks! You should see it right away. I’m stumped. I can’t reproduce this behavior with my module. You CAN get data, based on the url test. But, for you, the module is not getting the data. Thus, it’s not loading.

I don’t think this is a module issue. I’ll ask my friend on the forum to look into this for you. He is amazing at troubleshooting MM and modules. I’m sure he will take a look at this. I’m sorry I couldn’t figure this out for you.

bflbarlow

Sounds good and no worries.

Thanks for giving it a shot!

Mykle1

@bflbarlow

You’re welcome. I’m sure it will get worked out when the right people take a look at it.

Peace.

Mykle1

@bflbarlow

I’ve sent you a private message

sdetweil

edit the ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-MyStandings/node_helper.js

replace the getData function with this

	getData: function (notification, url) {
		var self = this;
		console.log('requesting:' + url);
		request({ url: url, method: 'GET' }, function (error, response, body) {
			if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
				var result = JSON.parse(body);
				console.log("have data from api size="+body.length);
				self.sendSocketNotification(notification, result);
			} else {
				console.log("MMM-MyStandings : Could not load data."+" error="+error+" status="+response.statusCode);
			}
		});
	},

open a terminal window
stop mirror , pm2 stop 0

then start manually
npm start dev

you should see

...
MMM-MyStandings helper started ...
Sockets connected & modules started ...
Launching application.
Create new calendar fetcher for url: http://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics - Interval: 300000
[14416:1017/204410.405574:ERROR:CONSOLE(2564)] "The given range isn't in document.", source: chrome-devtools://devtools/bundled/shell.js (2564)
Create new news fetcher for url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml - Interval: 300000
requesting:http://site.web.api.espn.com/apis/v2/sports/basketball/nba/standings?level=3&sort=gamesbehind:asc,winpercent:desc
have data from api size=126499

or something

please advise

sdetweil

@bflbarlow did u see my message above?

bflbarlow

I did.

Sorry, I haven’t had the time to pick up troubleshooting.

Will hope to sometime this weekend.

sdetweil

@bflbarlow cool. thanks for the feedback… i just noticed that I hadn’t tagged you…

no rush