MMM-CountUP (COVID19 example)

bibaldo

Description
MMM-CountUP allows you to have a progressive count from a specific date.
It’s easy to use. You only have to put a date and a time (start point).

The repo is https://github.com/bibaldo/MMM-CountUP and feel free to open any Issue (suggestions and ideas are more than welcome)

The example I used was related to COVID19 and the time/date was when our government (Argentina) began the mandatory quarantine

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Bromley47

Hi -I cannot get this feature to show on my Magic Mirror. I am not sure that there is sufficient room on my fairly small screen. Could this be the issue? I have tried positioning at top left before the date and also bottom mid position without anything showing. I have checked code and no faults returned. Also the update showed on the MM from which I assume it must be working but not sure where. Any help would be appreciated.

bhepler

@Bromley47 - As an experiment, put the module in position “fullscreen_below” and see if it appears. If it does not, it’s not a sizing issue.

sdetweil

@Bromley47 what is your position: setting… if its wrong, MM won’t show the data

sonicgoose

@Bromley47 @bibaldo Same problem here. My config:

                {
                        disabled: false,
                        module: "MMM-CountUp",
                        position: "bottom_left",
                        config: {
                                header: "Days Working From Home",
                                date: '2020-03-17',
                                time: '00:00:00',
                        },
                 },

Bromley47

@sonicgoose My apologies for multiple postings - just didn’t know which category would be best!
I have got the module to show on the Mirror (thanks to TimerWolf) I positioned in the top bar and it shows OK, but although I set the date to 2020-03-16 it seems not to count from that date (33 days?) and shows 2 days on the Mirror. Also would like to just count days and maybe hours, not interested in minutes or seconds!!

sdetweil

@Bromley47 said in MMM-CountUP (COVID19 example):

just didn’t know which category would be best!

yah pick one… I’ll delete the other two

you could ask one of us moderators to move it if you don’t get the kind of response you think you need…
(there are no commitments that anyone will reply on this forum)

sonicgoose

@Bromley47 How did you get it to show up? I don’t see a solution here and the other posts appear to now be gone.

sdetweil

@sonicgoose neither of those two topics had any technical content

he said here

I have got the module to show on the Mirror (thanks to TimerWolf)

I don’t know who that is

Bromley47

@sonicgoose If you go to github and search for the MMM-CountUP module there you will see my config file and some helpful suggestions. Although still cannot solve start time (33 days ago) and remove mins and secs. Need someone more expert than me…!

sdetweil

@sonicgoose @Bromley47’s problem was he put the config on the wrong module definition in config.js

bhepler

I haven’t played with this module yet. Does it require a specific date format? “2020-04-01” can be written as “2020-01-04” depending on which country you’re using as a default format.

It has been my experience that Javascript is absolutely rubbish with dates.

Bromley47

@bhepler The read me for this module shows the date format as YYYY-MM-DD so I entered 2020-03-16 because I wanted it to run from 16th March 2020 which up until today is 33 days, but it only shows 2 days on the Mirror?

sdetweil

@Bromley47 try 2020-02-16

I bet he didn’t adjust the month. Date/moment code uses 0 as january
I opened issue on the module github site
https://github.com/bibaldo/MMM-CountUP/issues/3

Bromley47

@sdetweil Hi Sam - thanks for your continued interest in this - I tried the 2020-02-16 date but still showing 2 day??

sdetweil

@Bromley47 ok, so the problem is in default (showFullDate = false) he truncates the year/month/week count,
but does NOT adjust number of days… my original guess was wrong, so the date is the one u want to count from.

I have submitted a pull request to fix this…

||
|| bibaldo’s repo has integrated the fix i provided, I am closing my repo
|| May 8, 2020
||

when he merges my fix, you can git pull in the .original folder
rename them back and delete mine

Bromley47

@sdetweil Fantastic Sam - many thanks - managed to edit with the help of my son who’s well into JavaScript (says it pays the mortgage!) and now shows the correct number of days etc. The remaining problem I have is that to restart the MM when I have done any mods. (such as this one) I have to power off the Raspberry O, which is a bit of a faff. I have tried to use the instructions on git hub by MichMich (Auto starting Magic Mirror) but when I run pm2 restart mm it says Process or Namespace mm not found.
I can only think the Magic Mirror is called by another name but how do I find that out?

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pm2 restart mm
Use --update-env to update environment variables
[PM2][ERROR] Process or Namespace mm not found

sdetweil

@Bromley47 pm2 status will show the names… if u used my installation script it is call MagicMirror
you can also use the number pm2 restart 0

sdetweil

@Bromley47 so you didn’t use my repo with the fix?

Bromley47

@sdetweil id │ name │ mode │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ memory │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0 │ mmstart │ fork │ 0 │ online │ 0% │ 2.4mb │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴───