Trying to write my own Module...

[cowboysdude]

@nbrenn post what you’ve rewritten so they can better understand where your error may be and what I do [whcn I added humidity to the stock weather app] was to look at other modules and pick it apart to see how they were using div and such for styling to better get an understanding how it fit together. These guys are awesome, they like to help!

Actually posting what you have now would help me too! :) I’m trying to create something myself.

[strawberry 3.141]

@nbrenn I’m assuming that you saved your server response into this.xml

getDom: function(){
  var wrapper = document.createElement("div");

  if(this.xml){
    var channels = this.xml.getElementsByTagName("channel");
    for(var i = 0; i < channels.length; i++){
      for(var n = 0; n < channels[i].children.length; n++){
        if(channels[i].children[n].tagName === "name" || channels[i].children[n].tagName === "watts"){
          var element = document.createElement("div");
          element.classList.add(channels[i].children[n].tagName);
          element.innerHTML = channels[i].children[n].textContent;
          wrapper.appendChild(element);
        }
      }
    }
  } else {
    wrapper.innerHTML = "NO DATA";
  }
  return wrapper;
}

this would create two div container for every channel one for the name and the other for watts. each of them would have the css class .name or .watts

[nbrenn]

Thanks for the great support.

I currently have no errors with what you’ve helped provide me with. However, it displays the else condition, and NO DATA.

Right now, my MMM-EMonitor.js looks like the following:

Module.register ("MMM-EMonitor", {
    
    //default module config.
    defaults: {
        // Insert defaults here
        interval: 900000 // Every 15 mins
    },
    
    getStyles: function() {
        return ["MMM-EMonitor.css"];
    },
    
    // Define the start sequence
    start: function() {
        Log.log("Starting module: " + this.name);
        
        //this.securitykey = REDACTED;
        this.url = 'https://api.emonitor.us/location/getCurrentData?security_key=REDACTED';
        this.getCurrentData(this);
    },
    
   getCurrentData: function(that) {
       that.sendSocketNotification('GET-CURRENT-DATA', that.url);
       setTimeout(that.getCurrentData, that.config.interval, that);
    },
    

   getDom: function(){
 	 var wrapper = document.createElement("div");

  	if(this.xml){
   	 var channels = this.xml.getElementsByTagName("channel");
   	 for(var i = 0; i < channels.length; i++){
    	   for(var n = 0; n < channels[i].children.length; n++){
       		if(channels[i].children[n].tagName === "name" || channels[i].children[n].tagName === "watts"){
          	var element = document.createElement("div");
          	element.classList.add(channels[i].children[n].tagName);
          	element.innerHTML = channels[i].children[n].textContent;
          	wrapper.appendChild(element);
        	}
      	}
    	}
  	} else {
    		wrapper.innerHTML = "NO DATA";
  	}
  	return wrapper;
}
});

and my css looks like the following:

.MMM-EMonitor .centered {
    text-align: center;
}

Like I mentioned, the NO DATA is showing up. The security key is working, and returns the XML which I have in my original post.

[mochman]

You don’t have this.xml defined anywhere in your script. If you look at @strawberry-3-141’s post, it says:

I’m assuming that you saved your server response into this.xml

You need to create a function that uses the URL and saves that data in a variable called xml. Since your program never does that, this.xml isn’t defined so your if/else always goes to “NO DATA”.

Why do you have

getCurrentData: function(that) {
       that.sendSocketNotification('GET-CURRENT-DATA', that.url);
       setTimeout(that.getCurrentData, that.config.interval, that);
    },

in your program? Did you just see it in another persons code? This code snippet sends your URL to node_helper.js. Are you using that node_helper to pull the XML data from the website? If so, you’re going to need a socketNotificationReceived function to get the data and put it into the xml variable.

The modules documentation shows you some examples of that.

[nbrenn]

Ahh, that makes sense. I do not have a node_helper.js, and I had the getCurrentData function because I tried to replicate a different module. I will remove these lines of code since they serve no purpose for me at the moment.

I’ll try to take a look at examples to see how to save the data into the xml variable, so that this.xml can be used.

[mochman]

MMM-EMonitor.js

Module.register ("MMM-EMonitor", {

    //default module config.
    defaults: {
        // Insert defaults here
        interval: 900000, // Every 15 mins
        security_key: null,
        animationSpeed: 1000
    },

    getStyles: function() {
        return ["MMM-EMonitor.css"];
    },

    // Define the start sequence
    start: function() {
        Log.log("Starting module: " + this.name);
        this.loaded = false;
        this.xml = null;
        this.url = 'https://api.emonitor.us/location/getCurrentData?security_key=';
        setInterval(this.getCurrentData(), this.config_interval);
    },

   getCurrentData: function() {
        var self = this;
        var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
                if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
                        self.xml = self.parseXML(this.responseText);
                        self.loaded = true;
                        self.updateDom(self.config.animationSpeed);
                }
        };
        xhttp.open("GET", this.url+this.config.security_key, true);
        xhttp.send();
    },


   getDom: function(){
        var wrapper = document.createElement("div");
        if(!this.loaded) {
                wrapper.innerHTML = "Loading...";
                return wrapper;
        }
        if(this.xml !== null){
         var table = document.createElement("table");
         table.classList.add("xsmall", "table");
         var channels = this.xml.getElementsByTagName("channel");
         for(var i = 0; i < channels.length; i++){
           var row = document.createElement("tr");
           for(var n = 0; n < channels[i].children.length; n++){
                if(channels[i].children[n].tagName === "name" || channels[i].children[n].tagName === "watts"){
                var element = document.createElement("td");
                element.classList.add(channels[i].children[n].tagName);
                element.innerHTML = channels[i].children[n].textContent;
                row.appendChild(element);
                }
           table.appendChild(row);
           }
         }
         wrapper.appendChild(table);
        } else {
                console.log("Returned no Data");
                wrapper.innerHTML = "NO DATA";
        }
        return wrapper;
   },

   parseXML: function(xmlStr){
        return ( new window.DOMParser() ).parseFromString(xmlStr, "text/xml");
   }

});

Your config.js should have:

{
                        module: 'MMM-EMonitor',
                        position: 'top_left',
                        config: {
                                security_key: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'  //your security key
                        }
                }

This just displays everything in a large table. You may want to modify the for loop to not display data when the wattage is 0, that should get rid of a bunch of rows.

[nbrenn]

This is awesome.

A few clarifying questions:

• Is the purpose of the xhttp.open("GET"... line to make the API call to the website? Is this when the connection is made to the XML page?

• So, you’re going through each "channel" and creating a row in the table for each channel? And then for each channel’s name and wattage, a data object is created?

• If I didn’t have any .css file, would the data still show up?

Thanks for the clarifications, and again, thanks for the great support. This community is top-notch!

[strawberry 3.141]

@nbrenn

1. yes the xmlhttprequest is also better known as ajax request
2. for each channel a row will be created and for name and watts a column will be created with their specific values
3. the data will still be displayed, but without any custom styling

[nbrenn]

I’m trying to display just the names where the watts that are != 0. I want both the values greater than 0 and the values less than 0 (in order to include the negative values from the solar generation).

I attempted to modify the getDom. It is displaying every names in the .XML and shows the watts value only if it is != 0. But how do I also remove the names that are 0? The output currently looks like the following:

Power Panel        66
Outlets            20
Heat Pump
Oven   
East Solar Panel  -70
West Solar Panel  -50

getDom: function(){
        var wrapper = document.createElement("div");
        if(!this.loaded) {
                wrapper.innerHTML = "Loading...";
                return wrapper;
        }
        if(this.xml !== null){
         var table = document.createElement("table");
         table.classList.add("xsmall", "table");
         var channels = this.xml.getElementsByTagName("channel");
         for(var i = 0; i < channels.length; i++){
           var row = document.createElement("tr");
           for(var n = 0; n < channels[i].children.length; n++){
                if(channels[i].children[n].tagName === "name" || channels[i].children[n].tagName === "watts"){
                var element = document.createElement("td");
                element.classList.add(channels[i].children[n].tagName);
                if (channels[i].children[n].textContent != 0){
			element.innerHTML = channels[i].children[n].textContent;
			row.appendChild(element);
			}
                
                }
           table.appendChild(row);
           }
         }
         wrapper.appendChild(table);
        } else {
                console.log("Returned no Data");
                wrapper.innerHTML = "NO DATA";
        }
        return wrapper;
   },

[mochman]

Looks like you need to modify your other if/then statement. The one you’ve modified checks both the name and watts to see if they are !=0. Since the name always !=0, it’s displayed.