folder monitor/ file creation...

[sdetweil]

@banbutcher sorry, nothing more than what I have already given…

look up fs.watch() (its just a google search away)

and then u have to understand how modules work, read the doc and look at my sample.

i could clarify the code from before

fs.watch(folder_name, 
        callback_function(eventType, filename) {
	    if (filename) {
            }
        }
)

[banbutcher]

@sdetweil

i have it partly working… i have the contents displaying on my mirror but its all showing up on one line, how can i display it with each line break as in txt file?
deluge.js:

Module.register("deluge",{
	defaults: {
		updateInterval: 30 * 60 * 1000 //reads the file every 30 mins
	},

	start: function(){
		this.sendSocketNotification("START", this.config);
	},

	socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) {
		if(notification === "DATA"){
			this.dataFile = payload;
			this.updateDom();
		}
	},

	getDom: function(){
		var wrapper = document.createElement("div");
		if(this.dataFile){
			wrapper.innerHTML = this.dataFile;
		} else {
			wrapper.innerHTML = "No data";
		}
		return wrapper;
	}
});

and my node helper.js

const NodeHelper = require("node_helper");
const fs= require("fs");

module.exports = NodeHelper.create({
//here comes the part of the nodehelper after the 3 dots as posted above

	socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) {
		if(notification === "START"){
			this.config = payload;
			this.readData();
    			setInterval(() => {
        			this.readData();
    			}, this.config.updateInterval);
		}
	},

	readData: function(){
		//to read a file to do the following
		fs.readFile("new-tv-list.txt", "utf8", (err, data) => {
			if (err) throw err;
			this.sendSocketNotification("DATA", data);
		});
	}
});

thanks

[sdetweil]

@banbutcher said in folder monitor/ file creation...:

  if(this.dataFile){
  	wrapper.innerHTML = this.dataFile;
  } else {
  	wrapper.innerHTML = "No data";
  }

if the content you are injecting in NOT html, then you should use innerText…
it might recognize the line ends as such… they are not line ends in html

if the innerText doesn’t work, then u will have to convert the line ends t html line breaks
replace '\n\ with ‘
’

note that html is NOT UTF 8

[banbutcher]

here is the script that im using to retreve file names…

#!/bin/bash

TARGET=/media/TheVault/UnWatched/
PROCESSED=/media/TheVault/Torrentopia/Torrent-Files/

inotifywait -m -e create -e moved_to -r --format "%f" $TARGET \
        | while read FILENAME
                do
                        echo Detected $FILENAME, Adding to list...
                        echo $FILENAME | cat - $PROCESSED/new-tv-list.txt > temp && mv temp $PROCESSED/new-tv-list.txt
#                        echo $FILENAME `date` >> $PROCESSED/new-tv-list.txt
			cp $PROCESSED/new-tv-list.txt /home/pi/MagicMirror/new-tv-list.txt

                done

if i take out the utf8 part i get an [object array buffer] instead of my file names…

[banbutcher]

@banbutcher

so i put back in the utf8 and then added <br> after i echo the filename and now its working fine now, i need to tweek it more to suit my needs but so far so good! thanks for your help @sdetweil im sure ill be asking more silly questions again soon! :)

[sdetweil]

@banbutcher said in folder monitor/ file creation...:

ill be asking more silly questions

no such thing… ask away…

[sdetweil]

@banbutcher you can also convert the buffer to a string

buffer_object.toString()