Running the same module twice with different URL, but same content is being displayed (MMM-HTMLSnippet)

kasperb

Hi all,

I’m running two instances of MMM-HTMLSnippet on my mirror with the objective of showing two different twitter feeds (CNN & Axios). I’ve copied the initial module in the modules folder, renamed it to ‘MMM-HTMLSnippet2’ and changed the *.js file to ‘MMM-HTMLSnippet2.js’. I’ve also updated the first line in *.js file to MMM-HTMLSnippet2. Finally, I’ve updated my config as outlined below.

However, both modules are showing the CNN twitter feed on my mirror.

What did I miss?!

Thanks!


{
  module: "MMM-HTMLSnippet",
  position: "bottom_right",
  config: {
        html:`<a href="https://twitter.com/cnnbrk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Tweets by cnnbrk</a> `, //insert your script or html codes here.
        width: "400px",
        height: "500px",
        backgroundColor: "#FFF",
        updateInterval: 3600000,
      },
  },
{
  module: "MMM-HTMLSnippet2",
  position: "bottom_left",
  config: {
        html:`<a href="https://twitter.com/axios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Tweets by axios</a> `, //insert your script or html codes here.
        width: "400px",
        height: "500px",
        backgroundColor: "#FFF",
        updateInterval: 3600000,
      },
  },```

sdetweil

@kasperb sadly the module is not designed to be used in multiples

the problem is the url to get the html (which isn’t needed anyhow)
the node helper sets up a ‘server’ to return the html,. and the web side calls to get it
‘/MMM-HTMLSnippet’

but MM cannot have two servers with the same name, so first one wins…

if you turn the two entries around, the resutls will be from the top one…

sdetweil

@kasperb you could hack one module to get what I want.

edit the second one, where u changed the name. change the

/MMM-HTMLSnippet

to

/MMM-HTMLSnippet2

in both .js files

kasperb

@sdetweil Thanks for your response. When you say both *.js files, which ones exactly do you mean? There is only one *.js file in the folder with ‘MMM-HTMLSnippet’ in it.

sdetweil

@kasperb node_helper.js

this.expressApp.get("/MMM-HTMLSnippet", (req, res) => {

and
MMM-HTMLSnippet.js

wrapper.src = '/MMM-HTMLSnippet'

kasperb

@sdetweil You’re right; I missed that one.

Thank you - that did the trick and both versions of the module now work as expected.