<![CDATA[Communication between webserver and MM]]>Hi, I want to create a communication between the server.js and the main.js . I send a http get request to the server, and it needs to send a message to the MM to, for instance, hide a module.

I’ve tried with IPC (ipcMain, ipcRenderer), but every time there seems to be something wrong. Undefined variables or non-existing methods.

Can some one assist?

thanks!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1474/communication-between-webserver-and-mmRSS for NodeMon, 15 Jun 2026 07:24:02 GMTFri, 20 Jan 2017 22:34:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Communication between webserver and MM on Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:34:13 GMT]]>@strawberry-3.141
Indeed, that’s what I realized after browsing through the syslog code. Kudo’s!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/12012https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/12012Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:34:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Communication between webserver and MM on Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:17:59 GMT]]>@bartalluyn thats what i meant in first place

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/12011https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/12011Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:17:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Communication between webserver and MM on Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:10:54 GMT]]>Hi there,
I’ve been playing around, and changed the solution to the MMM-syslog alternative.
Check it out in my blogpost:
[https://smartmirrorprojectblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/an-alternative-custom-module/](link url)

Thanks again for the pointer!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/12009https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/12009Sun, 22 Jan 2017 12:10:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Communication between webserver and MM on Sun, 22 Jan 2017 09:05:38 GMT]]>@broberg

thank you very much for pointing this out to me. Looking at the code that might indeed be a viable alternative.
I’m going to check it out, and post an article to my blog with my findings.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/11975https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/11975Sun, 22 Jan 2017 09:05:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Communication between webserver and MM on Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:21:12 GMT]]>I’m no where near a coder so disregard this If I don’t get it, but after some fast reading of your blog post, it sounds like you should be able to use the code from [card:paviro/MMM-syslog]

to take commands from HTTP, the syslog module takes information from a string like this : http://MIRROR_IP:MIRROR_PORT/syslog?type=INFO&message=YOUR_MESSAGE

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/11896https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/11896Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:21:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Communication between webserver and MM on Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:50:17 GMT]]>Re: Communication between webserver and MM

Hi strawberry,
many thanks for your reply.

I’ve been playing around. A lot. And I’ve come to a solution.
The reason why I want to adjust the core is because I want to be able to control the entire mirror from another application. Whether it be a desktop application, another background process, and even Alexa Voice Services. The easiest way to do this is via HTTP I think, certainly because those processes could be running on other machines. I’ve succeeded in creating a system to do this. You can read all about in on my blog.

[https://smartmirrorprojectblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/letting-the-electron-server-speak-to-the-mirror-client/](link url)

Thanks again!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/11892https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/11892Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:50:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Communication between webserver and MM on Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:44:40 GMT]]>@bartalluyn you can extend the server in a module and there you also can perform tasks like hide other modules, there is no need to change the core for it

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/11856https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/11856Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:44:40 GMT