Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Communication between webserver and MM
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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!
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@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
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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.Thanks again!
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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
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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. -
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!
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@bartalluyn thats what i meant in first place
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@strawberry-3.141
Indeed, that’s what I realized after browsing through the syslog code. Kudo’s!
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