MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs

Mykle1

@cowboysdude

Hey, have you seen Jim these days? I wonder where he disappeared to.

cowboysdude

@mykle1 Great question…I wonder where Robert is… or @strawberry-3-141 … I feel like a latch key kid…

Mykle1

@cowboysdude

Last online:

Jim - 24 days
Robert - Oct 2020

Matthewlawson3

@mykle1 thank you!

sdetweil

@Matthewlawson3 the doc doesn’t mention it, but by default in only shows the 1st 5 items regardless of how many sources u have

to get all of them do

maxNewsItems: 0,

in the module config above the list of sources
----- edit: i was incorrect… the list gets rebuilt each time , never mind
~~BUT ----- this causes a problem, the list is never cleared, so it continues to grow and grow~~

haven’t seen the hang yet… one possible source in fetcher.js,

comment out the items=[]; line as shown below

		reloadTimer = null;
		//items = [];

its the same name as the global , so there could confusion over which list to add to.

Mykle1

@sdetweil said in MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs:

comment out the items=[]; line as shown below

Thanks bro. I don’t even use this module. I was just trying to help out the user above. Hopefully, he’s paying attention and has read your suggestion.

sdetweil

@mykle1 fixed

Mykle1

@sdetweil said in MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs:

@mykle1 fixed

Now I really hope he’s paying attention.

Well done, bro. :thumbsup:

sdetweil

@mykle1 also sent him a dm…

Matthewlawson3

@sdetweil Okay so the reason it hangs and doesn’t go to other sources is because of what exactly? Sorry just saw this and trying to get up to speed.

I added the max news items where you said I think if I understand correctly (see config file below). I also changed the number to 0 inside the MMM-NewsFeedTicker.js.

Where is the fetcher.js? Can’t find that file.

The module keeps repeating NYT and USA Today and doesn’t move on to BBC or Ars Technica.

{
	disabled: false,
	module: "MMM-NewsFeedTicker",
	position: "bottom_bar",
	//classes: "day_scheduler",
	config: {
		maxNewsItems: 0,
	    feeds: [
		{
			title: "New York Times",
			url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
			customLogo: "NYT_logo_rss_250x40.png"
		},
		{
			title: "USA Today",
			url: "http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories",
			customLogo: "RSS_Syndication_Logo-USATN.png"
		},
		{
			title: "BBC World News",
			url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#",
			customLogo: "bbc_news_120x60.gif"
		},
		{
			title: "Ars Technica",
			url: "http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/technology-lab",
			customLogo: "arstechnica.jpg"
		}
		
    	    ]
	}
    },