MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs

[Matthewlawson3]

@sdetweil I understand. Sorry.

Any other news modules you recommend? May try another.

[sdetweil]

@matthewlawson3 no idea… I just use the default, only cause its there…

[Matthewlawson3]

@sdetweil Okay. Thanks for trying to help! Much Appreciated.

[Matthewlawson3]

@sdetweil @cowboysdude I am beginning to think I have something wrong with my code or that there is something wrong with my instance of MM. I went back to the default news module and added BBC, USA Today, and Fox News to the list and all I see displaying are BBC headlines. Now when I comment out BBC, Fox News will show. Odd. Can you see if you can see anything in my code? I have no idea what is going on. It has been on for 10 minutes and never leaves BBC.

{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				maxNewsItems: 0,
				feeds: [
					{
					title: "New York Times",
					url: "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
					title: "USA Today",
					url: "http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories",
					title: "Fox News",
					url: "http://feeds.foxnews.com/foxnews/latest",
					title: "BBC",
					url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#"
					
	
				}
			],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true,
				broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
				broadcastNewsUpdates: true

			}
		},

[sdetweil]

@matthewlawson3 remember, it sorts them by published date… I will have to download the feeds and look at the dates

[Matthewlawson3]

@sdetweil so you think perhaps the BBC headlines are the latest?

I commented out the other news ticker we were discussing. Do you think it might be causing an issue? Should I uninstall?

[sdetweil]

@matthewlawson3 no idea

[sdetweil]

this module has a design problem…

a request to get the feed content is started async for each source… so in this case there are 4 fetches going on at once.

when A feed completes in the helper, it sends ALL feeds data (even if none yet) up to the module. (fastest wins)
then second finishes and IT sends up the complete list
and then third
and then forth.

and the useful list gets rebuilt over and over…
and it keeps a counter into the list for the next item, BUT the list could get replaced with a smaller number of entries and the code will die… (‘hang’)

so the item list gets redone over and over… and over…

[Matthewlawson3]

@sdetweil okay. That’s surprising considering it is the default news module for MM. I’ll find another option.

[sdetweil]

@matthewlawson3 it is not the default. it is an extra. I am talking about MMM-NewsFeedTicker