MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs

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

Matthewlawson3

@sdetweil Oh okay. The last code I posted is actually from the default news module, not the news ticker I was working on.

I was trying the default one and it keeps repeating the same source over and over as well. It doesn’t go on to any of the other sources. It just repeats BBC for 10 minutes.

I switched out BBC and added in a CNET RSS feed and it hangs on CNET now.

Just for the heck of it I removed the code and module of the NewsTicker we have been discussing since the beginning of this post. Didn’t have any effect either.

Matthewlawson3

@sdetweil Edit: I believe I got the default news module to work. I apparently was missing some brackets around some of the source urls and that I think made the module not see the other sources.