Poemoftheday module showing black screen

[e199504]

I have installed the module MMM-PoemOfTheDay,
As instructed I added the following to the config file.

modules: [
  {
    module: "MMM-PoemOfTheDay",
    position: "lower_third",
    config: {
      textLimit: 1000,
      lineLimit: 10,
      detectLanguageApiKey: "{API_KEY}",
      languageSet: ["en", "es"],
      updateInterval: 120000
    }
  }.
]

Upon running the magic mirror, I only get a black screen.

Did someone experience the same problem ?

[sdetweil]

@e199504 said in Poemoftheday module showing black screen:

}.

is that a period?

not in JavaScript. remove that

[e199504]

@sdetweil I removed the dot. This time I am getting the error that I need to check my config file.

When I runnpm run config:check, I am getting the following error

[13.05.2021 15:06.26.058] [INFO]  Checking file...  /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
[13.05.2021 15:06.26.130] [ERROR] Your configuration file contains syntax errors :(
[13.05.2021 15:06.26.133] [ERROR] Line 56 column 3: Parsing error: Unexpected token {

This is a snippet of my config file

[sdetweil]

@e199504 said in Poemoftheday module showing black screen:

Line 56 column 3: Parsing error: Unexpected token {

so, that means the line before it contains an error…

USUALLY unexpected token means the line before is missing a trailing comma

	{ 
     		module:"......",
     	}       /// this line, should say, MORE to FOLLOW   , <--- comma
     	{
     		module:"ppppp",
     	}

[e199504]

@sdetweil I copied again the array to add in the config file from the Poemoftheday

here is the snippet of my config file

// false, default for all NON-armv6l devices
	// true, force serveronly mode, because you want to.. no UI on this device

	modules: [
		{
			module: "alert",
		},
  		{
    			module: "MMM-PoemOfTheDay",
    			position: "upper_third",
    			config: {
      				textLimit: 1000,
      				lineLimit: 10,
      				detectLanguageApiKey: "{API_KEY}",
      				languageSet: ["en", "es"],
      				updateInterval: 120000
    			}
  		},
		{
 			module: "MMM-Breathwork",
  			position: "bottom_right",
		},

[sdetweil]

@e199504 that should be ok… did config:check find anything?

also, did you do the npm install in the module folder after git clone?

what do the messages say where u start MM?

npm start or pm2
if using pm2 then

pm2 logs --lines=100 

should show them

[Ortega65]

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