Are you tired of editing config.js, or have trouble doing it, see my new module

[Alyx]

amazing work!!! are users able to make module communicate with each other? Such as using voice commands to use another module via notifications?

[sdetweil]

@alyx I don’t understand your question

[sdetweil]

@dinschal is this from the qr?

or did u enter a url?

note the url is

http://mmipaddr:mmport/modules/MMM-Config/review

[sdetweil]

@alyx voiceCommander is built on top of MMM-Voice and Hello-Lucy

so, CAN you, certainly… take a voice audio -> recognizer -> send notification to other modules…

HOW depends on the module being used…

sometimes there is some config
sometimes there is file editing
sometimes there is coding

[Alyx]

@sdetweil No worries I’ll install and play around with this tomorrow, I was wondering if it would help with setting up modules to talk to each other, as you know I’ve been having a few issues with that xD

[sdetweil]

@alyx My Module ONLY addresses configuration of EACH module (stuff that goes in config.js)

what that stuff DOES/MEANS, my module does not know…

I read the source code to figure out the variables defined
and merge that with any info from config.js

and build a form to collect the data

then on save, I take the elements with data and build a new config.js
(rename the old and write the new)
and if restart , then I restart MM to use that new config

[Alyx]

@sdetweil Sounds great as is Sam cant wait to try it tomorrow!

[Dinschal]

@sdetweil ah okay i used the wrong one… i used the one with config.html

[Dinschal]

Is it possible to add a css section in the future? that would be really nice…

thanks for your work and thanks for helping me ;)

[Dinschal]

@sdetweil your module is running well, but if i changed something and create the config, it deleted the location, the locationid and the weather api from the default weather module :( this is really bad… and if i change the timefomat and the analog size in the same module and push the save, create config button it didnt save the canges.

[sdetweil]

@dinschal what do u mean css section?

[Dinschal]

@sdetweil first off all good morning ;)

a section where you can edit the css sections of the modules… like the size or something else…

[sdetweil]

@dinschal did u set the position in the positions section?

can u add debug:true to my module config

copy back the prior config.js

start mm like this

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile.txt

then do the change again
press save

then stop mm (ctrl-q)
and send me the somefile.txt
and the two config file, prior and new
and the defaults.js from the module folder
via email. my email is this same userid at gmail

u will have to rename the .js files to
like .txt as js files are not allowed

[sdetweil]

@dinschal ah, I think that would be very difficult.

unless it was a text box w the same thing u would put in custom.css

[sdetweil]

@sdetweil one thing on position.

I write them out in the same order by
position:

all the top_left together, then the top_right, etc
using the module position order value, u can adjust the order of a module in a position list
( I add order: to the module info, so I can continue to keep them that way)

as mm shows them that way

they may NOT be in the same location( line number) in the new file

[Dinschal]

@sdetweil you got mail ;)

[sdetweil]

@dinschal I replied

[Dinschal]

@sdetweil yeah i have to search the right one :D

[Alyx]

Hi Sam,

I installed this just there on a fresh image and MM install. All good except my web-view is blank. Well the title comes up with the light brown background but there’s no content beyond that.

Do I need to begin installing other modules in tandem with this?

[sdetweil]

@alyx no… should work as is for the defaults…

let me look