Newsfeeder is going way to fast when showing news

[fribse]

I’ve set up the delay to 30000, so it should take it’s time between rolling the news.
It’s the original news module, with an added QR code module.
It fetches news from some RSS feeds.
I’ve tried rebooting the pi, and also just restarting MM.
It has about 12 GB available space, so that’s not the problem.
What on earth is suddenly going on? This has worked for at least a year?
Everything is fully updated on the modules and core.

[sdetweil]

@fribse can u show the config for newsreader?

[mumblebaj]

@sdetweil I saw the same behavior yesterday. It scrolls through almost immediately even though my updateInterval is set to 40 seconds.

                            showSourceTitle: true,
                            showPublishDate: true,
                            broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
                            broadcastNewsUpdates: true,
                            showDescription: true,
                            updateInterval: 40 * 1000,
                            reloadInterval: 60 * 60 * 1000

Will check it on my dev machine now as well.

[sek_is_back]

i can confirm this, same on my side

				feeds: [
					{
						title: "Tagesschau",
						url: "http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/rss2"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: false,
				showDescription: true,
				ignoreOldItems: true,
				ignoreOlderThan: 86400000,
				updateInterval: 18000,
				showPublishDate: false

[sdetweil]

@mumblebaj @sek_is_back @fribse the animationSpeed config option is defaulted to 2.5 seconds. (2500 ms)

[fribse]

@sdetweil Interesting

My config looks like this

{
      module: "newsfeed",
      position: "bottom_bar",
      classes: "day_schedule",
      config: {
        feeds: [
          {
            title: "Ekstra Bladet",
            url: "https://ekstrabladet.dk/rssfeed/all/"
          },
          {
            title: "DR nyheder",
            url: "https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/service/feeds/allenyheder"
          },
          {
            title: "BT",
            url: "https://www.bt.dk/bt/seneste/rss"
          },
          {
            title: "Berlingske.dk",
            url: "https://www.berlingske.dk/content/3/rss"
          },
          {
            title: "TV2 Øst",
            url: "https://www.tv2east.dk/rss"
          }
        ],
        updateInterval: 30000,
        showSourceTitle: true,
        showPublishDate: true,
        broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
        broadcastNewsUpdates: true
      }
    },

And it hasn’t changed for years.
animationSpeed, isn’t that for the transition?
That’s not what’s happening here, it goes through all the news in a minute or so.

[mumblebaj]

@sdetweil I think there may be an issue though. The MagicMirror Documentation says the following:

The newsfeed module is one of the default modules of the MagicMirror. This module displays news headlines based on an RSS feed. Scrolling through news headlines happens time-based (updateInterval), but can also be controlled by sending news feed specific notifications to the module.

The animationSpeed - Speed of the update animation. Which to me means that the time the news items go from one to the other.

However, the news items scroll through and seem to be ignoring the updateInterval setting, almost like it is using the default animationSpeed as the updateInterval.

That being said, on my laptop it seems to be behaving fine. I swopped this out on my PI for my MMM-NewsAPI module but before I did it was definitely scrolling through and ignoring the updateInterval.

The code seems to fine as it references the updateInterval:

    scheduleUpdateInterval: function () {
            this.updateDom(this.config.animationSpeed);

            // Broadcast NewsFeed if needed
            if (this.config.broadcastNewsFeeds) {
                    this.sendNotification("NEWS_FEED", { items: this.newsItems });
            }

            this.timer = setInterval(() => {
                    this.activeItem++;
                    this.updateDom(this.config.animationSpeed);

                    // Broadcast NewsFeed if needed
                    if (this.config.broadcastNewsFeeds) {
                            this.sendNotification("NEWS_FEED", { items: this.newsItems });
                    }
            }, this.config.updateInterval);
    },

[sdetweil]

@fribse could you do a quick test for me.

open the developers window, sources tab,
in the left nav,
expand modules, default, newsfeed,
select the newsfeed.js
source will appear on right window

scroll the source down, til line 298 is in view, and click the line number so it looks like this

then hit f5 (will reload MM)

and it will stop at line 298

then use you mouse to hover over the this.config.updateInterval

like this

and then tell me what node/npm version u are using

u can do the debug using chrome, firefox or edge on your pc, if u have address:“0.0.0.0” and ipWhitelist:[] set in the mm config on the pi.

[fribse]

Like this:

?

pi@bathmirror:~ $ npm --version
7.6.3

[sdetweil]

@fribse yes, thanks… so its got the right number for interval.

[fribse]

@sdetweil Currently it shows the news in a proper speed, not sure what starts the problem?

[sek_is_back]

i got exact the same strange behavior. one day after my last post, the newsfeed worked like expected for 2 weeks. today the updateInterval seems to be ignored.
After a pm2 restart everything is fine again.

Now i wrote a cron to restart the Mirror every Night at 2am. will see if this will help.

[Jalibu]

I can confirm this error. Same on my MagicMirror:
It worked for weeks and then out of a sudden the speed changed to turbo-mode during runtime

[Fozi]

Same here. This behaviour started about 2 weeks ago. Some times the feeds cycle as expected, but then all of a sudden they rush through.

[fribse]

Yup, I saw it again this morning, odd.

[fribse]

@sdetweil Ok, I finally got it tested again.
If I go to my computer and open the webpage via remote it shows the right interval (this was what I did earlier), and the news cycles slowly as it should.
But on the raspberry pi, it still races through the news.
I haven’t restarted the Rpi just to keep the problem, but for me it’s not an easy test on the RPi itself, as the RPi is of course behind the mirror and headless.

[Jalibu]

I assume that for some reason some intervals are going crazy during runtime. The problem is gone, if you refresh the page, but it may come again after an uncertain time.

[sek_is_back]

As a workaround, till a solution is found

crontab -e
@daily sudo reboot

this will reboot the pi every night at 00:00 am.

[Jalibu]

@sdetweil I opened a Github issue for that: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/2638

[OberfragGER]

I got the same issue since 2.16.
I have one image from 2.15 - no problem so far!

The strange thing… first after boot. It working some time like i should… Later… you see the news flashing… so the mirror is mostly black then.

Im using also MM-Pages tho flip to another page every minute.