pls help: how to force/refresh "External Compliment File"?

[rs]

Hello all,

I have a remote external file for the Compliment module which works very well, however, when the content of the external file changes the Compliment module doesn’t read the made changes only when restarting the mirror, my question is how to force and reload the external file content to the Compliment module without restarting the mirror?

Thanks much in advance!
Ram

[sdetweil]

@rs the default compliments module only reads the file at mm startup.

[rs]

@sdetweil said in pls help: how to force/refresh "External Compliment File"?:

@rs the default compliments module only reads the file at mm startup.

thank you for your reply!

well, that’s a bummer…

[swvalenti]

@rs to jump onto this I can’t get a remote file to work, how did you use yours?

[sdetweil]

@swvalenti see

sorry, meant this one

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6757/need-more-compliments-compliments-json/13?_=1632064035771

well, both

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6757/need-more-compliments-compliments-json/14?_=1632064035783

[rs]

@swvalenti

{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "middle_center",
			config: { 
				remoteFile: 'https://dl.dropbox.com/s/XXXXXXXXXXXX/mirror_messages.json'	}
		},

[sdetweil]

@rs for dropbox u need the shared link ( as no user is logged on to dropbox) and u need dl=1 (instead of 0) to enable direct download