SOLVED MMM-Facial-Recognition cannot sendSocketNotification()

[stanchan]

Hi,

I’m trying to get the troubleshoot the MMM-Facial-Recognition module, and I have narrowed it down to the node_helper not being able to sendSocketNotification().

I added a line to socketNotifcationRecieved() within the node_helper.js file to test this.

  // Subclass socketNotificationReceived received.
  socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) {
    if(notification === 'CONFIG') {
      this.config = payload
      if(!pythonStarted) {
        pythonStarted = true;
// I ADDED THE FOLLOWING LINE:
        this.sendSocketNotification("Test", "sendSocketNotification to module");
        this.python_start();
        };
    };
  },

and then I also added a console.log to the MMM-Facial-Recognition.js to print out any received socket Notifications.

	socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) {

		//For testing purposes
		console.log(notification)

However, nothing prints out in the console.

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I am troubleshooting this, because even though the module recognizes my face and logs me in, no alert comes up on the mirror and none of the modules update.

Note: The module itself is able to sendSocketNotification to the node_helper because the python_shell does start and the recognition python script runs with the correct configuration.

Thank you in advance for your help.

[stanchan]

UPDATE: This, like some other issues I was running into was actually caused by the application freezing when it could not load ‘css/custom.css’.

This is because the .gitignore does not track custom.css and I, like many others, edit my code on my desktop and then push the changes via git to my RPi.