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      MatthewCowell last edited by

      I am having some issues with the config.js file. When I turn on my pi and the Mirror client loads it tells me to create a config file. Here is the the file (with a few things removed):

      /* Magic Mirror Config Sample
       *
       * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
       * MIT Licensed.
       */
      
      var config = {
      	port: 8080,
      
      	language: 'en',
      	timeFormat: 24,
      	units: 'metric',
      
      	modules: [
      		{
      			module: 'alert'
      		},
      		{
      			module: "updatenotification",
      			position: "top_bar"
      		},
      		{
      			module: 'clock',
      			position: 'top_left'
      		},
      		{
      			module: 'calendar',
      			header: 'US Holidays',
      			position: 'top_left',
      			config: {
      				calendars: [
      					{
      						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
      						url: 'webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics'
      					}
      				]
      			}
      		},
      		{
      			module: 'compliments',
      			position: 'lower_third'
      		},
      		{
      			module: 'currentweather',
      			position: 'top_right',
      			config: {
      				location: 'Bolton',
      				locationID: '2655237'
      			}
      		},
      		{
      			module: 'weatherforecast',
      			position: 'top_right',
      			header: 'Weather Forecast',
      			config: {
      				location: 'Bolton',
      				locationID: '2655237'```
      			}
      		},
      		{
      			module: 'newsfeed',
      			position: 'bottom_bar',
      			config: {
      				feeds: [
      					{
      						title: "New York Times",
      						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
      					},	//
      				],
      				showSourceTitle: true,
      				showPublishDate: true
      			}
      		}
      	]
      
      };
      
      /*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
      if (typeof module !== 'undefined') {module.exports = config;}
      

      Please tell me if you find any errors in the code. I can’t find anything online that works.

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      • strawberry 3.141
        strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @MatthewCowell last edited by

        @MatthewCowell

        locationID: '2655237'```
        

        remove the backticks

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          MatthewCowell @strawberry 3.141 last edited by

          @strawberry-3.141 I have removed them but it still doesn’t work. Thank you for helping

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          • strawberry 3.141
            strawberry 3.141 Project Sponsor Module Developer @MatthewCowell last edited by

            @MatthewCowell does maybe the removed part you mentioned has syntax errors? you can check it yourself on jshint.com.

            is your file called config.js?

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            • cowboysdude
              cowboysdude Project Sponsor Module Developer last edited by cowboysdude

              This is also wrong:

              {
              						title: "New York Times",
              						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
              					},	//
              

              Take out the // it’s negating the next bracket…

              /* Magic Mirror Config Sample
               *
               * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
               * MIT Licensed.
               */
              var config = {
                      port: 8080,
              
                      language: 'en',
                      timeFormat: 24,
                      units: 'metric',
              
                      modules: [{
                                  module: 'alert'
                              },
                              {
                                  module: "updatenotification",
                                  position: "top_bar"
                              },
                              {
                                  module: 'clock',
                                  position: 'top_left'
                              },
                              {
                                  module: 'calendar',
                                  header: 'US Holidays',
                                  position: 'top_left',
                                  config: {
                                      calendars: [{
                                          symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
                                          url: 'webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics'
                                      }]
                                  }
                              },
                              {
                                  module: 'compliments',
                                  position: 'lower_third'
                              },
                              {
                                  module: 'currentweather',
                                  position: 'top_right',
                                  config: {
                                      location: 'Bolton',
                                      locationID: '2655237'
                                  }
                              },
                              {
                                  module: 'weatherforecast',
                                  position: 'top_right',
                                  header: 'Weather Forecast',
                                  config: {
                                      location: 'Bolton',
                                      locationID: '2655237'
                                      ``
                                      `
              			}
              		},
              		{
              			module: 'newsfeed',
              			position: 'bottom_bar',
              			config: {
              				feeds: [
              					{
              						title: "New York Times",
              						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
              					},	
              				],
              				showSourceTitle: true,
              				showPublishDate: true
              			}
              		}
              	]
              
              };
              
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                MatthewCowell @cowboysdude last edited by

                @cowboysdude Still not working. Thank you for the help!

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                • cowboysdude
                  cowboysdude Project Sponsor Module Developer last edited by cowboysdude

                  Try this: the last one I took out the // but didn’t take out the extra ‘’ strawberry suggested you take out… this one should be working.

                  /* Magic Mirror Config Sample
                   *
                   * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
                   * MIT Licensed.
                   */
                  
                  var config = {
                  	port: 8080,
                  	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"],
                  
                  	language: 'en',
                  	timeFormat: 12,
                  	units: 'imperial',
                  
                  	modules: [
                  		{
                  			module: 'alert',
                  		},
                  		{
                                      module: "updatenotification",
                                      position: "top_bar"
                                  },
                                  {
                                      module: 'clock',
                                      position: 'top_left'
                                  },
                                   {
                                      module: 'calendar',
                                      header: 'US Holidays',
                                      position: 'top_left',
                                      config: {
                                          calendars: [{
                                              symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
                                              url: 'webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics'
                                          }]
                                      }
                                  },
                                  {
                                      module: 'compliments',
                                      position: 'lower_third'
                                  },
                                   {
                                      module: 'weatherforecast',
                                      position: 'top_right',
                                      header: 'Weather Forecast',
                                      config: {
                                          location: 'Bolton',
                                          locationID: '2655237'
                  			}
                  		},
                                  {
                                      module: 'currentweather',
                                      position: 'top_right',
                                      config: {
                                          location: 'Bolton',
                                          locationID: '2655237'
                                      }
                                  },
                                  {
                  			module: 'newsfeed',
                  			position: 'bottom_bar',
                  			config: {
                  				feeds: [
                  					{
                  						title: "New York Times",
                  						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
                  					},	
                  				],
                  				showSourceTitle: true,
                  				showPublishDate: true
                  			}
                  		},
                  		
                  	]
                  
                  };
                  
                  /*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
                  if (typeof module !== 'undefined') {module.exports = config;}
                  
                  
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                    MatthewCowell @cowboysdude last edited by

                    @cowboysdude I still can’t get it to work. Ill try reinstalling NOOBS and magicmirror and see if it gets any better

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                    • cowboysdude
                      cowboysdude Project Sponsor Module Developer @MatthewCowell last edited by cowboysdude

                      @MatthewCowell I ran it through a validator and it said no issues and I can’t find any …

                      Why are you using Noobs? I would install this:

                      https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

                      When you restart copy your sample config js file to config.js and just make sure it starts…

                      Once you do that do not delete your sample config file as that is your temp backup…

                      Once you get it working and you add a module and it works then back up your config.js to something like config.bak that way you always have a working backup…

                      in terminal window:

                      cd ~MagicMirror/config
                      then
                      cp config.js config.bak

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