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    Help, I need to send data to the module I am trying to create

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      kylelamb1324
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      I am new to javascript so this project that I am working on is proving more difficult than anticipated.

      I am creating a module to monitor our schools bus routes and display them onto the screen. I have the webscraping working fine in a javascript file that returns a 2x2 array of bus times for each route and stop. but need to implement it into the magic mirror.

      to my understanding in order to do this I need a node_helper.js file to scrape the data and send it using sendSocketNotification. Is this right? Im not sure how this function works, if anyone has some insight it would be greatly appreciated
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        sdetweil @kylelamb1324
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        @kylelamb1324 see my sample module
        it’s node helper receives a message and sends one back
        https://github.com/sdetweil/SampleModule

        its
        string identifying the message
        and some buffer of data,
        completely up to you, string, number, structure…

        then on the receiving side u get the identifier, so you can tell different messages apart
        and a pointer to the buffer sent by the sender

        socket notifications are private to your module

        an example use

        the node_helper does not get any of the info from config.js like the modulename.js does

        so, typically the first thing would be to send the this.config buffer to the node_helper

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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