MMM-News and BBC

DarrenHill

Thanks gents. Nice to know support is still there.

It was working a while back (several weeks) then it started showing images with #null and no other text, and now it doesn’t show anything in the area assigned to it.

In mm-error.log after a reboot, all I see is this:

[06.09.2022 20:13.58.974] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[06.09.2022 20:13.58.990] [ERROR] Error: listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 0.0.0.0:8080
    at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (node:net:1330:16)
    at listenInCluster (node:net:1378:12)
    at doListen (node:net:1516:7)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:84:21) {
  code: 'EADDRINUSE',
  errno: -98,
  syscall: 'listen',
  address: '0.0.0.0',
  port: 8080
}
[06.09.2022 20:13.58.992] [ERROR] MagicMirror² will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[06.09.2022 20:13.58.993] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
[29786:0906/201403.366075:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(186)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
[29882:0906/201403.754866:ERROR:gpu_memory_buffer_support_x11.cc(44)] dri3 extension not supported.
[29803:0906/201403.845480:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(126)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuControl.CreateCommandBuffer.

(I renamed the log file and started a fresh log file with a reboot, as the old one is large and full of stuff).

The mirror has a static IP address which hasn’t changed, and I haven’t knowingly changed anything in the config, at least since the problem arose.

Can you remind me how to access the console?

sdetweil

@DarrenHill alt-spacebar, n

MagicMirror is the app created by my install

mm is the one created by following the manual instructions.

pm2 stop all
will stop everything

pm2 info 0 (or name) will dump out the info about what is to be run…
for MagicMirror it is /home/pi/MagicMirror/I stallers/mm.sh

to delete an entry

pm2 delete 0( or 1 or a name)
then pm2 save to update the pm2 startup cache

pm2 --help, like most Linux commands will tell you all the things it can do

DarrenHill

@sdetweil Thanks - I just found the wiki page about auto starting and saw I had somehow got it running twice.

That’s now fixed, but after a reboot the module issue still remains.

I’ll go check logs and console now.

DarrenHill

@sdetweil OK I’ve found a News module error in the MagicMirror-out.log:

[06.09.2022 20:26.46.502] [LOG]   [NEWS] Error :  https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=bbc-news&pageSize=100&apiKey=<redacted> TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'toString')

    at slugify (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-News/node_helper.js:24:17)
    at cb (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-News/node_helper.js:89:33)
    at getArticles (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-News/node_helper.js:135:22)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

I’ve removed my API key string, but the rest is copy/paste.

I tried a git pull on the module the other day before my first post here, and it’s up to date.

sdetweil

@DarrenHill that error means the content back from the API is not as expected. either nothing there or the format changed.

DarrenHill

@sdetweil OK, although from what @mumblebaj posted above it still works for him with my config?

I’ll try removing it and reinstalling it and see if that helps.

sdetweil

@DarrenHill not a reinstall thing

DarrenHill

@sdetweil OK.

So I guess I’m stuck for now unless you or the others have any suggestions.

I was wondering as you say if the incoming info format had changed when it started throwing the #null text, but it’s weird that it works for others?

MMRIZE

@DarrenHill
Well, I also tried your config with my apiKey and it worked.

Try this in your browser and let’s see what happens.

https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources=bbc-news&pageSize=100&apiKey=YOUR_KEY

sdetweil

@DarrenHill ediut node_helper.js

insert this line

      console.log("fetch result=",result)

after line 128 so it looks like this

      var result = await response.json()
      console.log("fetch result=",result)
      return(result)

then rerun MM… best to stop using pm2 for all this

pm2 stop all

then

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile.txt 2>&1

wait 15 seconds

ctrl-m to minimize MM
then ctrl-c on the terminal window you use to start MM

then edit somefile.txt

to look for status:
(ctrl-w in nano)

this is another dumb api… there is an error , but it doesn’t return it in the return code, but in the data!!!.. stupid…

for mine it says (with a bad key)

[06.09.2022 14:56.29.138] [LOG]   fetch result= {
  status: 'error',
  code: 'apiKeyInvalid',
  message: 'Your API key is invalid or incorrect. Check your key, or go to https://newsapi.org to create a free API key.'
}