MMM-Pnews

DeanoAus

Not a problem - what about multiple sources?

cowboysdude

@DeanoAus said in MMM-Pnews:

Not a problem - what about multiple sources?

If you do this in the config.js ---->

//newsSource:,

It will return news from ALL sources that’s the best I can do at the moment.

I answered the multiple sources question above ;)

“I will look into the possibility of multiple sources but it will be a bit as this is my busiest time of year at work and I am swamped at the moment.”

cowboysdude

There may be a quickie fix I can do if you tell me what you’re looking for…
->>>>>

business, entertainment, gaming, general, music, politics, science-and-nature, sport or technology.

DeanoAus

Ah, so you did! :D I read that as you’ll look into multiple instances. It’s late. ;)

All good my friend. I’ve somehow killed my MM install after an update.

cowboysdude

@DeanoAus OH mannnnnnn I hate that… I just redid my bathroom mirror as I killed that one too … I feel your pain.

It’s late for you, I just woke up LOL So let me know if there is a specific category you’re looking for or just taking out the newsource will work for you because if you do that it will return ALL news. :)

Future implementation will be different languages: en, de, fr

DeanoAus

@cowboysdude said in MMM-Pnews:

There may be a quickie fix I can do if you tell me what you’re looking for…
->>>>>

business, entertainment, gaming, general, music, politics, science-and-nature, sport or technology.

Was after one tech, one Australian news. And seeing as I can’t reply before 120 seconds… sigh… i’ll combine my replies.

pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $ DISPLAY=:0 npm start

> magicmirror@2.1.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

run-start.sh: 4: run-start.sh: electron: not found

npm ERR! Linux 4.9.25-v7+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v6.10.2
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.1.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT

I’ve tried updating, installing, you name it.
npm install electron
npm install
etc. :/

cowboysdude

@DeanoAus said in MMM-Pnews:

electron: not found

electron is not installed… i had an issue as well so I just reinstalled the mirror… that fixed the electron issues.

DeanoAus

Ugh, I think i found it. You need to do npm install as root…

Wait, nope!

pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install

> electron@1.6.6 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/install.js:47
  throw err
  ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources'
    at Error (native)
npm ERR! Linux 4.9.25-v7+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v6.10.2
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! electron@1.6.6 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1

Ugh, I give up. Going to bed. Thanks for your help, i’ll fix in the morning. :)

cowboysdude

Good Night :)

DeanoAus

Hey mate, I think I have a bug for you. :bug:

In MMM-PNews.js you hard code in the sorting method (latest) for the source.

this.url = "https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=" + this.config.newsSource + "&sortBy=Latest&apiKey=";

Latest isn’t a valid sorting method for some sources.
Example is the https://newsapi.org/abc-news-au-api

If you hit that with the url they provide with Latest in there for sorting, it fails and gives

{"status":"error","code":"sourceUnavailableSortedBy","message":"The news source you've selected (abc-news-au) isn't available sorted by latest"}

But if you change Latest to Top in the url, works fine. :)

This is causing some feeds to not work.