MMM-Pnews

DeanoAus

Hey quick question, can’t seem to run two copies of this module at the same time. They both get the feed source from the first one?

DeanoAus

If you can’t, can you run multiple sources on the one module? I tried comma seperated, but that loaded neither of them.

cowboysdude

No it wasn’t setup to run multiple instances. The mirror was setup for finite space so the majority of the modules haven’t been built to allow that :)

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.

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.

DeanoAus

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DeanoAus

Also, mine doesn’t seem to be updating the feed. (Sorry!)

Seeing this in the log?
fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-PNews/’: GnuTLS recv error (-54): Error in the pull function.

cowboysdude

@DeanoAus said in MMM-Pnews:

sourceUnavailable

I’ve updated the url so that should fix that…

The other error is a git error … “: Error in the pull function”

DeanoAus

Awesome, thanks! :D

lucallmon

@cowboysdude Just installed this for the first time. Looks GREAT! However, it seems to take up a lot of space at the bottom bar; I am using a somewhat smaller screen. Is there a way I can limit the module to more of the center leaving space on both sides at the bottom for smaller modules? Also, I’d like to center the pic and text. It seems that it only aligns to the left. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

cowboysdude

@lucallmon I’ll take a look at it later when I get home :) We’ll see what we can do!

Johans

hi Cowboysdude,

I like your modules, nice work.
I was wondering if you could modify or make a separate module for the dutch (belgian) newsfeeds.
take a look at this side: http://feeds.nieuwsblad.be/nieuws/snelnieuws
they provide for each headline, a pircture and short description.
It would be nice if you could also incorparate this into the module.

Johan