MMM-Pnews

DeanoAus

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.