Simple(?) module to send a notification every x minutes?

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger no position, as there is no UI…

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger I ran your config in debug ( npm start dev) with a stop on the actual sendNotification and it happens once every minute.

I don’t have pages or carousel installed…

[sdetweil]

@MMRIZE said in Simple(?) module to send a notification every x minutes?:

But sending notifications is harmless, so I put it into start, just for example.

not harmless to the receiver if not setup yet

[UncleRoger]

@sdetweil
I’ve no clue how to run it the way you did with the stop and all, but I did start commenting out modules and it seems that MMM-pages is the culprit.

Without it, SendNotification works fine but when it’s active, SendNotification sends multiple notifications per second:

It may be that MMM-pages is suspending and resuming MMM-SendNotification with each change, even though it’s set as “fixed”, and maybe that’s triggering it?

It may be that this is just something that won’t work for me.

I really appreciate your help!

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger ok, I’ll check it out… hang on…

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger ok… it was pages (for the error)

if you are using my fork

    cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Pages
    git pull 

if u are NOT using my fork

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules

then rename the MMM-Pages folder out of the way (the command is mv)
then

git clone https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-Pages

also, two parms need to be added

here is the updated config

			{
        module: 'MMM-Pages',
        config: {
                modules:
                    [[ "page1" ],
                     [ "page2" ],
                //     [ "page3"],
                    ],
                fixed: [ "fixed" ],
                hiddenPages: {
                    "screenSaver": [ "screensaver_page" ],
                    "admin": [ "admin_page" ],
                },
                animationTime: 10000,
                rotationTime: 10000,
        }
      }

rotationtime defaults to 0!!!

[UncleRoger]

@sdetweil
I switched to your fork and while it’s better, it’s still sending a notification every several seconds.
Here’s my config:

		{
			module: "MMM-Pages",
                        classes: "fixed",
			config:	{
				modules:[	[ "page1" ],
							[ "page2" ],
						],
				fixed: [ "fixed" ],
				rotationTime:	10000,
				animationTime:	10000,
			}
		},

and

        {
            module: 'MMM-SendNotification',
            classes: "fixed",
            config: {
                interval: 3600000, // 1 minute interval
                notification: 'PAGE_CHANGED',
                payload: 1,
            },
        },

(I upped the interval to see if that would do anything. It didn’t.)

I’ve commented out all the other modules except the clock, MMM-BackgroundSlideshow, and MMM-ViewNotifications.

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger ok, git pull the latest
and restart

I now check to see if the handler was turned off on resume, so don’t start another

lmk

[UncleRoger]

@sdetweil
That worked! Thank you so much!

Now I am just being cheeky but if you are bored and want to add a feature, it would be great to be able to reset the timer based on a notification. (In my case, if MMM-Keypress sends a PAGE_INCREMENT notification to change pages, restart the timer from that point.)

Anyway, I am getting really close to having everything the way I want it and am hoping that I can build an actual frame for the mirror and mount it next week and I couldn’t have done it without all your help (and so many others, like @MMRIZE and everyone who wrote the modules I’m using.) So, really, thank you!

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger done, git pull to update

if the notification received matches the configured notification restart the timer