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

[MMRIZE]

@sdetweil
Yup. You are right.
Just little things;

• Generally, you are right. After ALL_MODULES_STARTED notification, it would be better to start communication. But sending notifications is harmless, so I put it into start, just for example.
• Personally, I prefer loop of timeout than normal interval. But interval would be more obvious.

[UncleRoger]

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

https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-SendNotification

Thank you so much! That got a lot farther than I ever did. When it gets to the point of actually sending the notification, however, I see an error in the browser console:

sendNotification: Notification should be a string.

As far as I can tell, the notification (this.config.notification) is a string. Is there something else that I can do to force it to be considered a string?

Note: the only change I made was to add a bunch of console.log messages so I could try to understand what was going on and then, when I saw that error, commented out the sendnotification line (which made the error disappear). When I uncommented it, the error came back.

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger do a git pull in the module folder… just posted a fix

[UncleRoger]

@sdetweil
Got the new version (typo in “notification”?) and it seems to work except that it ignores the interval and just constantly sends the notification.

Also, there’s an error showing in the console log:

Parameter mismatch in module.show: callback is not an optional parameter! 3 module.js:394:8

with different numbers. I’m not sure that’s a problem (MMM-BackgroundSlideshow has the same error and it works fine) but I thought I’d mention it.

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger can u post the module config

[UncleRoger]

@sdetweil
This is what I have:

{
  module: 'MMM-SendNotification',
  position: 'top_right',
  classes: "fixed",
  config: {
    interval: 60000, // 1 minute interval
    notification: 'PAGE_CHANGED',
    payload: 1,
  },
},

Thank you for your patience and assistance! You are amazing!

[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!