MMM-weconnectid with 2 accounts

chrisfr1976

We have two electric VW and two we-connect accounts. So I‘ve tried to get another instance running on my mirror, but it does not work. If I set a module on disable=true and the other on false in the config.js I can decide which car we can see.

So I made a workaround today with two config files which are copied in a circle and the refresh of electron is done with xdotool. All that is in a shell script which starts every 10 minutes with a cronjob. A quite dirty way, but we can see the battery status of both cars one after another :)

Has anyone found a smarter way? I also tried to do a refresh only on the MMM-weconnectid module but my coding skills are still not the best to include updateDOM or whatever to the js or json. I‘ve found a lot hits with Google and some into this direction in this forum the but nothing was explained in a simple way.
Does someone know a command to convice electron to reload just a specific module? Could be so easy from my newbie point of view 😉

Cheers, Chris

sdetweil

@chrisfr1976 ok, fixed

the author has accepted these fixes too

do this

git checkout main
git pull

the SoC value was not copied… don’t know where that went as I didn’t change that block. anyhow fixed

images, I made a sub folder by module instance… these should be correct now

sdetweil

@chrisfr1976 the other approach is to copy and rename the module. and change the register to match

if u can wait til tomorrow, I will update the module to support multiple instances

chrisfr1976

@sdetweil Wow, sure I can wait. But I’m already excited :-)

sdetweil

@chrisfr1976 try this

cd to the module folder

git fetch origin pull/6/head:test_multi
git checkout test_multi

then in config.js you can use multiple instances of this module with different config settings…

to go back to the old code if there is a problem

git checkout main

I don’t have a vehicle so I cant test it. no code logic was changed.

I submitted this as a change request to the module author…
if he accepts it, you would (in the module folder)

git checkout main
git pull

chrisfr1976

@sdetweil unfortunately it works just a little.

My Mirror Display

I can see two modules the first time on my screen but I can’t see the SoC and the loaded pictures shows the same car. That is clear for me when I check the module.js file. But 2 different cars are loaded what can be seen on the run kilometers.

So your approach works in general to show the module twice. Thank you for that. That might be helpful for other modules, too.
But to get the MMM-weconnectid fully working there needs to be some more coding in the module.js to be done. Python grabs the information I think since I see no errors or strange things in the log.
Unfortunately I’m a mechanical engineer who just starts with some very simple coding. I can’t fix that.

But again thanks a lot for your support and time you’ve spent!

Chris.

sdetweil

@chrisfr1976 each module 1 at a time works ok?

what is soc? state of charge?

sdetweil

@chrisfr1976 yes I see the issue. give me a little time.

sdetweil

@chrisfr1976 bug, sorry, he accepted code, but its broken

do this

git checkout main
git fetch origin pull/7/head:test_multi-2
git checkout test_multi-2

then try again

sdetweil

@chrisfr1976 said in MMM-weconnectid with 2 accounts:

So your approach works in general to show the module twice.

not mine. it’s the official way to support multiple instances.

sdetweil

@chrisfr1976 he has accepted that last pull request, so

git checkout main
git pull

try again