Traffic Maps (Any recent users?)

awwbaker

Good Morning,
I am a recent MM builder. I have all the general stuff working along with a call to Home Assistant for presence data as well as getting my iCloud Events listed. Very happy.

The ONE thing I want most is a local traffic map, like Google has. I have tried the GoogleMapsTraffic and a couple of the TomTom modules. I am sure that I have correctly collected and implemented the required API keys correctly. But have not had success in making either work. I have not yet the experience to do any “real” debugging. I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of a recently used module that provides a traffic map.

Kindest regards, Anthony

sdetweil

@awwbaker what mapping trouble are you having?

awwbaker

@sdetweil thank you for the response. I have tried a couple of the TomTom map modules as well as Google Maps. The TomTomTrafficsIncidents module responds with square template and a frown in the upper right corner. Google gives me an “oops” logo. I noted it had been sometime since either module had been updated so wondered if something had changed on the back-end? That is why I was trying to find the latest modules. I am not yet experienced enough to trouble shoot into what the failure is in a particular module, but with the right push gladly jump in as deep as I can go. Thank you again!!! VR Anthony Baker

sdetweil

@awwbaker don’t know anything about the tomtom modules.

there are two places to look for debug info

in the output of npm start

if you are using pm2, then

pm2 logs --lines=xxxx

where xxxx is tye number of most recent lines to display, default 15

the second place is in the browser log
cttl-shift-i, then select the console tab, and put a unique part of the module name in the filter field

sdetweil

@awwbaker I put this on my system , and only had one problem

there is a syntax error in the sample, a missing trailing comma

 {
            module: 'MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic',
            position: 'top_right',
            config: {
                key: 'my key',
                lat: 37.8262306,
                lng: -122.2920096,
                height: '300px',
                width: '300px'   // <------  here 
                styledMapType: "transparent",
                disableDefaultUI: true,
                backgroundColor: 'hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0)',
                markers: [
                    {
                        lat: 37.8262316,
                        lng: -122.2920196,
                        fillColor: '#9966ff'
                    },
                ],
            },
        }

now, I DID you my fork of this module which fixed a couple problems, since the author has not updated in quite a while… I am still 3 changes up from that code…

https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic.git

awwbaker

Mr @sdetweil,
Thank you so much your help. Had put the module in the lower right. On your suggestion I saw a warning message for “this module cannot be in that location.” Not an exact quote, but that was the flavor. Moved the module to center bottom and GoogleMap version worked. Really cool, thank you. I too found the comma issue! Do you know the syntax to “update” a module versus installing fresh??? I am going to try the TomTomIncident module and see if that was a similiar issue. If useful I will report out here on findings. Again, thank you for yout time, be safe Anthony

sdetweil

@awwbaker to update a module that has changes is exactly like for MagicMirror

go to the module folder, and enter this command

git pull

then do
ls package.json

if you do NOT get an error, then do
npm install

awwbaker

@sdetweil Roger wico will give update a try…btw, installed and tested TomTomIncident module. That one is working too! Thank you! Anthony