Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Troubleshooting Positions
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I am very much a newbie at this. I have been attempting just to start with defaults. I have dug and dug through the configuration files and JS and I am missing something. When I attempt to NPM Run start I get an error message for every position listed in the defaultModules except for the position “fullscreen_below”. When I am running the test I get;
[ERROR] This module configuration contains errors:
{
“module”: “updatenotification”,
“position”: “top_bar”
}
position: must be equal to one of the allowed values“fullscreen_below”
I am not able to change the array in the positions.js file as it’s updated by a config file. What am I missing? Any help with this would be great, as I am able to mess with the different modules to learn as I go as long as I am using that single position.
These are the positions I am attempting to use but failing> [“top_bar”, “top_left”, “top_center”, “top_right”, “upper_third”, “middle_center”, “lower_third”, “bottom_left”, “bottom_center”, “bottom_right”, “bottom_bar”, “fullscreen_above”, “fullscreen_below”];
All of which are defined by class in the CSS properly, as far as I can tell.
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@roaminMirror if you look at the messages from npm start you should see an error maybe
one of the ideas was to make the positions extendable/customizable…
currently you have to edit 5 files.SO, I added code to read the index.html file, which has the positions/regions used defined, in the server side where I can read a file
BUT I need to pass that info to the browser side code that checks it…
SO, I WRITE the list of positions to a file js/positions.jssomeone else reported that they got a permission denied on this write…
(cause they had used sudo to install MM… oops)
it also fails on synology nas drives under docker, if the storage is created by a synology user , and accessed from the docker user(1000)you can erase that file, js/positions.js
and it will be recreatedI added a new message to the next release about this permissions problem, instead of crashing
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@roaminMirror Thank you for your reply. What are the 5 files that I will need to edit to have the positions be recoginized and allowed in the positions.js file? I found that editing it manually it will, as you mentioned, recreate itself in the original manner. I am assuming it is gathering it’s array from another location butI am not sure what file is creating that positions.js file with this const modulePositions=[“fullscreen_below”]e with the array .
The only position that is working is Fullscreen_Below for some reason. Sorry I am just not understanding.
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@roaminMirror can you show me ~/MagicMirror/index.html
that is the file i read for the regionsit should not be changed unless you ate adding new regions
also post the contents of ~/MagicMirror/js/positions.js
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@roaminMirror see the doc on module position
see the note
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I haven’t made any changes to the index.html file. The config.js is unchanged as well as the positions.js file.
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>MagicMirror²</title> <meta name="google" content="notranslate" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" /> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" /> <meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <link rel="icon" href="data:;base64,iVBORw0KGgo=" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="fonts/roboto.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vendor/node_modules/animate.css/animate.min.css" /> <!-- custom.css is loaded by the loader.js to make sure it's loaded after the module css files. --> <script type="text/javascript"> window.mmVersion = "#VERSION#"; </script> </head> <body> <div class="region fullscreen below"><div class="container"></div></div> <div class="region top bar"> <div class="container"></div> <div class="top_bar"><div class="container"></div></div> <div class="region top center"><div class="container"><clock /></div></div> <div class="region top right"><div class="container"></div></div> </div> <div class="region upper third"><div class="container"></div></div> <div class="region middle center"><div class="container"></div></div> <div class="region lower third"> <div class="container"><br /></div> </div> <div class="region bottom bar"> <div class="container"></div> <div class="region bottom left"><div class="container"></div></div> <div class="region bottom center"><div class="container"></div></div> <div class="region bottom right"><div class="container"></div></div> </div> <div class="region fullscreen above"><div class="container"></div></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="socket.io/socket.io.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="vendor/node_modules/nunjucks/browser/nunjucks.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/defaults.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="#CONFIG_FILE#"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="vendor/vendor.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="modules/default/defaultmodules.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="modules/default/utils.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/logger.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="translations/translations.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/translator.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/class.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/module.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/loader.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/socketclient.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/animateCSS.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/positions.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/main.js"></script> </body> </html>  -
@roaminMirror cant attach files, only their text as a paste
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@roaminMirror are you running on Windows?
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Yes I am running on windows for the time being until I am ready to move it to a RPI.
The positions.js file is
const modulePositions=["fullscreen_below"]If I attempt to change it and then start the server with npm run start it will revert back to the above code.
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@roaminMirror interesting… I don’t see this problem on windows…
anyhow
edit js/utils.js
at the end is the functiongetModulePositions () { // if not already discovered if (modulePositions.length === 0) { // get the lines of the index.html const lines = fs.readFileSync(indexFileName).toString().split(os.EOL);change that last line to
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@roaminMirror I was able to recreate this on windows…
opened issue #3662 and submitted fix #3663
change to ‘\n’ as I proposed -
That was what was needed! Thank you for helping out with that!
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R roaminMirror has marked this topic as solved on
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@roaminMirror great… fixed in next release (Wednesday)
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