MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call

xIExodusIx

Hi Ralf,
sorry it took a while to answer, what I did until now is:
I updated python on my raspberry pi 4 bookworm 64bit, to python 3.13.2 and I overworked the module MMM-FRITZ-Box Callmonitor-py3, it now handles almost all unwanted (blocked) calls, that are in your FritzBox callist for blocked calls, and shows them in the callist on your MM2.
But it can’t handle blocked numbers that are in the “area list”, that means numbers that begins with e.g. 0031* (+31*) all numbers from, in this example, Netherlands, they appear as “SIP:ownnumber” with a red X in the callist of your MM2. I can’t find out how to fetch the whole correct number that ist displayed in the FritzBox gui under incomming calls.
And I can’t find out how to let the alert “Incomming Call” disappear for that blocked calls.
Everything else should work as expected, for me it does.

Regards,
Carsten

rkorell

@xIExodusIx
Carsten, as you stated, you cannot code - than this is really awsome!!!
Congratulations.
Did you maanage as well to let the message box disappear whan call is in progress?

Do you have pushed your modified code to github?

To my last posting: In fact there is NO occurance of “py3_drtorchwood” in ANY of my files …
So I will simply ignore the error message.

Warmest regards and chapeau !!!

Ralf

xIExodusIx

@rkorell

Hi Ralf,
Yes the message box disappears now when a call is in progress, and no I did not push my modificated code to github by now.
But sadly I can’t find out how to let the massage box disapper when a call is incomming that will be blocked. So the message box is displayed over hours on the screen, to let it disappear I have to connect to my MM2 using “RealVNC Viewer” and mouseclick on the message box, then it disappears. This is not satisfying.

With the update of python to version 3.13.2 I made a failure, that was not a good idea, so I have to reinstall my MM2 from scratch, what I’m doing right now. If this is done and all runs like I want again, I will push my modified code to githup. If this is done I will inform you.

I will continue to work on the module to eliminate the last few problems. I hope I can do it.

As I said I can’t code was and is this the truth, all I have done is to try to copy existing code lines change them a little bit and paste it where I thought it could be the right place, then pushed the entirely .js file up to my MM2 and tested it. If it doesn’t work I tried an other way and tested it again. So all I do is “Try and Error”, not really coding! But VSCode helps a lot.

Regards
Carsten

xIExodusIx

@rkorell

Hi Ralf,
I just pushed up my reworked version of the module “MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3” to github.
I hope it works for you too.

Regards
Carsten

rkorell

@xIExodusIx Dear Carsten, this is awesome!
Thanks a LOT!
Currently - in my installation - the Info Box which is signalling the call is not a „message-box“ and disappears when call is ended.
Did you modify this -then I would hesitate to install newest version…
Thanks a lot for your effort!
Warmest regards,
Ralf

xIExodusIx

@rkorell said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

Currently - in my installation - the Info Box which is signalling the call is not a „message-box“ and disappears when call is ended.
Did you modify this -then I would hesitate to install newest version…
Thanks a lot for your effort!

Hi Ralf,
I did not change the appearance of the message-box, in the module it is an alert, I only tried to let it disappear right when you answer the incomming call, because on my MM2 the message box blurres the background and I can not clearly see all other modules and the “MMM-Current-Call” module, that also shows me if the current call is incomming or outgoing, but now the message box disappears when the incomming call is answered.
The MMM-Current-Call" module makes only sense if you have more then one telephon-line, so you can see how many people are talking right now, and if the calls are incomming or outgoing.

Hope that will help you to decide.

Regards
Carsten

rkorell

@xIExodusIx Thanks again, this helps!
Regards,
Ralf

xIExodusIx

@rkorell

I played a little bit around with the colors and changed also the appearance of missed calls, the missed calls now will be displayed in color “magenta” with a “star”. You can edit the colors by yourself by editing the “MMM-Fritz-Box-Callmonitor-py3.js” file, you can’t miss these entrys.
I also edited the README.md file again.
I will push these changes to github at my next update, but I have to test a little bit more because I have to wait for the unwanted calls that are in my blocked “phonenumber range list”, and I don’t know when these unwanted calls are incomming.
But hopefully I got most of the annoying problems under control. :-)

Regards
Carsten

rkorell

@xIExodusIx It’s good practise to keep style information not in the *.js code but in the CSS file of module - than everybody can make persistent changes to style related issues in custom.css which will not been overwritten by module updates…

Warm regards,
Ralf

xIExodusIx

@rkorell

Yes, I know, but I don’t know how to transfer this code-lines to the .css file, the code for appaerance and color were in the module.js file before I began to try to get it work. I only modified them.

The last two problems I have with the module is, to show the correct number in the callist, not “sip:myown number”, when an incomming call is blocket by the “number range list” and to hide the alert of these calls.

On these problems I still work.

Regards
Carsten

rkorell

@xIExodusIx Dear Carsten,
quick feedback for you: Just installed your newest version.
And - to my big surprise - it works like I would like to have…
I only have installed "MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 " - to be 100% clear, may there is the difference.
But with only this module incoming calls are displayed/signalled (grey’ish / white color) and the message box disappears either when the call is taken or if the caller hangs up.
This exactly is what I would like to have.
You definitely have done something magical because the initial code holds the message box until call is ended.
THANKS!!!

You ARE a coder :-)

Warmest greetings to Hamburg (as your git-account now reveals),
Ralf

For the CSS stuff - my apologies…
I cannot guide here, as well. I’ve seen your color coding in dependency from call-type.
I GUESS you can solve this with case-dependent CSS-attributes and so avoid the complete “switch”-clause.
But this is far beyond my own capabilities - may Sam (@sdetweil ) can lead through this…

Jose1701

Hi,

I`m new to magicmirror and I like the CallMonitor a lot.

Everthing works fine for me except the arrows and colours. I installed MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call. I put the necessary information in the conifg as ou can see:

{
		module: 'MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call',
		position: 'top_right',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in left or right regions.
		config: {
			showDirection: "true",
			colorEnabled: "true",
		}
			
	},


{
		module: 'MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3',
		position: 'bottom_right',	// This can be any of the regions. Best results in left or right regions.
		header: "Letzte Anrufe", // This is optional
		config: {
			// See 'Configuration options' for more information.
			showContactsStatus: "true",
            	  fritzIP: "192.168.178.1",
            	  showContactsStatus: "true",
            	  maximumCallDistance: "240",
                        maximumCalls: "4",
                        reloadContactsInterval: "1",
			showOutgoing: "true",
			colorEnabled: "true",
                        password: "******",
		}
	},

An idea what am I doing wrong?

Regards

Jose

rkorell

@Jose1701 Dear Jose,
you are referring to my post but may I’m the wrong person.
You may ask the developer, @xIExodusIx, too.

As I’m not knowing exactly what your problem is, I just can guess what’s going on…
from configuration perspective I do not see an issue - mine is similar.
As I wrote before I only have ‘MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3’ in use, NOT ‘MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call’,

For ‘MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3’ I’m aware of some problems, but I do not know if this aligns with your problems.

do you have the right (actual) fork? in my case this was https://github.com/xIExodusIx/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3.git
I’m not sure if this is correct: In your config a username is missing. As far as I’m aware of you have to use a username/password combination - therefore I remember that I had to create a separate user for using the module.
there were some requirements for the module - some python libraries as I remember correctly. - Do you have installed them in a proper version?

This is the “guessing” version.
If you could describe the “problem” more exact or concrete may we get other ideas…

Good luck!
Regards,
Ralf

Jose1701

@rkorell

Hi,

sorry for the late response but I was ill and laying in bed.

I will have a look. Actually I have the following “proofed”.

@rkorell said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

do you have the right (actual) fork? in my case this was https://github.com/xIExodusIx/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3.git

Yes, I’m using this one, too.

@rkorell said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

I’m not sure if this is correct: In your config a username is missing. As far as I’m aware of you have to use a username/password combination - therefore I remember that I had to create a separate user for using the module.

Well, until now I didn’t need more. Everything is working fine except the arrows and colours. But I will see if sth. is needed.

@rkorell said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

there were some requirements for the module - some python libraries as I remember correctly. - Do you have installed them in a proper version?

I think I have the right ones and up to date but I will have a look, too.

Thanks so far.

Kind regards

Jose

Jose1701

said in MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3 and MMM-Callmonitor-Current-Call:

I’m not sure if this is correct: In your config a username is missing. As far as I’m aware of you have to use a username/password combination - therefore I remember that I had to create a separate user for using the module.
Well, until now I didn’t need more. Everything is working fine except the arrows and colours. But I will see if sth. is needed.

That was the reason. Don`t know it shows the calls without a password but not the arrows.

Now everything is working fine.

Thanks a greets

Jose

Mathes75

@xiexodusix - I set up my MagicMirror from scratch and now wanted to integrate the FRITZ-Callmonitor to it, unfortunately with no luck. No calls are displayed, the phonebook has non-stop rotating icon. In the docker logs (Yes, I’m using latest MagicMirrorOS with integrated Docker) I get the following error:

[2026-01-11 02:10:11.646] [ERROR] [app] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception... 
[2026-01-11 02:10:11.684] [ERROR] [app] Error: spawn python3 ENOENT
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:285:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:483:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn python3',
  path: 'python3',
  spawnargs: [
    '/opt/magic_mirror/modules/MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3/fritz_access.py',
    '-i',
    '192.168.0.1',
    '-p',
    '*********',
    '-u',
    'magicmirror'
  ]
} 
[2026-01-11 02:10:11.686] [ERROR] [app] MagicMirror² will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?

As you can see, I have created username and password only for MM.

Starting fritzconnection from (host) commandline works, incomming calls are registered and shown in Terminal.

karsten13

@Mathes75

probably python missing, see https://khassel.gitlab.io/magicmirror/faq/dependencies/#use-the-fat-image

You can change the image in the .env file.

Mathes75

@karsten13 to get this right: Using the fat image would have at least python on board. And to get everything to work I would need to add a script, adding the dependencies for MMM-FRITZ-Box-Callmonitor-py3:

Execute npm install to install the dependencies.
(Optional) Execute sudo apt-get install python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev && sudo pip install --break-system-packages fritzconnection to allow access to your FRITZ!Box phone book and recent calls. This can take a few minutes.

Will definitely give it a try!

Mathes75

Hello @karsten13,
I have changed the docker image to fat in .env file. Unfortunately, after pulling the docker image, the script stopped with error: No such container: 1b169eacdb711[~35 more numbers/letters].
Magic Mirror stopped working :( What did I do wrong?

karsten13

@Mathes75

which script?

show content of “the script” and output of docker compose config