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

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