CustomText change contents with notification?

[snerk4000]

hey all. noob time.

from their descriptions, using ModuleScheduler i should be able to change the contents of CustomText via a notification, but it’s a little unclear to me how this is supposed to work.

what the docs seem to describe:

{       module: "MMM-CustomText",
        position: "top_center",
        config: {
                initialMessage: "change with notification?",
                uniqueID: "ct_event",
                animationspeed: 1000,
        },
},
{       module: "MMM-ModuleScheduler",
        config: {
                notification_schedule: [ // sched = cron format
                        { notification: "CUSTOMTEXT_UPDATE", schedule: "33 * * * *", payload: { type: "notification", uniqueID: "ct_event", title: "test 1"}},
                        { notification: "CUSTOMTEXT_UPDATE", schedule: "34 * * * *", payload: { type: "notification", uniqueID: "ct_event", title: "test 2"}},
                ]

        }
},

which is clearly not correct because it does nothing, but i’m stuck as to why. any help is appreciated!

[sdetweil]

@snerk4000 and you have the schedule set to fire at 33 or 34 minutes after the hour

Only once every hour for each, right?

If you install MMM-Notifications you should able to see it.

The payload looks ok. Doesn’t need the type: only the values the receiving module would accept/need

You could try my MMM-CurlToNotification module to test the notification without schedule
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-CurlToNotification

[snerk4000]

@sdetweil right now the 33/34 mins were just for testing, it’s aiming to be more like an MOTD / “don’t forget to put the trash out tonight” sort of thing

[sdetweil]

@snerk4000 understood. I only mention that cause once an hour is hard to test

Trying to give you other ways to test and verify