SOLVED Compliments not displaying

jin

Hi,
I am totally new to the programming world and was wondering if I could get some instruction on how to add compliments to magic mirror.
This is what i’ve got in my config file

{
        module: 'compliments',
        position: 'lower_third',
        config: {
                updateInterval: 30000,
                compliments: {
                        morning: [
                        'Good morning, sunshine!'
                                        ],
                        afternoon: [
                       'Looking good today!'
                                        ],
                        evening: [
                                'Wasn't the sunset beautiful?',
                                'You look nice!'
                                ]
                        }
                }
        },

Magic Mirror starts up fine but compliments never show, have I messed something up?

cowboysdude

@jin just put this in your config.js:

              {
			module: 'compliments',
			position: 'lower_third'
		},

l1613532

Compliments not working for me either. On Raspberry Pi Zero W running Jesse Lite. Used Wieber’s guide to get it running (https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero).

By default 'compliments" file does not output to the MM although all other default modules working.
@cowboysdude : the default config.js is set up the way you described and it still does not work.

Also edited config.js to place config: { compliments… and manually install compliments similar to what @jin has done but still no output on the MM.

No errors or crashes and the later modules after compliments still work.

cowboysdude

You guys would need to post your entire config.js file minus any KEYS you have in there…

strawberry 3.141

@jin you either have to escape your single quote inside the string or use double quotes

evening: [
  'Wasn\'t the sunset beautiful?',
  'You look nice!'
]

evening: [
  "Wasn't the sunset beautiful?",
  'You look nice!'
]

jin

thanks for the replys guys
@cowboysdude it still doesnt show any compliments

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 
*
 
* By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 
* MIT Licensed.
 */



var config = {

	port: 8080,

	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"],


	language: 'en',

	timeFormat: 24,

	units: 'metric',



	modules: [

		{

			module: 'alert',

		},

		{

			module: "updatenotification",

			position: "top_bar"

		},

		{

			module: 'clock',

			position: 'top_left'

		},

		{

			module: 'calendar',

			header: 'UK Holidays',

			position: 'top_left',

			config: {

				calendars: [

					{

						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',

						url: 'webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/UK-Holidays.ics'

					},

					{

						url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/private/basic.ics'

					}

				]

			}

		},

		{
			module: 'compliments',
			position: 'bottom_center',
			config: {
				updateInterval: 30000,
				compliments: {
					morning: [
					'Good morning, sunshine!'
					],
					afternoon: [
					'Looking good today!'
					],
					evening: [
					'Wasn\'t the sunset beautiful?',
					'You look nice!'
					]
				}
			}
		},

		{

			module: 'currentweather',

			position: 'top_right',

			config: {

				location: 'New York',

				locationID: '2643741',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org

				appid: 'removed'

			}

		},

		{

			module: 'weatherforecast',

			position: 'top_right',

			header: 'Weather Forecast',

			config: {

				location: 'New York',

				locationID: '2643741',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org

				appid: 'removed'

			}

		},

		{

			module: 'newsfeed',

			position: 'bottom_bar',

			config: {

				feeds: [

					{

						title: "BBC News",

						url: "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml"

					}

				],

				showSourceTitle: true,

				showPublishDate: true

			}

		},

	]


};


/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/

if (typeof module !== 'undefined') {module.exports = config;}

this is the whole config file.

strawberry 3.141

@jin the config looks good, I’m receiving the compliments with this. Can you check for errors in the electron console (npm start dev)? and the terminal?

l1613532

@strawberry-3.141
This is the log file when I run: npm start dev

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ ‘/usr/local/bin/node’, ‘/usr/local/bin/npm’, ‘start’, ‘dev’ ]
2 info using npm@2.14.7
3 info using node@v4.2.1
4 verbose run-script [ ‘prestart’, ‘start’, ‘poststart’ ]
5 info prestart magicmirror@2.1.0
6 info start magicmirror@2.1.0
7 verbose unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 info magicmirror@2.1.0 Failed to exec start script
9 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.1.0 start: electron js/electron.js "dev"
9 verbose stack spawn ENOENT
9 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:17:16)
9 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
9 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
9 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:818:16)
9 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)
10 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.1.0
11 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
12 error Linux 4.4.50+
13 error argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “start” “dev”
14 error node v4.2.1
15 error npm v2.14.7
16 error file sh
17 error code ELIFECYCLE
18 error errno ENOENT
19 error syscall spawn
20 error magicmirror@2.1.0 start: electron js/electron.js "dev"
20 error spawn ENOENT
21 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.0 start script ‘electron js/electron.js “dev”’.
21 error This is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
21 error not with npm itself.
21 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
21 error electron js/electron.js “dev”
21 error You can get their info via:
21 error npm owner ls magicmirror
21 error There is likely additional logging output above.
22 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

sorry, I’m also new to programming. Any ideas for next step?

jin

@strawberry-3.141 all i get when i run npm start dev is

> magicmirror@2.1.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
>electron js/electron.js "dev"

no log file or anything

l1613532

Probably not a coincidence, but both @jin and I are using raspberry pi zero ‘W’ with midori as our browser.