Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
How to add modules. For absolute beginners.
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@sdetweil - thanks! Unfortunately, still no luck on adding // at the start of the line, or after ‘timezone:’. According to the module creator, the timezone is a required field. I went to the php website that the module creator refers to, but it just doesn’t make sense to me - the coding information on that website is vast and much too advanced for me. I may have to abandon my desire to add this particular module. :-(
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@TheSij said in How to add modules. For absolute beginners.:
I may have to abandon my desire to add this particular module.
Don’t give up! I just installed this to test it for you. I can see why it was confusing for you but it does work. Here is my config entry. Use it as a template for yours, replacing your info for mine. The following screenshot shows it working.
{ module: 'MMM-PrayerTime', position: 'top_center', // This can be any of the regions. Best result is in the top_left/top_right. config: { apiVersion: '1.0', // please, leave unchanged. reserved for future use. lat: myLat, // latitude of your position (city) lon: myLong, // longitude of your position (city) timezone: 'Europe/London', // please refer to http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php // timeFormat: 24, method: 5, playAdzan: ['fajr', 'dhuhr', 'asr', 'maghrib', 'isha'], notDisplayed: ['midnight', 'sunset'], useUpdateInterval: true, updateInterval: 86400 * 1000, // How often do you want to fetch new praying time? (milliseconds) animationSpeed: 2.5 * 1000, // Speed of the update animation. (milliseconds) // language: config.language, showAdzanAlert: true, showTomorrow: true, vertical: true, // set false for horizontal view alertTimer: 15000 } }, -
@Mykle1 thx!
so the original problem was the timezone wasn’t quoted.
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@sdetweil said in How to add modules. For absolute beginners.:
so the original problem was the timezone wasn’t quoted.
That and
language: config.language,was causing an error. I simply commented it out and the module uses the config language by default. :-)Edit: Oh, and
timeFormat: 24,in the module’s config entry, as well. Again, I commented it out as it was redundant. -
@Mykle1 yep, didn’t see that right… because the javascript source code processor is in the process of reading the config object definition
var config= {the config object is not yet defined. so config.language cannot exist (yet)
but the timeFormat can be present AND redundant and not cause a startup error
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@Mykle1 thanks to you and @sdetweil for helping me with this. It’s much appreciated. Deep down I’m reluctant to give up, because I don’t like quitting. I’ve literally just copied your config entry, and simply adding my own lat/lon figures. But now the MagicMirror shows up as a blank black screen and the window is named ‘Electron’, rather than ‘MagicMirror2’.
I’m checking, double-checking and triple-checking and I can’t see where the discrepancy is compared to your entry. Could having too many modules be an issue? Can I also check - both of you have commented that the ‘timezone’ is causing an error, but your config entry doesn’t show that it’s commented out…?
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@TheSij how do you start MM? npm start, or pm2 start ?
if npm start, look at the messages shown in the terminal window after the npm start, or better yet, redirect the messages to a file, so you can look at them later
npm start >somefile 2>&1
(same as on windows)if pm2, then pm2 logs --lines=100 should display the messages…
black screen,m typically means some library required by a module is not loaded, usually because of a missed install step for the module…
the area u read on github, is the same as the file README.md after the git clone, so you can look at the instructionsgit clone
cd modulename
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@sdetweil - this is the log when I started MM just now…
0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'start' ] 2 info using npm@6.14.7 3 info using node@v10.19.0 4 verbose stack Error: missing script: start 4 verbose stack at run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/run-script.js:155:19) 4 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/run-script.js:63:5 4 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:116:5 4 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:436:5 4 verbose stack at checkBinReferences_ (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:391:45) 4 verbose stack at final (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:434:3) 4 verbose stack at then (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:161:5) 4 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read-package-json/read-json.js:382:12 4 verbose stack at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:123:16 4 verbose stack at FSReqWrap.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (internal/fs/read_file_context.js:53:3) 5 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-soccer 6 verbose Linux 4.19.118-v7l+ 7 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start" 8 verbose node v10.19.0 9 verbose npm v6.14.7 10 error missing script: start 11 verbose exit [ 1, true ] -
@TheSij said in How to add modules. For absolute beginners.:
tack Error: missing script: start
5 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-soccerwhat did you type?
the command is
cd ~/MagicMirror npm startto run MM, you must start from the MagicMirror folder… not a module folder, not the users home folder…
if you use pm2, it will issue the right commands from the right place
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@sdetweil - apologies, I was in the wrong directory. This is the terminal response…
> magicmirror@2.12.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror > DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js [2020-07-27 22:56:11.226] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.12.0 [2020-07-27 22:56:11.233] [LOG] Loading config ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.238] [LOG] Loading module helpers ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.240] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.290] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.291] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification [2020-07-27 22:56:11.291] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.643] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.644] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar [2020-07-27 22:56:11.645] [LOG] No helper found for module: currentweather. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.646] [LOG] No helper found for module: weatherforecast. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.678] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.678] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed [2020-07-27 22:56:11.679] [LOG] No helper found for module: MMM-TFL. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.681] [ERROR] WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: Cannot find module 'async' Require stack: - /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PrayerTime/node_helper.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js - [2020-07-27 22:56:11.682] [LOG] Loading module helpers ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.683] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.683] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.684] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification [2020-07-27 22:56:11.684] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.685] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.685] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar [2020-07-27 22:56:11.685] [LOG] No helper found for module: currentweather. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.686] [LOG] No helper found for module: weatherforecast. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.686] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.686] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed [2020-07-27 22:56:11.687] [LOG] No helper found for module: MMM-TFL. [2020-07-27 22:56:11.688] [ERROR] App threw an error during load [2020-07-27 22:56:11.689] [ERROR] Error: Cannot find module 'async' Require stack: - /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PrayerTime/node_helper.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js - at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:627:15) at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:41:16) at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/module-alias/index.js:49:29) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:27) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:685:19) at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PrayerTime/node_helper.js:9:13) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:786:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:798:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:645:32) [2020-07-27 22:56:11.690] [ERROR] Whoops! There was an uncaught exception... [2020-07-27 22:56:11.690] [ERROR] Error: Cannot find module 'async' Require stack: - /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PrayerTime/node_helper.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js - /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js - at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:627:15) at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:41:16) at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/module-alias/index.js:49:29) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:27) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:685:19) at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PrayerTime/node_helper.js:9:13) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:786:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:798:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:645:32) { code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND', requireStack: [ '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PrayerTime/node_helper.js', '/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js', '/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js', '/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js', undefined ] } [2020-07-27 22:56:11.696] [ERROR] MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection? [2020-07-27 22:56:11.697] [ERROR] If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues [2020-07-27 22:56:11.814] [LOG] Launching application.
