MMM-SL how to trigger update?

Baxer

On the Module MMM-SL’s github it says
“updateNotification The notification to listen for. If received then will trigger update of departure times.”
and
“I recommend that you don’t update it with a timer, otherwise you will see that after a while you will get an error message instead. The recommended way is to trigger the update either with a button or similiar.”

but i have no idea how to actually trigger the update and i havent found any guidance on how to do it on the modules github,
if anyone got the answer it would be to great help

Mykle1

@Baxer

I don’t know if this will help you but it’s worth looking into I think.
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1575/mmm-buttons-connect-multiple-buttons-to-send-configurable-notifications

Perhaps @Jopyth can be of some help in that topic

Baxer

@Mykle1 thanks for the tips unfortunately i dont have a button to test this with.

Jopyth

@Mykle1 Thanks for mentioning.

@Baxer If you do not have a button, you could use a custom URL together with the Remote-Control (you need to install and configure the module though, do not forget to adapt your IP whitelist). Then you can send a notification request via an URL by accessing a custom URL.

In your case the URL would probably look like this:
http://192.168.xxx.xxx:8080/remote?notification=UPDATE_SL&action=NOTIFICATION

Or you could change the module to use a timer, but I assume the author of the module had a good reason for not doing that.

Mykle1

@Jopyth

You’re awesome!

Baxer

@Jopyth Holy shit it works, thanks man
the reason the author doesnt think the timer is a good idea its because the API have an maximum amount of calls you can make in a month which is 30 000, but if i wanted to go against his advice and make it update every 5 minute or so, how would i do that

Baxer

@Jopyth I figured it out myself but thanks for the help, i used MMM-ModuleScheduler and put this

                 {
        module: 'MMM-ModuleScheduler',
        config: {
            notification_schedule: {
                notification: 'UPDATE_SL',
                schedule: '*/5 * * * *',
                payload: {
                    type: "UPDATE_SL",
                    title: 'sl!',
                    action: "notification"
                }
            }
        }

to make it update every 5 minutes

Mykle1

@Baxer said in MMM-SL how to trigger update?:

Jopyth Holy shit it works, thanks man

I told you he was awesome!