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    • yo-less
      yo-less Module Developer last edited by

      Hey everyone, I’m currently developing a local transport module and I would love for the module to auto-disable itself at night when there are no tram connections, is there any way to tell a module to disable itself when a certain condition is met? Would love to hear your ideas 🙂

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      • yo-less
        yo-less Module Developer last edited by

        Alright, I’ve just figured it out, whenever the API returns an empty connections array, I simply don’t start generating a table via getDom, works like a charm 🙂

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        • KirAsh4
          KirAsh4 Moderator last edited by

          You can also set a timer in it that calls .hide() or .show() at set times during a 24 hour period. This is cleaner as you won’t know if the API will always return an empty array when there are no trains running.

          A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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          • yo-less
            yo-less Module Developer last edited by

            Nice solution, thanks man!

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            • yo-less
              yo-less Module Developer last edited by

              Could you point me in the right direction as to how I could hide a complete module with a .hide() call?

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              • R
                ronny3050 Module Developer last edited by ronny3050

                First send a notification from your main module.js to node_helper.js to ask it to look for the time of day.
                Something like in your main module.js:

                start: function(){
                        this.sendSocketNotification('LookForTime');
                }
                

                In your node_helper.js, you could check for the time. Once you see that it is night, you can send a socket notification to your main module.js file like:

                socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload){
                         if(notification === 'LookForTime'){
                                  // Keep checking for time. Once night,
                                 if(night){
                                            this.sendSocketNotification('NIGHT');
                                 }
                       }
                }
                

                In your main module.js:

                socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload){
                      if(notification === 'NIGHT'){
                            this.hide();
                      }
                }
                
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                • yo-less
                  yo-less Module Developer @ronny3050 last edited by

                  @ronny3050 Impressive response, thank you!

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                    ronny3050 Module Developer @yo-less last edited by

                    @yo-less No problem! If you have any issues, I’ll be glad to answer them on chat 🙂

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                    • KirAsh4
                      KirAsh4 Moderator last edited by

                      No need to use node helper for that. All modules can use 'moment.js' as it’s already in the code (for the time display, calendar, and various timers.) So write your code in the main module’s js file.

                      moment.now() gives you the current time.

                      Take a gander at my calendar_monthly module where I keep track of time for the refreshes. The calendar DOM only refreshes once a day, at midnight. However, because browsers tend to get “stuck” every so often during the day, I also keep track of the hours. What that means is, there is a “heartbeat” every hour to stay accurate to the actual time. If the browser got stuck and the clock delayed by a few seconds, the heartbeat will fix that every 60 minutes. Then, only when it reaches midnight, will it actually reload the DOM.

                      In the code, look at the 'start' function where I set the time till next midnight. Then I fire off a scheduleUpdate() which sets a delay to the next hour. When that timer expires, a couple of things happen:

                      1. it checks whether the current time is past the midnight set earlier. If so,
                      • it will reload the DOM (which refreshes the calendar display),
                      • it will calculate the next midnight
                      • it will reset the timer to the next hour
                      • it will loop back to scheduleUpdate()
                        OR
                      1. if the current time is LESS than midnight,
                      • it will reset the timer to the next hour
                      • it will loop back to scheduleUpdate()
                        … and the DOM never gets touched.

                      This way I don’t reload the calendar unnecessarily throughout the day. It only happens once, but the timer fires off every hour, just to keep track of time. If I didn’t do that, at least on my rpi, I noticed the browser’s time will drift by several minutes in a 24 hour period.

                      A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                        ronny3050 Module Developer @KirAsh4 last edited by

                        @KirAsh4’s solution is much neater and elegant. He never ceases to amaze me! 😃

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