Third Party Modules Don't Work Please Help

zzaidi148

Hello all,
I’m a total noob to coding and magicmirror. I’ve got my mm working perfectly with the default modules. but for some reason when I add 3rd party modules, it all fails and says your config doesnt work. I download the module into MagicMirror/modules and not in default. I also added the config to config.js in every place imaginable and never got it to work. Please, if you can help, speel it out to me because I’m a total noob! My config is below. I tried it with many modules besides this google maps one that is at the bottom. The same result occured.

//var config = {
	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",

	modules: [
		{
			module: "alert",
		},
		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar"
		},
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left"
		},
		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "US Holidays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check-o ",
						url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third"
		},
		{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "Dallas",
				locationID: "4684888",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "private"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				location: "Dallas",
				locationID: "4684888",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "private"
			}
		},
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
	]

};
var config = {
    modules: [
        {
            module: 'MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic',
            config: {
                key: 'YOUR_KEY',
                lat: 37.8262306,
                lng: -122.2920096,
                height: '300px',
                width: '300px'
            }
        }
    ]
}

	

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

cowboysdude

@zzaidi148 said in Third Party Modules Don’t Work Please Help:

//var config

should be

var config take the // away

Mykle1

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4231/how-to-add-modules-for-absolute-beginners

cowboysdude

Rule of thumb for new guys/gals…

Add one module at a time… if your config works then back it up before adding something else that way you have a working config… always

Bob

remove the second instance of

var config = (
module : [

]
}

at the bottom of the file

zzaidi148

@cowboysdude I tried with only one module and it failed

cowboysdude

@zzaidi148 It’s okay it’s how we learn We’ve all been there… if you try to get one module working and it doesn’t then post what you’ve done so we can help you…

We don’t mind … like I said we ALL had to learn and there is no such thing as a stupid question ever. I personally don’t care if you have to ask the same question 1000 times… I or someone else will answer you.

My education is in Education Just remember… whatever question you ask someone else may benefit from it too!

Mykle1

@zzaidi148 said in Third Party Modules Don’t Work Please Help:

I tried with only one module and it failed

Your default config works, yes?

Bob

Ho hum, I got bored, so…

@zzaidi148 here you go, below is your working code.

As was said above, you needed to remove the // from var config, and the extra config section at the end. I also tidied up the code (putting spaces between modules to make them easier to read), and added some extra commas (because I tend to anyway) . You just need to replace the API keys with the correct ones and the code below will work.

var config = {

	address: "localhost", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",

	modules: [
	
		{
			module: "alert",
		},

		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar",
		},

		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left",
		},

		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "US Holidays",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check-o",
						url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics",
					}
				]
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third",
		},
		
		{
			module: "currentweather",
			position: "top_right",
			config: {
				location: "Dallas",
				locationID: "4684888",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "private",
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: "weatherforecast",
			position: "top_right",
			header: "Weather Forecast",
			config: {
				location: "Dallas",
				locationID: "4684888",  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt
				appid: "private",
			}
		},
		
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
        
        {
            module: 'MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic',
            config: {
                key: 'YOUR_KEY',
                lat: 37.8262306,
                lng: -122.2920096,
                height: '300px',
                width: '300px',
            },
        },

	]
};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

zzaidi148

@Mykle1 yes