Third Party Modules Don't Work Please Help

[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

[zzaidi148]

@cowboysdude Very true. Thanks for the encouragement and help!

[zzaidi148]

@Bob OMG thank you so much. Ok, so I pasted your working code with the api keys and everything worked and it booted up except the google maps traffic module. I’m right now working in landscape mode if that helps. When I started the mirror, it said that there were no helpers found for google maps. don’t know whether I missed something in the install of the module.