Python in to the magic mirror.

[paulvanderheijden90]

@sean
Hello Sean, Again thank you very much for you’re valued help!.

I spend yesterday after midday and evening with a friend figure out how you’re code is working. and we did some tests to send also somthing back to the Node helper and alote came clear by you’re example.
So realy thank u very much.

To day I spend my morning figure out one last problem the text on the screen is [ Object ArrayBuffer] and not the string I put true the stdout.write.
The text that is displayed on the screen is :

I did some debugging of my own. and wenn I override the data in the node helper just after it come from the spawn function this is displayed on the mirror. so the code is working until the spawn function.

/// node_helper.js

const spawn = require("child_process").spawn

var NodeHelper = require("node_helper")



module.exports = NodeHelper.create({

  socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) {

    switch(notification) {

      case "GIVE_ME_DATA":

        this.job()

        break

    }

  },

  job: function() {

    var process = spawn("python", ["/home/pi/src/test.py"])

    process.stdout.on("data", (data)=>{
	data= "test hello World"
      console.log(data)

      this.sendSocketNotification("HERE_IS_DATA", data)

    })

  }

})

So i tested also the python test project. and wenn I run it in the terminal it give no error. so the python project is fine aswell I think.

import sys


sys.stdout.write("Hallo Ik ben Paul")

So I think the spawn function is not correct at this time?
Can you help me out one more time please?

[A Former User]

@paulvanderheijden90 said in Python in to the magic mirror.:

Object ArrayBuffer

is one of javascript Object type. not text itself. (Sorry for my prior example. it needs to be converted from Object to HTMLText.)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer

process.stdout.on("data", (data)=>{
  console.log(data) 
  // You can see the structure of this `data` object(ArrayBuffer) on the shell terminal.

  var result = String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint16Array((data))
  // You need to convert or filter or manipulate `data` object whatever for your real usage.

  this.sendSocketNotification("HERE_IS_DATA", result)
 })

[paulvanderheijden90]

@Sean Hello Sean,
I was thinking somting was wrong because I see the buffer printing in the terminal showing:

Buffer 48 61 6c 6c 6f 20 49 6b 20 62 65 6e 20 50 61 75 6c>

i was trying to figure out the text line that it was representing but it was not showing something.

So im happy you came up with the solution for the buffer.

Unfortunly wenn at the var result code the magic mirror is crashing again and im not able to debug.
Can you please heave a look at it

/// node_helper.js

const spawn = require("child_process").spawn

var NodeHelper = require("node_helper")



module.exports = NodeHelper.create({

  socketNotificationReceived: function(notification, payload) {

    switch(notification) {

      case "GIVE_ME_DATA":

        this.job()

        break

    }

  },

  job: function() {

    var process = spawn("python", ["/home/pi/src/test.py"])

    process.stdout.on("data", (data)=>{
	
      console.log(data)

      var result = String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint16Array((data))

      this.sendSocketNotification("HERE_IS_DATA", result)

    })

  }

[A Former User]

@paulvanderheijden90
Crashing? show me the error log.

[paulvanderheijden90]

@sean said in Python in to the magic mirror.:

Crashing? show me th

App threw an error during load
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-P2000/node_helper.js:76
}.call(this, exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname); });
                                                            ^

SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
    at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:606:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:653:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:561:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:504:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:496:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:586:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at loadModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:127:17)
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-P2000/node_helper.js:76
}.call(this, exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname); });
                                                            ^

SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list
    at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:606:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:653:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:561:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:504:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:496:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:586:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at loadModule (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:127:17)
MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
Launching application.

[A Former User]

@paulvanderheijden90 said in Python in to the magic mirror.:
Your log is telling you what is wrong.
See the 76 line of node_helper.js. There could be missing ) after argument list.

[paulvanderheijden90]

@sean So sorry you’re totally right… I was little bit confused by all the “at” conclusens.
Im sorry I could had fixed that. And I did !

Now it is working !!!
So very nice ! im going to put this in my P2000 Raspberry python Programma. and will heave a lot of play with it.

I will post/ show you the and result !

[paulvanderheijden90]

Hello @Sean,
Again thank you for the help. As I say after your help it was possible for me to “print” a string variable on the magic mirror module through python.
But is was not able to put my P2000 alarm from the fire department on my screen. I noticed that it was a problem in the python script of the alarm.
I used the stdout.write function again. like you told me. but I needed to add the flush function as wel.
so now it is

sys.stdout.write("hallo ik ben Paul")
sys.stdout.flush()

And then it was working !
so thank you and here the result:

[paulvanderheijden90]

@sean
Hello Sean,
like I posted yesterday the app is running now. And it is showing wat I need to display. So im very happy.

But…
After a time ( more after a couple of runs ) the magic mirror app is crashed and freezed. So noting is updating any more.

My feeling is telling that the buffer were I put in the string value is filling up.

wenn i run the python script without the mirror it is running fine.

Please can you give me a help?

[A Former User]

@paulvanderheijden90
I have no idea about Python. I think you’d better reboot once or twice per daily to maintain RPI to be stable. You can do it with cron automatically.
The better approach would be implementing your job as native nodeJS MagicMirror module instead external python script.